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Edward Itta Appointed to U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Channel 2 NewsFormer North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta was appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission Tuesday, drawing praise from Alaska’s U.S. senators for his continued service to the Last Frontier. Itta is a member and former...Tags: Barack Obama, Mark Begich, National Government, Politics, Board of Directors
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Yale Students Push For Divesting in Fossil Fuels
Back in the 1980s, “divestment” was a term for a student-driven campaign to force colleges and universities to end their financial connections to companies doing business with South Africa’s brutal white apartheid regime. Today, the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Social Movements
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Flowers, sweat and tears: Local floats take Rose Parade awards
Burbank, Glendale, La Canada Flintridge and South Pasadena all won awards for their floats in the 124th Rose Parade, with hundreds of local volunteers getting into the act. Ryan Babroff of Burbank, 26, is already a veteran float expert. He began...
Tags: Animation (genre), Sailing, Google Inc., Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Md. teen's geolocation project wins prize at MIT
The Frederick News-PostUsually, hobbies cost money. But Sam Pritt’s extracurricular project has earned him $3,000 and could bring in an additional $100,000. Sam, 17, lives in Walkersville and has been home-schooled by his parents, Christine and Mark, his entire life,...Tags: Siemens, Science and Technology, Google Inc., FEMA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Drugs, metal thefts plague Washington County in 2012
Editor’s note: As we usher out 2012 and welcome 2013, The Herald-Mail has prepared a package of year-end stories that provide short recaps of some of the top stories of the year past. These stories will be published each day through New Year’s...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Endangered Species, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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La Caņada Flintridge float soars
Ann Neilson is mighty proud of her 42-foot-long, 18-foot-high brontosaurus. Neilson, the president of the La Caņada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn., said she swelled with pride on Tuesday when the city’s float, “Dino-Soar,” wheeled...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Morgan board reverses decision, extends Wilson's contract
Morgan State University's Board of Regents voted to extend the contract of the university's president for an additional year during a lengthy meeting Friday — reversing a contentious decision to seek a new president at the close of the academic...
Tags: Northwood, Robert W. Curran, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology
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The Crowd: Giving back in the season of giving
I suppose it is downright anti-American to voice protest concerning Black Friday. OK, I get it; I am working for a publication that exists based on ad revenue. Further, I fully understand that the American retail economy is uber-dependent on fourth...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Teaching and Learning, UCLA Bruins, Thanksgiving
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Gao performing in 2 world-class worlds
Christina Gao was doing an interview during her daily, 2-mile afternoon trek from Harvard University to the Skating Club of Boston. "Wait," Gao said, "something noisy is going by." Waiting is the one thing Gao has no time for, not if she wants to be a...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Family, NBC (tv network), Students
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Students press Hopkins to drop fossil energy stocks
Taking a cue from what they're learning in class, some Johns Hopkins public health students are spearheading a climate-conscious drive to get the university to divest itself of fossil fuel holdings. Just before taking off for the holiday break,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Health and Safety at School, University of Maryland, College Park
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Researchers see the light in bid to restore lost vision
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles recently created a light-sensitive molecule that they say could help restore vision lost in degenerative eye diseases, such as macular degeneration, and...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of California, Los Angeles, Eyes and Vision, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School
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Business People - Dec. 30
Housing Authority of Washington County The Washington County Board of County Commissioners on Nov. 27 approved the appointments of John Lestitian and Toni Sandridge to the Housing Authority of Washington County Board of Commissioners, each for a five-...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Criminals, Politics, Maryland State Police, Crime, Law and Justice
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