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UMBC students use new media to document a dying industrial past
When Eddie Bartee started working at the Sparrows Point steel mill in 1955, about 35,000 men toiled at the eastern Baltimore County plant. Over the next four decades, he made a comfortable life for his wife and their six children as he moved through the...
Tags: Baltimore County, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Teaching and Learning, Plant Openings, Science and Technology
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Mexicans now have a bone to pick over relics of revered heroes
MEXICO CITY -- In the run-up to Mexico’s bicentennial celebration of independence from Spain, then-President Felipe Calderon oversaw an elaborate parade to escort the bones of the nation’s founding fathers from their resting place at Mexico...Tags: Mexico City, Felipe Calderon, Culture, Mexico, Arts and Culture
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Shaped from clay: The rapidly evolving pottery of Mata Ortiz, Mexico
MATA ORTIZ, Mexico —The place felt so familiar. The air was dry and warm and slightly smoky. Streets were unpaved, rutted, edged with weeds below ramshackle wooden fences. Swaybacked horses and muscled pickup trucks dueled for right of way on the...
Tags: Arts, Artists, Culture, Museums, Travel Alerts
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Heart of Danville hires director
smojica@amnews.comThe Heart of Danville Main Street program started off the New Year with a new executive director. Bethany Rogers, a Danville native and the daughter of Buck and Jan Rogers, stepped into her new role Jan. 3. Brenda Willoughby, interim director, will...Tags: Tulane University, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Justice System, Architecture, Arts and Culture
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Nemours, Rollins team to fight childhood obesity
It just may take a village to combat childhood obesity. That's why institutions as diverse as Nemours Children's Hospital, Rollins College, Winter Park Health Foundation, "Sesame Street" and nearly two dozen local child-care centers have joined to...
Tags: Sesame Street (tv program), Rollins College, Weight, Teaching and Learning, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Gov. Scott to students: Plan for future, seek skills to land good jobs in a competitive, global market that “will rapidly change”
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelGov. Rick Scott, busy with his “education listening tour” this week, has continued his school themed week by also penning letters for Florida's high seniors and college freshmen. The similar letters — which Central Florida high school... -
Arthur Jensen dies at 89; his views on race and IQ created a furor
Arthur Jensen, a UC Berkeley professor whose scholarly contributions to the field of psychological measurement were often overshadowed by the furor over his findings on race-based differences in intelligence, has died. He was 89. One of the most...
Tags: Racism, Medical Specialization, University of California, Berkeley, Religion and Belief, Medical Research
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Moving up and out
In 51 years, no concussions. Despite low-hanging pipes that loop across ceilings and snake down walls, work spaces with clearances barely 5 feet high, and a tight maze full of blind spots where customers could easily collide — the Seminary Co-op...
Tags: Barack Obama, Dominican Republic, Manhattan (New York City), Religious Education, Chicago Tribune
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Cal State, UC Back Off Tuition Hikes After Prop. 30 Win
Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES -- California's two public university systems retreated from various tuition hikes as Gov. Jerry Brown suggested the moves would be ill-timed coming just a week after voters approved a tax increase for education. California State University...Tags: Gavin Newsom, Personal Income, Government, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Body along trail identified; Meyersdale man wanted for homicide
Daily American Staff WriterState police are looking for Jonathan William Beal, 23, of Scratch Hill Road, Meyersdale, for the ligature strangulation homicide of Justine Marie Jackson, 19, Meyersdale, whose body was found Sunday in a shallow grave near the Keystone Viaduct along...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Social Media, Culture, Somerset County (Maryland)
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Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne explores ideas about music and performance
David Byrne's lyrics, especially in his early days with Talking Heads, put even the most mundane human behavior underneath a magnifying glass to reveal all its wonder and strangeness. He was the "anthropologist from Mars," instantly staking out a place...
Tags: Lower East Side, Culture, Patti Smith, Asperger Syndrome, Entertainment
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No sign of remains in new Mich. search for Hoffa
ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Jimmy Hoffa is presumed dead, cocooned in mystery and innuendo and missing for the past 37 years. Patricia Szpunar just hopes that if the former Teamsters boss' remains do turn up, they're not in her backyard. Over the...Tags: Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, James P. Hoffa, Arts and Culture
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