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Central Floridian of the Year Deirdre Macnab: League's leader, inspired by history, fights for voters
Winter Park's Deirdre Macnab regularly travels across Florida to talk to groups about her organization's mission. Sometimes she dresses as Susan B. Anthony, the fearless leader of America's women's suffrage movement. The costume is a good fit for...
Tags: New Products, Orange County (New York), U.S. Congress, New York City, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reviewing the news
25 years ago Editor named to nominate Pulitzers Ken Winter, Petoskey News-Review editor and general manager, will go to Columbia University next month to help nominate recipients for this year's Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Winter has been named a...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Journalism, Sociology, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs
NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the...
Tags: Software Industry, Services and Shopping, New Products, Labor Markets, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The feds' education power grab
In December, California's application for a waiver from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act was denied by the U.S. Department of Education. This, we were told, was because California had failed to embrace the federal department's reform agenda,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Executive Branch
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A Lecture on Tree Rings at the Greenwich Historical Society
You can learn alot about a tree by slicing through it and looking at its cross section. Unfortunately it kills the tree too, so we don't recommend this. But Dr. Neil Pedersen is Research Assistant Professor in the Tree Ring Laboratory at Lamont-Doherty...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Consuming too many food studies leaves a bad taste
Coffee is now good for you. According to a research study, it may help prevent Type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's, stroke and dementia as well as help you live a little longer. But java lovers know this: Another study says that drinking three or more cups of...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Roosevelt, Hospitals and Clinics, Dietary Supplements, Diabetes
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PASSINGS: Daniel J. Edelman
Daniel J. Edelman, 92, who built one of the world's top public relations companies and pioneered celebrity endorsements and media tours, died of heart failure Tuesday at a Chicago hospital, said his son, Richard Edelman. Edelman is credited with...
Tags: New Products, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Radio, Johnny Carson, Public Relations
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Catherine O'Neill dies at 70; political activist, women's advocate
Catherine O'Neill, a social worker turned political activist and advocate for refugee women who co-founded the watchdog group now called the Women's Refugee Commission, died of cancer Wednesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 70. Her death...
Tags: Primaries, St. Joseph's College, Abortion, Christianity, Democratic Party
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Marguerite T. Petersen, city teacher
Marguerite Theresa Petersen, a retired Baltimore elementary school teacher, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 11 at Union Memorial Hospital. The West Baltimore resident was 89.
Born Marguerite Theresa Page, she was the daughter of Dr. George C. Page,...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Hospitals and Clinics, Coppin State University, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore County
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News 13 hires new weekend morning anchor
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelCentral Florida News 13 has lined up a new weekend morning anchor will who come aboard next month. Kristin Kane starts at the cable news channel Jan. 14, but her first day anchoring hasn't been determined, News 13 General Manager Robin Smythe said. Kane... -
L.A. Now Live: Discuss UC Berkeley chancellor pay raise
L.A. NOWThe UC Board of Regents on Tuesday approved a $50,000 -- or 11.4% -- pay raise to the incoming UC Berkeley chancellor despite strong opposition from Gov. Jerry Brown. The Times higher education reporter Larry Gordon will join L.A. Now Live at 9 a.m. to... -
New UC Berkeley chief to get pay raise despite Brown's opposition
L.A. NOWDespite strong opposition from Gov. Jerry Brown, the UC regents on Tuesday gave the new chancellor of UC Berkeley a $50,000-–or 11.4%--pay raise over the current campus head and said the extra money would come from private donations, not state...
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