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View Education headlines on HDLNS.com
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U.S. official expects Canadian boy will return at end of school term
CALGARY â A Canadian boy who has spent almost two years in the custody of American child welfare services will be returned to Calgary to live with his grandparents, according to U.S. authorities. No time frame has been set for his return said Gene (read)
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Barnes & Noble eReader app for iPad launches [TeleRead: Bring the E-Books H
Barnes & Noble has launched the eReader app for iPad (read)
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iPad launch sees new Wattpad app
'eBook publishing site Wattpad has launched an updated version of its iPad and iPhone application to coincide with the international release of Apple's iPad. A statement issued by the company on Friday notes that the new app allows users to vote and (read)
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Bodleian summer exhibition celebrates the Royal Society
'The Bodleian Libraries 2010 Summer exhibition examines the intellectual world of John Aubrey (1626-97), one of the Founding Fellows of the Royal Society of London, and a major seventeenth-century scientific and cultural figure. John Aubrey and the D (read)
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The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: General Knowledge. Answers here.
1. What colour does your skin turn if you have jaundice?
2. In which American city is the Golden Gate Bridge?
3. Is an acre bigger or smaller than a hectare? (read)
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Which Library Systems Are Facing Major Cuts? Let Us Know...
Lori Reed, creator with Heather Braum of the website Save Libraries is preparing background for a news story on which library systems are facing cuts. We could use your assistance and make the biggest impact and the loudest entreaties to budgetary (read)
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Librarian Origin Stories
It's about everyone who's ever worked for a library.
Whether you're a first-year circ clerk or a retired library administrator, Librarian Origin Stories wonders how you joined our merry guild. It's a worldwide exploration of the experiences and back (read)
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Bill Clinton to discuss hearing loss at Kentucky school for hearing-impaire
 - More - Make life better for children with special needs Help your special-needs students reach their greatest potential. Enhance your skills and knowledge with a Penn State World Campus special education certificate. Choose online programs i (read)
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N.J. Gov. Christie gets warm welcome as speaker at Seton Hall law school gr
Zach Ornitz/The Star-Ledger (read)
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NUT News - Standing together for our schools - Special Edition - May/June 2
Current Government proposals and the economic climate suggest that teachers and the education service will be facing difficult times ahead. The NUT stands for a good local school for every child. We are asking other teachers' organisations to join (read)
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Local Medical Student Receives National Head Start Scholarship
No Abstract (read)
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Thank you for your support!
I love this blog. I love writing this blog. I wish I were doing it now. I feel even more guilty about my deadline-imposed neglect of the blog considering this:
and this:
Thank you, my dear readers, for all your support. I am not worthy (read)
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(Symposium)
(Symposium) 'Crossing Boundaries' Google earned a patent recently on location-based advertising (Animation) Powers of Complex PointsMashups need to become real productsThe Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers(Listen to this podcast) Martin Gardner wro (read)
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Online high school another option for students in Minn.
By Kelli Lageson, Albert Lea Tribune
A representative from Insight Schools came to Albert Lea on Thursday to talk to parents about options their high school-age children have for education. John Jacobs was at Lakeside Cafe on Bridge Avenue to talk ab (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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American School Calls NCAA Ruling Foul
The American School, an accredited non-profit distance education high school, was surprised by an announcement from the NCAA that it will no longer allow credits earned from the American School by high school student athletes to be used in the NCAA (read)
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Students push themselves to limit in combined event
EAST Cornwall students were among those from schools and colleges across the county taking part in the Cornwall Schools' Combined Event Champion-ships, held at Par Running Track, near St Austell. More than two hundred youngsters competed in the annua (read)
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Cash wrangle threat to girls education
A TEENAGER from Oxshott who is set to become her schools head girl next year could miss out on her education because she cannot afford to continue. Robyn Stock, 17, is locked in a battle with a governments Educational Maintenance Allowance agency, wh (read)
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Author helps students produce anthology
When It Happens Panel Get involved: send your photos, videos, news & views by texting PUPILS from an Abingdon school have produced a book of stories with the help of a leading local writer. Oxford-based author Tim Pears ran weekly after-school creati (read)
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Ofsted praises village school
A south Shropshire primary school, the first in the country to gain a top technology award, has been praised for having well-behaved kids but criticised by Ofsted inspectors for not spreading the word about ICT.Back in 2008, Clunbury Primary School w (read)
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In Gold's Shadow: How Other Metals Fit Into Portfolios
A look at silver, platinum, and palladium. (read)
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Test Prep: 7 Tips for LSAT Success
It's the most important part of applying to law school. Find out some simple tips to boost your score. (read)
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Test Prep: 6 Tips for GMAT Success
