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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Newport Harbor
Rachel Anne Barney GPA: 4.4384 School Activities/Clubs: IB drama production of "Dear Brutus," Field Studies Club, IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Theatre HL, IB French SL, IB Environmental Science SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB diploma candidate, AP US...Tags: Basketball, Politics, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), University of California, Berkeley, Medical Specialization
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As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers
WESTFIELD, Mass. — The envelope factory where Lisa Weber works is hot and noisy. A fan she brought from home helps her keep cool as she maneuvers around whirring equipment to make her quota: 750 envelopes an hour, up from 500 a few years ago....
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Justice System, Colleges and Universities, Lawyers, Productivity
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Study says many online students prefer face-to-face classes
As colleges are rushing -- or being pushed -- to embrace online education, they might want to take pause: Most students prefer connecting with teachers and fellow students and don’t want to take all of their classes online, a new study suggests....
Tags: Jerry Brown, Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Online Advertising
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Thirty years later, nation remains at educational risk
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools don't step up their game. "A Nation at Risk," the report issued 30 years ago by...
Tags: Michelle Rhee, Colleges and Universities, Students, Teachers, Russia
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Pot in a pill: All the pain relief without the smoke
Unless there is some recognized analgesic effect of rolling a joint, lighting it up and deeply inhaling the by-products of marijuana combustion, then it stands to reason that you could distill the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana,...Tags: Marijuana Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Drugs and Medicines, Pain, Over-the-Counter Medicines
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Orson Welles, England, The New York Times, Fiction, Citizen Kane (movie)
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As Supreme Court considers gay marriage, abortion comparisons rise
Are gay marriage and abortion culturally equivalent? As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up one of the great civil rights issues of our day, many people wonder whether the court might move cautiously so as to avoid the social upheaval and...
Tags: The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice, Marriage, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage
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Dennis Rodman tests out 'basketball diplomacy' in North Korea
It’s a story so strange it could have been cobbled together through Mad Libs: Flamboyant basketball star Dennis Rodman and some of the showy Harlem Globetrotters arrived Tuesday in the isolated country of North Korea, in a filmed trip billed as...
Tags: Politics, The Washington Post, Michael Jordan, Harlem Globetrotters, Google Inc.
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Putting Chicago's violence on the table
CLAVERING, England — In this rural Essex village stands The Cricketers, the once-quiet pub that launched the career of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who first cooked in his parents' kitchen. Trevor and Sally Oliver's place has grown with...
Tags: United Kingdom, Bars and Clubs, Nutrition, Lifestyle and Leisure, Breads
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Book lovers, save the date for CityLit Festival
The lineup for the 10th annual CityLit Festival is set, so Baltimore-area book lovers should mark April 13 on calendars. The event, held at the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, offers a full day of author readings, panel discussions and...
Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The New York Times, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Authors, George Saunders
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CERN: We've found 'a Higgs boson'; but is it predicted version?
Evidence indicates that the new particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider is a Higgs boson, officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, said Thursday. But whether it is the version of the Higgs boson...
Tags: Large Hadron Collider Experiments, Higgs Boson Search, Awards and Prizes, Science, Applied Physics
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Why we need to raise the minimum wage
Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low. Currently, an individual with a full-time job at the minimum wage and a family of three to support will...
Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Politics, Productivity, Poverty, Employment
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