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Bill Gates spends $1.1 million to study students' boredom in class
KIAHMicrosoft 'gazillionaire' Bill Gates wants to provide schools and students with mood bracelets. Yeah, this isn’t a joke. The bracelets would measure how interested they are in their lessons. About $1.1 million buck-o-roos from the Bill & Melinda...Tags: Charity, Teaching and Learning, Education, Microsoft Corporation, Students
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The Oracle of Obama?
President Barack Obama is struggling with a national jobless rate of more than 9 percent, but he's finding plenty of work for investment guru Warren Buffett.
The so-called Oracle of Omaha is the president's primary policy prop as Obama pushes the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Taxation, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Personal Income, Microsoft Corporation
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Henry Kissinger, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Vegetarian Diet
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Police escort variety of officials to events
Animal Kingdom, the thoroughbred that won this year's Kentucky Derby, got a police escort to Pimlico for the Preakness. Wounded war veterans got escorts to Orioles games. Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell got an escort to the Grand Prix. Police...Tags: Equestrian, Baltimore Ravens, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Politics, Boston Red Sox
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Late-night jokes: Starbucks CEO reveals how he got rich
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Panetta cries wolf on defense cuts
Faced with automatic Pentagon spending cuts over the coming decade, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is crying doom about the effect on U.S. security, and a Washington Post editorial says it would be "an unconscionable act of political irresponsibility"...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ronald Reagan, The Washington Post
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Small Wonders: Can you tolerate a 'Merry Christmas?'
Editor's note: While Patrick Caneday takes some time off, we’re running some of his choices for re-publication. This column was first published Dec. 5, 2009. Let me say something that may deeply offend many of you —something so insidious...Tags: Jesus Christ, Jerusalem (Israel), Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, The Happiest News!
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Small Wonders: Sick-day musings gleaned from computer
As a tight knit family in a tight-fit house — four people, three ladies, two bedrooms, one bath, no space — we share everything. Besides my T-shirts, the most intimate thing we share is germs. So when Thing 1 and Thing 2 came home with a...Tags: The Huffington Post, Rick Santorum, Khloe Kardashian, Politics, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Same Titanic but brand-new, built from scratch, billionaire says
What’s more exciting than James Cameron re-releasing “Titanic” in 3-D? When an even richer man – Australia’s Clive Palmer – tries to bring the ill-fated ship to life. By building a modern replica of it. The mining...
Tags: Kylie Minogue, Charity, Metal and Mineral, Mining, James Cameron
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Monday's Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies CBS This...... -
Bill Gates calls for increased funding for clean energy research
Los Angeles TimesAt a conference for green investors, Microsoft Corp.founder Bill Gates said that research funding for clean energy needs to at least double in order to see a viable, investor-attractive source of clean energy to reduce carbon emissions. But Gates was...Tags: Jerry Brown, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Microsoft Corporation, BP Plc
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Toomey: Romney is a conservative
Call Washington BureauMitt Romney got the next best thing to an endorsement from U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, he got validation. Toomey -- who made his mark in Washington hunting down Republican moderates to replace them in Congress with conservatives when he was president of the...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Rick Santorum, Microsoft Corporation, Mitt Romney, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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