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Rabbi teaches how to grow from life's hardships
Meet another member of South Florida's many-sided faith community. This week we're talking with Rabbi Jessica Spitalnick Brockman, associate rabbi at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton. Q: What's your particular area at the synagogue ? A: Social action, adult...
Tags: Yamim Noraim, Religion and Belief, Upper East Side, Bronx (New York City), Lynn University
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Apodaca: Boys' group dances out of their comfort zone
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with some young men, all newly minted graduates of Corona del Mar High School, who did something so ridiculously cool that I just had to share it. First, you must picture these eight men. They are whip-smart,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Backstreet Boys (music group), Landforms, Dance, Christmas
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Obese children, government intervention
Marla Richter comes from, to use her term, a "fat family." Her mom was fat, as are her kids and most of her grandkids. So a recent case hit home: A 219-pound Cleveland third-grader was taken from his mother by child welfare officials, in part, because...Tags: Medical Specialization, Health, Medical Research, Labor Legislation, Obesity
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Catonsville native helping low-income students in Milwaukee
Catonsville native Carolyn Vidmar is completing a second year of service with College Possible Milwaukee, a nonprofit, dedicated to helping low income students achieve college success. Through the AmeriCorps VISTA program, she coordinates media...Tags: Education, Catonsville, Colleges and Universities
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Bill would limit public information requests of professors
In Virginia, the attorney general, skeptical of global warming, tried to use his subpoena powers to build a fraud case against a climatology professor. In Wisconsin, Republican Party officials sought the emails of a history professor, trying to...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Weather, University of Maryland, College Park, Ken Cuccinelli, Environmental Issues
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Standing wheelchair fit for the operating room
WGN NewsA standing wheelchair. It's not the first of its kind, but it will go where no others have. It's a project five University of Wisconsin at Madison students embraced -- more than a thousand hours in the making and a chance to change the life of a surgeon...Tags: Chemical Industry, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Orthopedic Surgery, Skype
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USDA gleans public's input
Multimedia ProducerThe United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service of the University of Wisconsin had a carrot test trial Tuesday at the University of California Desert Research & Extension Center near Holtville. The event was open to...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Cheese Corn, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Education
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Sage duo makes history
CORONA DEL MAR — Everyone else had gone home, but Alex Manolakas and Eric Magliarditi were still on the court at Corona del Mar High. As 4 p.m. neared, the Sage Hill School doubles team was entering the seventh hour of its workday at the CIF...Tags: California Interscholastic Federation, Tennis, Sage
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Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, Hopkins professor
Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, a retired professor had taught in the Johns Hopkins University's mechanics and materials department for nearly 40 years and whose hobby was farming, died May 11 of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Teaching and Learning, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), The Pennsylvania State University, Electronics
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Health issues vary in low-income Imperial County
Staff WriterIn Imperial Valley two in every five people are obese, nearly 13,000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 163 children were hospitalized in 2010 due to asthma. The Valley leads the state with these factors, having the highest rates of diabetes,...Tags: Health, Obesity, Arthritis, Lungs and Airways, Unemployment Benefits
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Defining where words come from
When your former governor and your favorite Sudanese embassy-protesting movie star head to the clink the same week, it's time to rethink how you talk about prison. Starting with the word "prison." Boring! And really, clink? We can do better than that....Tags: Prisons, Education, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University
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Newspaper finds suspicious test scores nationwide
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper examined test results for 70,000...
Tags: Arne Duncan, Teaching and Learning, Health, Examinations, Newspaper and Magazine
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