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READER SUBMITTED: Copes Named To The Founding Faculty Of The Frank H. Netter MD School Of Medicine At Quinnipiac
HamdenLynn E. Copes, of New Haven, has been appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. As an Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, Copes will teach anatomy to students at Connecticut's newest...Tags: Students, Physiology, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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New AP prep tool: pancakes
"Good luck AP test takers" scrolled across Costa Mesa High School's electronic marquee Friday morning. At Newport-Mesa Unified high schools this week, Advanced Placement classes culminated with exams that will determine whether students receive college...Tags: Students, Mountains, Foods and Beverages, Science and Technology, Pancakes
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Eating bugs: Would you dine on cicadas? Crickets? Buttered beetles?
Mmmm. Just look at that plump little cicada. Can you imagine plucking it off its leaf and popping it in your mouth? Too much? How about after it's flash fried with a little butter, garlic and sea salt? Face it, America. We're inch-worming our way closer...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, United Nations, Sports, Culture
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Exclusive: Brazil's Rousseff sides with farmers in Indian land fight
ReutersBRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered her government to stop confiscating farmland to create new Indian reservations, government officials say, a policy reversal with major implications for one of the world's top...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Justice System, Interior Policy, Politics
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'Cultural Politics of Seeds' at UCLA on May 17
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women will be presenting a symposium on the "Cultural Politics of Seeds" on May 17, as part of the Life (Un)Ltd project which explores the impact of recent developments in biotechnology and biosciences on feminist studies....
Tags: Arts, Medical Specialization, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Cultural Development
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Cannibalism, Museum of Natural History, Colonial Williamsburg, Dismemberment
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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement in Jamestown
Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism. On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Museum of Natural History, Colonial Williamsburg, Museums, Historic Jamestowne
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Pro-migrant caravan leaves Calexico for cross country trip
Staff Writer, Copy EditorHOLTVILLE – Blamed for everything from high rates of unemployment to crime, illegal immigration has increasingly been a concern for the public as well as public officials. Yet it isn’t exclusively an American or Mexican problem. “To...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Human Rights, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology, Washington, DC
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Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....
Tags: Ethics, Colleges and Universities, University of Miami, Conservation, Endangered Species
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Guest column: Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field
Anthropology has been in the news quite a bit lately. The New York Times recently profiled Napoleon Chagnon on the eve of the publication of his memoir, "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists."...Tags: CBS Corp., Zora Neale Hurston, The New York Times, Emily Deschanel, Sports Illustrated
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Going for a spin of Cal State
Almost before he had taken his last spin, there was a video posted on YouTube of Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White break dancing in front of hundreds of appreciative students at the Dominguez Hills campus. It follows the video of him...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Riverside, Students, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Human Rights, Arts, Pneumonia, Museum of Modern Art, Politics
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