Think you're ready for business school? Not until you've mastered the GMAT. Here are 6 tips to help. (read)
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Honeybee Death Mystery Deepens
Colony collapse disorder linked to mix of fungal and viral infections. (read)
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The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom
Ideas for history, civics, geography, journalism, science and technology classes on addressing the ongoing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. (read)
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New school meal category for The British Turkey Awards
The British Turkey Awards has announced a brand new category for its 14th annual awards this year - Best School... (read)
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Businessman donates $6 million to Cleveland State University
A local businessman has donated $6 million to to provide scholarships for students majoring in teaching, nursing, engineering and computer science. Anand Bill Julka, who founded systems integration and networking solutions firm in Beachwood, donate (read)
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Autistic kids abused in Pa. classroom to get $5M
ALLENTOWN, Pa. The families of seven autistic students who were abused by their teacher in a northeastern Pennsylvania classroom have agreed to a $5 million settlement of their federal lawsuit. Lawyers say it's the largest settlement of its kind in (read)
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Banking Giant Offers Financing for Charter Schools
Extract not available. (read)
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Okla. Lawmakers Suspend School Improvement Initiatives
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La. Teacher Evaluation Revamp Signed Into Law
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Kan. schools win grants to expand its classes, Adv28
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Head of Philly schools' diversity office resigns
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Another year older
Next week is my birthday. It's not a milestone birthday; that was last year. On the day commemorating my 50th year on the planet, I went to visit my mom, who as it turns out, was on her death bed. 'Oh thank goodness you're here!,' she said in a surp (read)
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may 2010 144 [Flickr]
elliemom posted a photo: (read)
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New Jersey Teacher VS Governor
and teacher vs the truth as well.She told the Chris Christie, the NJ governor who is battling the teacher's unions for refusing to accept a pay freeze, that she is not fairly compensated. She said that if she got 3.00 an hour for each child in her c (read)
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Baby's Cochlear Implants Activated. See Him Smile
Watch this baby's face as his cochlear implants are activated:Watch it more than once to really let the impact sink in.via Laura at Ace of Spades. Turns out there are tones of videos on youtube showing kids getting their implants activated. Here's (read)
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Poetry Friday -- Hurdles and Sprinting and the Finish Line
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.- Jeph Jacquesphoto by kevin.roberts'Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, som (read)
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Police checks costs threaten parental involvement
Parent-teacher council raises warnings of burdens on authorities and impact of new disclosure system Parents are warning that new regulations for Scotland's police checks system will not only make it too expensive for councils to involve them in (read)
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Glee club
Gawky, embarrassed adolescents - even boys! - are suddenly wild with enthusiasm to sing and dance in public. What's gone wrong? Meabh Ritchie reports on the Glee Club phenomenon Sarah Beattie asks for volunteers to sing the solo and a forest of hands (read)
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Woodhead sowing seeds of success
A YORKSHIRE-based seed processing business which dates from the Napoleonic Wars has been bought by Wynnstay, the agricultural and retail group. Selby-based Woodhead Seeds has been trading for more than 200 years and provides a range of certified cere (read)
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Dumbbell teacher battles to avoid sack
After attempted-murder acquittal, he faces new legal fight against school governors He endured a lengthy court battle after admitting bludgeoning an unruly pupil with a dumbbell. But now, after avoiding prison, Peter Harvey is fighting attempts by hi (read)
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BAE Systems go!
80k cost of an apprenticeship, but this is worth every penny says Richard Hamer, BAE's director of education Defence and security giant BAE Systems employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and has sales in excess of £22 billion in 2009. Education (read)
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Mind the skills gap
TES Editorial © 2010 TSL Education Ltd. All pages of the Website are subject to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any material on the Website for any commercial purposes. TS (read)
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New kitchen to give pupils healthy meals
A primary school kitchen and dining hall have been officially opened. The new-look eating area, which cost £580,000, has been unveiled at the 416-pupil Riverside Primary, in Birstall. It will allow cooks to provide youngsters with fresh food, includ (read)
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Street on Constructivism in Ethics & Metaethics
Sharon Street's In What is Constructivism in Ethics and Metaethics? is available in Philosophical Compass (Volume 5, Issue 5, 2010). Here is the abstract: Most agree that when it comes to so-called 'first-order' normative ethics and political philoso (read)
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Startups and the 'great reset'
Richard Florida channels Joseph Schumpeter in arguing that times of crisis foster creativity. Schumpeter argued that creativity requires destruction. Can fields of training, development, and education benefit from waves of creativity unleashed during (read)
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USDOT: Planes Must Have NextGen GPS by 2020
That's a new deadline and it applies to airlines, private jet operators and other aircraft owners who fly in commercial airspace or in congested areas.
