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LinkedIn reaches 225 million users as it marks its 10th birthday
While many people were celebrating Cinco de Mayo this weekend, LinkedIn was marking its 10th anniversary. The professionally-focused social network became a decade old Sunday. To commemorate the occasion, LinkedIn uploaded a neat visual time line...
Tags: Social Media, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Culture, Cinco de Mayo, Arts and Culture
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Day program in Winchester fosters dreams of independence
The Victory Heights Center for Achievement added another “achievement” to its list in March in the form of a day program for adults with disabilities. The day program extends from STRIDE, Supporting Therapeutic Recreation for Individuals...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Interest, Special Olympics, Culture, Arts and Culture
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COLUMN - Not in the spirit of Hayek
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 14 (Reuters) - It has been a bad couple of weeks for conservative social scientists. First a doctoral student ran the numbers on the study by Harvard's...Tags: Government, Think Tanks, Slavery, Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher
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Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary
ReutersBy Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor BUDAPEST, May 14 (Reuters) - When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium...Tags: Government, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Israel, Roman Catholicism, Elections
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Harry B. "Mac" McKenzie, 96, Frederick, Md.
Harry B. "Mac" McKenzie, 96, passed away peacefully on May 8 at the Sunrise Senior Living Center in Frederick, Md. Harry, known as Mutt during his youth, was born on March 5, 1917, in Meyersdale. He was the youngest of four children born to Noah A. and...
Tags: Baseball, American Legion, Sports, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Moravian College graduates
Moravian College held graduation ceremonies 10 a.m. May 11. The ceremony concludes the 271st academic year at Moravian, America's sixth-oldest college. Moravian College President Christopher M. Thomforde conferred degrees to approximately 398 bachelor...Tags: Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Easton (Fairfield, Connecticut), Music, Human Interest, Chester
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EU sees Greece hitting 2013-14 fiscal goals, but more pain ahead
ReutersATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will hit its fiscal targets this year and next but needs additional savings to meet its bailout requirements in 2015 and 2016, the European Commission said. The findings add to evidence that the country is back on track to cut...Tags: Economic Indicator, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, National Government
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Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure
Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...
Tags: The New York Times, BBC, The Boston Globe, Triple Crown, Imperial and Royal Matters
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New executive director of Washington Co. Humane Society streamlines adoption process and more
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comReducing obstacles for adoption, decreasing euthanasia rates and increasing the number of animal control field service officers are top priorities listed by Michael Lausen, the recently hired executive director of the Humane Society of Washington County....Tags: Environmental Issues, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Human Interest, Maryland State Police, Arts and Culture
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ANALYSIS-Google+ struggles to attract brands, some neglect to update
ReutersBy Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (Reuters) - To mark the Cinco de Mayo holiday this year, Domino's Pizza festooned its Facebook page with a string of posts, including an image of a Mexican-themed guacamole pizza that garnered over 2,000 "likes"....Tags: Business, YouTube, Foods and Beverages, Social Media, Software Industry
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Guatemala's Maya finally find justice over civil war crimes
ReutersBy Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Murder, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Guatemala
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The war for mobile messaging is on
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door. Unlike...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Computer Hardware, Customs and Tradition, Companies and Corporations, Travel
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