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University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
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Tater Town worth saving Instead of allowing Tater Town to go on the auction block, Broward County Commissioners ought to find a grant to create an historic site. I discovered this wonderful fruit and vegetable stand when I moved here in 1961 and have...Tags: Science and Technology, Parties and Movements, Auction Service, Colleges and Universities, Politics
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If we didn't spend so much on defense there'd be more money for things we really need
I don't understand why taxes keep going up. They say it's for schools and infrastructure, but if the United States would just cut back on military spending, the money for schools and roads would be there without having to raise taxes on Americans. We... -
Beer, baseball and Baltimore
This is a tale about Baltimore beer barons, the owner of the Washington Senators, a silver bullet, and how the Orioles got to Baltimore. Now, with the O's generating a buzz as they fight for first place in the American League East and prepare to meet...
Tags: Clark Griffith, The Washington Post, Companies and Corporations, College Sports, Radio
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America must re-earn its exceptional quality
Mitt Romney often speaks of America's "exceptionalism." Perhaps he should stop. Our self-satisfaction has made us unwilling or unable to recognize the challenges of technological chance and global competition. We're not No. 1 in anything except guns,...Tags: Science and Technology, Macungie, John F. Kennedy, Mitt Romney, Prisons
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All the way with LBJ
WASHINGTON -- Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president's casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kennedy's kept historian, convened a lunch at...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Washington, DC, White House
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May Day: A complicated path from massacre to workers to loyalty
Politics makes strange bedfellows and even stranger ironies. Take May Day, a holiday that was as much born in the U.S.A. as Bruce Springsteen but was spurned by Americans in the 20th century because the elites feared it was too radical. If you think...
Tags: Massacres, Holidays, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Manhattan (New York City), Occupy Wall Street
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State wrestles with highway names
The state Transportation Commission faces a difficult question of whether to change its policy on naming highways. At issue is whether Interstate 90 across South Dakota should be designated as part of a nationwide project honoring all men and women...Tags: Watertown, Conservation, George Washington, Environmental Issues, U.S. Military
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Should I-90 be the Purple Heart Trail?
PIERRE — The state Transportation Commission faces a difficult question of whether to change its policy on naming highways. At issue is whether Interstate 90 across South Dakota should be designated as part of a nationwide project honoring all...Tags: Watertown, George Washington, U.S. Military, Highway Transportation
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Lincoln Highway experience to host 'Pennsylvania's Roads'
The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor will present "Pennsylvania's Roads: From the Lincoln to Eisenhower" at 2 p.m. March 11 at the Lincoln Highway Experience, 3435 Route 30 East, near Kingston Dam in Latrobe.
Presenter Jeffrey Kitsko is an expert on the...Tags: Highway Transportation
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Morris Tischler, who invented an early transistorized pacemaker, dies
Morris Tischler, a retired science teacher who invented a 1950s transistorized cardiac pacemaker, died of respiratory failure March 9 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.
He was born in Newark, N.J., but when his father's real estate business failed in the...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities, Mayo Clinic
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