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George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology
George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...
Tags: Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science, Harvard University, Networking
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ANALYSIS: Romney, Ryan factcheck
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his debut as Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan promised "America's comeback team" won't duck tough budget issues, although the man standing next to him has kept his head low so far. Romney vowed the duo would "preserve"...
Tags: Social Security, Politics, Moody's Corporation, Budgets and Budgeting, Gun Control
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Dutch architect and educator is IIT's next architecture dean
The Illinois Institute of Technology announced Tuesday that it has named Dutch architect and educator Wiel Aretsas the new dean of its architecture school. Arets, currently a professor of building, planning and design at the BerlinUniversity for the Arts,...Tags: Teachers, Education, Science and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Europe
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Class Acts: Benjamin Spar, Farmington High School
The Hartford CourantFor Benjamin Spar, music isn't simply a series of notes on a page. Spar, the valedictorian of his class, played the viola in the school's symphony and its chamber ochestra. He sang in the chamber and madrigals choirs and won national honors to sing...Tags: Music, Science and Technology, Entertainment
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David Hyde Pierce Directs Comedy At Williamstown
The Hartford CourantDavid Hyde Pierce says there wasn't a "Eureka!" moment when it occurred to him to set Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners in manors, "The Importance of Being Earnest" with the playwright's characters as transplanted American gangsters in the 1930s....Tags: Jill Eikenberry, Theater, Edward Herrmann, James Gandolfini, Music Theater
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Bruce P. Wilson, bank president
Bruce Page Wilson, former president of Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co., who earlier had been president of the old Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad, died July 5 of complications from a stroke at Nubbin Ridge, his Green Spring Valley home, where he had...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, Annapolis, Companies and Corporations, Yale University
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Pasadena Poly's Michelle Miller named All-American by Parade
About all that was missing for Pasadena Poly senior forward Michelle Miller and her building procession of awards and accolades was a parade. That was until Sunday. That’s when the Princeton University-bound phenom was named a member of 2012 Parade...
Tags: Orthopedic Surgery, Medical Procedures and Tests, Volleyball, Health, College Baseball
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Swiss long required to buy health insurance -- without the furor
World NowThe linchpin of the health care reforms championed by President Barack Obama is the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance -- a rule that could be overturned by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruling, expected Thursday, will decide... -
University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
Delivering the future with graphene
Behind locked doors in a nondescript Jessup industrial park, workers using secret techniques conjure a material that has promises to supercharge many 21st-century technologies.
Called graphene, it's a fine, fluffy black powder that could soon become part...Tags: Government, National Government, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Renewable Energy, Politics
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Obama to British schoolgirls: Work hard, dream big
OXFORD, England — First lady Michelle Obama combined a message of hard work with hugs Wednesday as she drew on her family life to inspire a group of London schoolgirls who were visiting Oxford University. In the ancient vaulted hall of Christ...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Church and State Relations, Harry Potter (fictional character), University of Oxford
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Family affair
Call it sisterly love: First lady Michelle Obama will deliver a commencement address June 17 at Oregon State University, where brother Craig Robinson coaches the men's basketball team, her aides said Wednesday. It's one of three graduation talks on tap...
Tags: Basketball, College Sports, College Basketball, Oregon State University, Michelle Obama
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