The cost for a private plane could be up to $10,000, while airlines are looking at millions to. (read)
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Free Oil Spill Reporter (VGI for Coast Spill) for iPhone, Android
- NPR
- app
- press release...Read more (read)
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DC CTO Launches Private Cloud, Aims to Grow Model City
Brian Sivak, the city's CTO, spoke at the Gov 2.0 conference this week. Among his plans for DC is a private cloud where IT staff can order up a server in a shopping cart and have it quickly "spooled up." Of more interest to GIS folks is t...Read mo (read)
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Ed Lester appointed new head of Student Loans Company
The former chief executive of medical telephone helpline NHS Direct has taken over as chief executive of the troubled Student Loans Company today. Ed Lester has also been head of a car scheme for people with disabilities and a consultant for the Offi (read)
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'Outstanding' schools inspection exemption
Richard Vaughan News Gove will push ahead with plans for top performers to be spared 'burden' of Ofsted visits Thousands of 'outstanding' schools will never have to face an Ofsted inspection again, The TES has learned. In his first newspaper (read)
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... and what we'd be glad to see go
I read with astonishment the story of Patricia Davies and her battle with the GTC ('I went through three years of hell to clear my name', May 21). The GTC has destroyed this teacher's career and put her in debt. The education quangos should be the fi (read)
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Parented by the state, failing in class: the sad saga of young people in ca
A stream of initiatives has aimed to improve the educational performance of looked-after children. But the figures still reveal huge underachievement. Can the latest ideas, including 'virtual' teachers, make a difference? Kerra Maddern reports The tr (read)
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Beyond repair
A good relationship between head and governors is key to a happy, high-performing school. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Hannah Frankel reports Joan Watson* is an experienced headteacher, but one thing mars her enjoyment of the job: her cha (read)
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'Ambitious' Aireville praised by Ofsted
Skipton's Aireville School has been praised by Ofsted as rapidly improving with inspiring leadership. The school, which four years ago was in special measures, was graded satisfactory - but with good capacity to make further improvements. The (read)
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Librarian oversees rare collection of Bibles from past six centuries
Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself 'the only librarian in the world who takes care of (read)
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US Teacher of the Year resigns after admitting sexual relationship with stu
New York, May 28 (ANI): A teacher in the US, who was voted Teacher of the Year at a Georgia high school, has been forced to resign after she admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the (read)
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US Teacher of the Year resigns after admitting sexual relationsh
A teacher in the US, who was voted Teacher of the Year at a Georgia high school, has been forced to resign after she admitted to having a sexual relationship with a student. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 17-year-old Shiloh High (read)
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WA teachers call for more surveillance
West Australian teachers have called for more police officers and surveillance cameras to be installed in schools across the state. Several State School Teachers Union (SSTUWA) members have put forward a motion to be debated at the next council meeti (read)
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International Engagement Through Education
I'd like to open our conversation by discussing two important trends that inform our drive to transform education in America. The first is increased international competition. The second is increased international collaboration. I'll also highlight a (read)
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WA teachers demand CCTVs, added policing
West Australian teachers have called for more police officers and surveillance cameras to be installed in schools across the state. Several State School Teachers Union (SSTUWA) members have put forward a motion to be debated at the next council meeti (read)
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Towns Challenge New Jersey Voters Wishes
Extract not available. (read)
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Obama says US has to go back to basic and fix education system
Lalit K Jha Washington, May 27 (PTI) President Barack Obama says the US has to 'go back to basics' and fix its education system if it has to continue to be ahead in this highly competitive world as countries like India and China are catching up fast (read)
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Applauds Introduction of All-S
The Most Comprehensive Support of Charter Schools Ever Introduced in Congress; Will Expand High-Performing Charter Schools WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is proud to voice its support f (read)
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Economic segregation rising in US public schools
Play Video Economy Video:Geithner in Berlin CNBC Play Video Economy Video:Dinan on Recovery, Rates & More CNBC Play Video Economy Video:Gas prices expected to rise for summer 2010 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads More than 16,000 public schools strugg (read)
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Applauds Introduction of All-S
The is proud to voice its support for the (All-STAR) Act, which was introduced today by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). � This bill is a companion to H.R. � 4330, which was introduced in the U.S. House of Representativ (read)
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The Faculty Role in Assessment
Professors and policy makers see progress, but impediments, too, in getting instructors to see measuring learning as in their own interests. (read)
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U.Va. Will Fight Attorney General's Document Demands
The University of Virginia on Thursday -- as it has been hinting it would do -- went to state court to try to block demands by the state's attorney general for documents about the work of Michael Mann, who studies global warming and who taught at the (read)
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My Application, AACC President
Wick Sloane thinks he's the right man to lead the American Association of Community Colleges. Here's his platform. (read)
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Debt Hunters
