"Filling a book bag with a course-load of college textbooks will weigh not only on a student's shoulders, but on his or her wallet," The Wall Street Journal reports. "The situation has led Congress to step in, and on Thursday it passed the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Among its provisions, the bill requires publishers to share pricing information with professors and forces them to unbundle packages of textbooks and supplementary materials so students can buy only items they need. President George W. Bush is expected to sign the bill. Government intervention isn't the only way cash-strapped students can improve their odds of affording their textbooks. Here are more ways to save."