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Seeing The Forest, And The Vanishing Foresters
The Hartford CourantRachel Holmes was an urban forester for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for exactly two years until Thursday, and she didn't go out quietly. The 31-year-old, with two graduate degrees from Yale, spent extra hours working on...Tags: South Windsor, Science and Technology, Lebanon, Forestry and Timber, Natural Resource Industry
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Weight Discrimination: Obesity Presents More Than Just Health Problems
If you're obese (and chances of that are pretty good in America right now), your odds of being found guilty in a jury trial are higher than if you're skinny. If you're an obese woman, things in court can be even uglier. And you do not want to be labeled...
Tags: Medical Research, Windham (Windham, Connecticut), Overweight, Behavioral Conditions, Justice and Rights
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Arizona State dean, pianist to take helm at Columbia College
The dean of Arizona State University’s design and arts school has been named as the 10th president of Columbia College Chicago, the school announced today. Kwang-Wu Kim, a professor of music at Arizona State, was voted in as president by Columbia&...
Tags: Columbia College Chicago, Arizona State University, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment, Education
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Tri-State briefs - Feb. 25
Waynesboro music students to present concert WAYNESBORO, Pa. — Several hundred Waynesboro Area School District music students will present the Music in our Schools concert Tuesday. The concert begins at 7 p.m. in the performing arts center of...Tags: Financial Aid, Entertainment, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Rabies
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Malloy Pulling Rug Out From Under Obamacare
The Hartford CourantGov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed budget could have a potentially devastating effect on health care in Connecticut. The plan could eviscerate the promise of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, even before it is fully implemented. This...Tags: Medicaid, Hospitals and Clinics, Government, Health Insurance, Regional Authority
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Redirecting money after a loan is paid off
Dear Liz: I'll be done paying off my car in a couple of months. What's a good strategy for redirecting that money once it's paid off? Should I use the whole amount each month to start saving for my next car, or would I be better off splitting it up and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Finance, Retirement, Contracts, Insurance
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Northwestern to probe founder's link to Indian massacre
Responding to pressure from a student alliance, Northwestern University has established a committee to investigate the history of John Evans, a university founder connected to one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in the country's history. The...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Politics, Government, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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William D. Waxter III, securities analyst
William Deal Waxter III, a retired securities analyst and World War II veteran, died of a stroke Feb. 11 at Broadmead Retirement Community. The former Roland Park resident was 88.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Lombardy Place, he spent his summers at...Tags: Baltimore County, Electronics, Armed Forces, Arts and Culture, Christianity
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Walters Art Museum names new director, Julia Marciari-Alexander
In naming Julia Marciari-Alexander as executive director on Wednesday, the Walters Art Museum board of directors entrusted one of Baltimore's most important arts institutions to a rising star — and signaled an emphasis on community engagement even...Tags: New York University, Financial Aid, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Bill Johnston, Arts
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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: Nobel Prize Awards, Science, Applied Physics, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Education
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Christopher Durang, Bobby Lopez To Join In Cole Porter Event At Yale
Hartford CourantPlaywright Christopher Durang and director Bobby Lopez will be among those participating in an all-Yale concert presentation of Cole Porter's "Kiss me Kate," celebrating Porter's centennial of his graduation from Yale University in New Haven in 2013....Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Tony Awards, The Book of Mormon (musical), Religion and Belief, Mormonism
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Spurring a Conversation About Faith at Hartford Stage
The new Hartford Stage show Breath & Imagination is living up to its name by breathing fresh air into the music-theater genre and adding imaginative touches to everything from the casting to the post-show discussions. The show is a biography of...
Tags: Debra Jo Rupp, Entertainment, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Paul Robeson, Advice Columns and Columnists
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