In cash-strapped times, universities employ aggressive tactics to collect unpaid parking tickets sometimes issued years before. (read)
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Unwinding Berkeley's DNA Test
A freshman orientation project stirs up nationwide controversy. (read)
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One-Stop Shopping for Education Data
The Education Department has published Condition of Education 2010, its annual compendium of (just about) everything you'd want to know about the state of American education. The publication contains a wealth of previously published data about underg (read)
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Newly Tenured ... at Northern Colorado, North Texas, Wagner
No Abstract (read)
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Math Geek Mom: A Difficult Decision
Rosemarie Emanuele (read)
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May 27th Stream
@librarianbyday I think you mean @jessamyn, not me [shifted]
@librarianbyday wish I had, but it *is* a full moon [shifted]
Posted Marie, not a monkey: i think it stinks that ala puts an age cap (read)
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The New York Public Library partnering with HathiTrust
The New York Public Library is partnering with HathiTrust, a shared repository of digitized content from academic and research libraries. NYPL is the 27th library to join the partnership, which was formed in 2008 and counts the Columbia University Li (read)
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Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts
Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts is a three-year AHRC-funded research project. It is a joint project of the University of Oxford and King's College London
Aims and Objectives:
* To create a digital resource reuniting all the known holograph survi (read)
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EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) announces the release of ATLA Historical Monograph
'EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is announcing the release of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2. This is the second of two monograph series offered by EBSCO from American Theological Library Association's (ATLA) historical monograph archives. (read)
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Ian McEwan wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction
Ian McEwan, renowned for serious literary prose, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for his novel 'Solar.' The prize, Britain's only award for comic fiction, celebrates the novel of the last 12 months that has best captured (read)
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog - May 26, 2010 update
The May 26, 2010 edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazi (read)
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The National Debt is Today's Problem--Not the Future's
The only thing Washington appears committed to is digging a deeper hole. (read)
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Fixing Oil Disaster My Responsibility, Obama Says
Obama insisted his administration, not oil giant BP, was calling the shots. (read)
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Ohio Farmers Unhappy With Attack on Corn Sweetener
Food companies that remove high-fructose corn syrup from their products threaten the jobs of farmers. (read)
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What Your 401(k) Really Costs You
Stress and poor health don't have to be a way of life. (read)
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Republicans Have Most Action in Arizona Primary
GOP challenge to Sen. John McCain is one of the top contested races in Arizona's primary election. (read)
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Forever Blooming - Lifelong Learning at CSM
The College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Neb., has chosen a beautiful name for their lifelong learning program -- Forever Blooming. I love that.
Their creativity doesn't stop with a great name. The weeklong program scheduled on Wednesdays from June 16 to (read)
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Estimates of oil leak gush past twice the previous levels; drill permits y
With mud continuing to battle oil in an attempted 'top kill' of the leaking well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the historic scale of the disaster became clearer Thursday when scientists said the mile-deep well has been spewing 12,000 to 19,00 (read)
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U-Va. goes to court to fight Cuccinelli's subpoena of ex-professor's docum
RICHMOND -- Virginia's flagship university went to court Thursday to fight an effort by Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli II (R) to get documents from a former climate scientist at the school, an unusual confrontation that will test the bounds o (read)
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#BeCuriousTour : US Tour 2010
This September, I'll be hitting the road with Christian Long and Mediasnackers' DK to discover more of the Big Country, offering up masterclasses, talks and meetups. The Be
Curious Tour 2010 boys today completed a very
productive pre-launch mee (read)
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Book Review: Kramer's The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and
Larry D. Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Oxford University Press; 2004), 363 pp.
Larry Kramer's The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review ('The People') provides a provocative a (read)
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New mural and art exhibit to debut at TANA community center
June 4, Friday — A new mural produced by the UC Davis Chicana/o Studies Mural Workshop project will be unveiled during a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. at the TANA community art center, 1224 Lemen Ave., Woodland. The 8-by-40-foot mural is destined (read)
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What exactly is 'top priority' for President Obama? Not the economy, stupid
It certainly isn't the oil spill is it? He'll do what he always does. Create a commission and build a gallows for the CEOs. Then pounce on more green in the sky plans.If you google 'Barack Obama top priority' you'll get 444,000 matches, many duplicat (read)
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School that became academy loses its 'outstanding' status
Birmingham's Shireland Collegiate academy is now deemed 'inadequate', casting doubt on government plans A school that inspectors rated as 'outstanding' has been downgraded to 'inadequate' since becoming an academy, casting fresh doubt on coalition p (read)
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Bedlingtonshire pupils dig in for allotment
GREEN-FINGERED pupils have been digging deep to create an allotment at their school. Students and teachers at Bedlingtonshire Community High School in Northumberland gave up their weekend to establish the new eco-friendly feature. The aim of the (read)