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Caltech 'Ditch Day': A different kind of brain workout
Wearing an ear-to-ear smile and her hair slightly frizzy from her helmet, Caltech junior Curie Ahn craned her neck up toward the sky, her eyes still wide from the adrenaline. “I was actually pretty terrified,” the biology major said. “...
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Eva Longoria graduates with master's degree in Chicano studies
Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master's degree Wednesday. Longoria, 38, took home a real degree (not an honorary one) in Chicano studies from Cal State Northridge, where she physically...
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Some with defibrillators may safely play sports
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite expert guidelines advising against intense sports activity for people with implanted heart defibrillators, a new study suggests that some can compete without serious consequences. Researchers followed 372 athletes with...Tags: General Practitioners, Sports, Medical Research, College Sports, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Google eyes Waze as Facebook circles
ReutersGoogle Inc. is considering purchasing Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology companies, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Google's discussions with Waze, which sources said...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Qualcomm Inc., Israel, Computer Hardware, Telecommunication Service
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Lake students show gains in FCAT reading, writing and math scores
Lake school children did better on this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in reading, writing and math compared to last year. Third-grade math and reading as well as writing scores for the district's fourth-, eighth- and tenth-graders were...Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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Certain chronic pain may raise suicide risk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Back pain, migraine and other types of chronic pain without a known physical cause - and therefore little prospect for relief - were associated with an increased risk of suicide in a new study of U.S. veterans. But the...Tags: Physical Conditions, Suicidal Behavior, Veterans Affairs, Suicide, Migraine
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Plainfield math teacher part of a national Common Core team
A Plainfield math teacher is one of 28 educators across the country who is helping draft lesson plans for new educational standards that will soon kick off in Illinois and across the country. Michelle Schade, 46, a sixth grade math teacher at Indian...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Education, Plainfield (Will, Illinois), Teachers
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Tinley students awarded scholarships for community service
Six graduating high school seniors have been awarded $1,000 scholarships from Tinley Park for their community service, village officials have announced. Those students who are being honored include Emily Ruzevich, who attends Lincoln-Way North;...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DeKalb, Colleges and Universities
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Eva Longoria graduates with a Master's in Chicano Studies
Zap2itActress Eva Longoria had a big reason to celebrate Wednesday (May 22) -- she earned her Master's degree in Chicano Studies from California State University Northridge. "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my Master's degree in Chicano Studies!...Tags: Eva Longoria, Barack Obama
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Hartford Schools' Announce 2013 Teacher Of The Year
The Hartford CourantMario Marrero's fourth-grade students believe their teacher is the best in "the whole wide world," in the proud words of one 9-year-old. Well, here's a start: the Betances STEM Magnet School educator has been named the city's 2013 Teacher of the Year....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Teachers, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), South Windsor
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: University of California, Santa Barbara, Nobel Prize Awards, Swiss Confederation, Nanotechnology, Consumer Goods Industries
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Despite Life Saving Potential, State Reluctant to Mandate Storm Shelters
Email padler@ky3.comMOORE, Okla. (AP) — After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery — for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker...Tags: The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Natural Disasters, Lotteries, Mary Fallin, House Building
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