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3 hrs ago | Fox News

Job Woes Send Workers Back to School

Monday, September 01, 2008 Ruth Mantell MarketWatch WASHINGTON--The grim outlook for the labor market has been leading more workers to reassess their career options.

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7 hrs ago | Mass High Tech

Broad Institute

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University , a Cambridge research center that focuses on the use of genomics in medicine, has received a $400 million endowment from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe ...

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Non-Profit

11 hrs ago | Ledger Dispatch

Emeryville schools superintendent's glowing resume embellished

The Emery Unified school board voted in a two-hour closed session Wednesday to accept the resignation of Superintendent Stephen Wesley following media reports that he had lied about degrees and other ...

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Related Topix: University of Chicago, Emeryville, CA, San Francisco Metro, Education Etc.

20 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Book chronicles death, faith and reburial in the Civil War

Families waited for months and years for news about their missing sons, brothers and fathers.

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Related Topix: North Carolina

Wed Sep 03, 2008

English Dong-A

Ex-U.S. Pres. Nominee Dukakis Backs Obama

Former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis says he supports Barack Obama for president.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Northeastern University, UC Los Angeles, 2008 Presidential Election

Indianapolis Recorder

Captain Obama out to save the republic

Some believe Barack Obama, noted for his powerful, inspiring, and dynamic speeches, promoting hope and change has somehow turned from the Illinois senator with a down to earth personality and magnetism, into ...

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Related Topix: Illinois, Illinois Government, Butler University, Columbia University, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election

Groong Armenian News Network

Prf Russell Lecture at NAASR on Slavic/Armenian Folklore Connections

From : Marc Mamigonian Date : Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:00:58 -0700 PRESS RELEASE National Association for Armenian Studies and Research 395 Concord Ave.

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Related Topix: Belmont, MA, World News, Russia, Asia

Tue Sep 02, 2008

Toledo Blade

Paying for grades

IN AN ideal world, happy, well-fed students from nurturing, supportive families would rush to school each day, eager to quench their thirst for knowledge.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Education Etc., Teenagers, Opinion

Boston.com

First come, first served

Emerson College student David Koenig was walking to work in Cambridge recently when he spotted a computer desk that someone had discarded on a street near Harvard Square.

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Related Topix: Newton, MA, Emerson College, Cambridge, MA, Brookline, MA, Boston, MA

Guardian Unlimited

The world is becoming a happier place

Over the past 25 years, economic growth in developing countries has translated into big increases in happiness, but people in richer countries have seen much more modest improvements James Randerson Despite ...

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Mon Sep 01, 2008

This Is Bolton

Portman shows off directorial debut

A screening of the movie marking Natalie Portman's debut as a director opened the short films section of the Venice Film Festival.

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment

PR-inside.com

Major Announcement About the Broad Institute Thursday, Sept. 4, 9:15am - Noon ET

There will be a half-hour break between the event and the media teleconference to allow media transition and set-up in the conference room.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Deval Patrick, US Governors

The Enid News

Being ready in the job description

By Jeff Mullin Senior Writer Report cards are a big part of Col. Mark C. Nowland's life.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, United States Air Force Academy, Air Force Academy, CO, Vance Air Force Base

Sun Aug 31, 2008

The Real Estate Bloggers

the Gingham Dress - a Parable For Real Estate Agents

If you are a real estate agent, read this, it may make you a big commission. THE GINGHAM DRESS A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in ...

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Related Topix: Real Estate

Montana Standard

Bribery or good idea?

In a perfect world, children clamor to go to school for the sheer exhilaration of learning.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Opinion

Themonitor.com

Are you a racist? Harvard knows

Are you a racist? Harvard University researchers claim they can tell with the help of a test.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, Illinois Government

Sat Aug 30, 2008

The Honolulu Advertiser

Sister sees mom's spirit in Obama - to dream big

DENVER - Maya Soetoro-Ng, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's younger sister, honored their mother last night as a sturdy woman and an eternal optimist who challenged them to explore.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, Illinois Government, US Senate, Democrat, US House of Representatives, Neil Abercrombie

The Wire

an undying thirst

When guitarist Randy Armstrong first met flutist Ken LaRoche in 1974, Armstrong was studying North Indian music on sitar.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Punk, D.O.a., Music, Entertainment

Boston.com

Harvard warns students, staff after woman is attacked

Harvard University police sent out a notice to students and staff alerting them of an attack on a woman walking through Harvard Yard early yesterday morning.

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Fri Aug 29, 2008

National Post

Academics fear speaking freely in Canada

A group of U. S. professors launched a campaign this week protesting plans by a prominent political science organization to hold its annual conference in Toronto next year, claiming that Canada's restrictions ...

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Related Topix: Saint Vincent College, Princeton University

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