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Laguna Beach dozen sign with colleges
Twelve senior athletes at Laguna Beach High signed a National Letter of Intent Wednesday to continue their academic and athletic careers. "Celebrating the success of our athletes is important and I am very proud of our students," Laguna Beach...
Tags: Water Polo, Princeton University, Sports, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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MarksJarvis: 'Just trust me' allure of hedge funds gives way to 'buyer beware'
The magic is gone … the infatuation over. Wealthy investors who thought a few years ago that brainy hedge fund managers would show them the money have shed their rose-colored glasses. Individuals are no longer enamored with the funds, and for...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Stock Market, Morningstar Incorporated, Credit Ratings, Mutual Funds
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Wow: You Know Things Are Bad When Yale's Suing Grads Over Student Loans
The crisis in student loan defaults must be horrific if Yale University is reduced to suing its graduates to get some of its money back. Here's a Bloomberg story detailing the problems universities and colleges are facing when it comes to widespread...Tags: Education, Loans, Colleges and Universities
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A Yale Study on Sugar and Our Brains Stirs Up Controversy
Robert Sherwin was a little shocked by the stormy reaction to a study released in early January by his team of scientists at Yale University's School of Medicine. He shouldn't have been. Their report dropped smack in the middle of a nasty national...
Tags: Obesity, Yale School of Medicine, New York City, Science and Technology, Drugs and Medicines
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Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist
Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...
Tags: Applied Physics, Pancreatic Cancer, Biology, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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Garry Wills: a devout critic
A political conservative turned liberal, lifelong Roman Catholic and world-class curmudgeon, Garry Wills has called President Barack Obama a disappointment and Pope Benedict XVI irrelevant — and that was before the pontiff announced his resignation....
Tags: Christianity, Chicago Tribune, John Wayne, Johns Hopkins University, Barack Obama
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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Libraries, Science and Technology, Arts
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Exercise: Choose your own potential
Long ago I had one of those "choose-your-own adventure" books based on a James Bond movie, and I made bad choices; the poor British spy kept getting consumed in a vat of molten lava, impaled on a bunch of spiky things or became an appetizer for...
Tags: Overweight, Obesity, University of Florida, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Trips and Vacations
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'Best cover letter' claims 'no unbelievably special skills'
Remember “Impossible is Nothing,” the bloated video resume from Yale University student Aleksey Vayner that went viral in the worst way in 2006? Wall Street turned Vayner into a laughingstock upon viewing him bench-pressing heavy weights,...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace, Employees
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Long Hours And Sharp Elbows
Hartford Courant / Fox CTFor much of his life, Dannel Malloy has been an avid fan of hockey and rugby. Both rough-and-tumble sports are highly physical and require quick movements, sharp elbows and fast decisions. A rugby player for 22 years, Malloy finally quit when his...Tags: Connecticut Economic Development, Moody's Corporation, Taxation, Fishing, Personal Income
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Mass killings often planned, not spontaneous, experts say
The motive behind the Connecticut elementary school rampage is not known, but behavioral specialists with expertise on mass killings note that such events typically do not occur spontaneously, that the perpetrator has harbored both resentments and...
Tags: Psychologists, Suicide, Psychiatrists, Crime, Law and Justice, Psychiatry
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The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, 81, noted Lutheran theologian, author
The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, a prominent Lutheran theologian, educator and author whose teaching career at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., spanned more than three decades, died Dec. 29 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of...Tags: U.S. Congress, Christianity, Hospitals and Clinics, Roland Park, Colleges and Universities
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