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BOWLing for gifts
The Business of Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsWith the college bowl season kicking off next week, SportsBusiness Journal has done its annual roundup of bowl gifts to athletes. The list is chock full of electronics from iPods to Xboxes and even more bowls than ever are offering......Tags: Education, Electronics, Iowa, Bowl Championship Series, University of Miami
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Chelsea Clinton engaged, village happy
The Swampby Mark Silva Chelsea Clinton is engaged. The only child of the former president and current secretary of state is engaged to be married to the son of a former congressman from Iowa and congresswoman from Pennsylvania: Investment banker Marc......Tags: Education, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Columbia University, Iowa, Colleges and Universities
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Honda Announces Plug-in Hybrid and EV for 2012
KickingTiresHonda will produce a plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle for the U.S. by 2012, according to the automaker. There are no specifications on the Honda EV, but it will likely compete with the upcoming Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i MiEV.......Tags: Education, Hybrid Vehicles, Honda, Google Inc., Prius
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Michelle Obama's guests: State of Union
The Swampby Michael Muskal Part of the ceremony surrounding any presidential speech to Congress is who gets to be singled out and who gets invited to sit with the first family. First Lady Michelle Obama is bringing quite a crowd. This......Tags: Family, Hanover County, Employees, Journalism, Fort Hood (military base)
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Even a stripped-down 'Heights' still resonates
The 2008 Broadway musical "In the Heights," the story of a mostly Latino community struggling to both move up and stay together, is now in its waning days as a touring attraction. Since the show last was in Chicago — in late 2009 — the...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Broadway Theater, Travel, Theater
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iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...
Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Electronics, Human Interest, Apple iPad
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Calling time out on work interruptions, distractions
For most, the modern workday is one long series of interruptions punctuated by brief bursts of productivity. For example, it took me 17 minutes to write that first sentence. I got an email after the word "modern," had to send a tweet after...
Tags: Employees, Physiology, Career and Workplace, Media Industry
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Penny Pritzker resigns from the Chicago school board
Billionaire Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker resigned from the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday. A spokeswoman for Pritzker declined to provide a reason for the resignation. Pritzker is being vetted as a potential candidate for U.S. Commerce...
Tags: White House, Companies and Corporations, Chicago Teachers Union, Elections, Chicago Mayor
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Elections, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Satellite and Cable Service, Services and Shopping
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What's An Acceptable Civilian/Terrorist Drone Kill Ratio?
The Hartford Courant"Honk! Honk! Honk!" The sound filled the air as I walked to my car in the Southern Connecticut State University parking lot. With bag in one hand and keys in the other, I looked skyward at a flock of geese to my right. As I reached my car ready to pop...Tags: Education, Southern Connecticut State University, Pakistan, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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Chanel No. 5's heavy notes of Brad Pitt tickling the wrong senses at the moment
If you close your eyes, the ad for Chanel No. 5 from 30 or so years ago was larded with the very same kind of gibberish found in today's much-ridiculed spots with Brad Pitt. "I am made of blue sky. And golden light. And I will feel this way forever," a...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Britney Spears, Ridley Scott, Leo Burnett, Michael Jackson
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Organic Reaction: Farmers Annoyed, Not Threatened By Stanford Report
The Hartford CourantConsumers who spend up to twice as much on organic foods naturally want to know what they're getting for their money, and on first glance, a report this week by Stanford University health researchers seems to say, not much. The report looked at dozens of...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Food Industry, Simsbury, West Hartford, Tomatoes
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