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A Word, Please: Better grammar means better jobs?
Creators of a software program called Grammarly recently conducted a study of the grammar used in LinkedIn member profiles. They found that people with fewer grammar errors in their profiles ascended to higher positions, got more promotions and changed...
Tags: Panera Bread Company, LinkedIn Corp.
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Sundance/IFC Promotes Trio of Marketing, Publicity Execs
ReutersApr 24 (TheWrap.com) - A trio of promotions in the AMC Networks-owned companies' marketing and publicity departments were announced on Wednesday. Lauren Schwartz (above, left) has been upped to vice president of publicity, while Shani Ankori (above,...Tags: Pina (movie), Frances Ha (movie), How to Survive a Plague (movie), Sundance Film Festival, Sleepwalk with Me (movie)
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From our files for March 17, 2013
100 Years Ago — 1913 For the first time in many years, no church services were held in Hustonville last Sunday and schools in Moreland, McKinney and Hustonville were closed last week due to an epidemic of measles. Hundreds of cases of a very...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Measles, Christianity, Belief and Faith, Anglicanism
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'The Walking Dead': David Morrissey on the Governor and Elvis
David Morrissey has cast a wide shadow over "The Walking Dead" in its third season as the much anticipated villainous leader known as the Governor. While the character is a sinister presence with a black eye patch and a closet full of zombie heads,...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Politics, Television, Russell T. Davies, Holidays
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50 Years Ago: March 9, 2013
March 9, 1963 FRANKFORT (AP) — About 40 Kentuckians died and about 200,000 were stricken by the Asian flu epidemic that blitzed the state, state epidemiologist J. Clifford Todd said. But the epidemic hit its peak last week and likely will decline...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, High Schools, Schools, Flu, High School Sports
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Steinberg: Football, and other contact sports, need to be rethought
In previous columns, I suggested that the increased size, speed and strength of today's NFL players are creating a dramatically more damaging set of collisions. We have known for years of the devastation these collisions cause on every joint in the human...Tags: Sports, Injuries and Wounds, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Medical Research, General Practitioners
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Maryland can prevent overdose deaths
With epidemic rates of prescription opioid and heroin deaths in Maryland, families are demanding easier access to the antidote that could save the lives of their loved ones. Naloxone is used safely to reverse the effects of heroin and prescription...Tags: Teachers, Chemical Industry, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Prescription Drugs
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FAU to host events for Women's History Month
FAU is hosting a series of events celebrating Women's History Month in March. Events will run through the month of April. See below for a list of events. ‘Our Stories, Our Strength’ Art Show Celebrating Women’s History Month...Tags: Titusville, Space Programs, Rosario Dawson, Minority Groups, Teachers
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Stronger penalties send message about stopping domestic violence
Two and a half years after her estranged husband bashed her skull and tried to strangle her, Holly Driver finally got the justice she worried might never come. Late last month in an Orange County courtroom, Daryl Ray Driver was sentenced to 20 years...
Tags: Punishment, Rentals, Abusive Behavior, Culture, Murder
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'Noble Savages' looks at one anthropologist's life of controversy
In 1998, just before Napoleon Chagnon retired from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he signed a contract to write a book about his life as an anthropologist among the Yanomamö people, who live in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil. It...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Teachers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest
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TED 2013: Larry Brilliant reflects on impact of his TED Prize
Among those in Long Beach for TED 2013 this week is Larry Brilliant, former head of Google.org. Brilliant was an influential epidemiologist and technologist whose life and career was altered in 2006 when he received the TED Prize. The TED Prize was one...
Tags: Larry Page, Kate Winslet, Smallpox , Health Organizations, eBay Inc.
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Addicted to Heroin, Part 2: APD Calls Overdose Deaths An 'Epidemic'
Channel 2 NewsHeroin overdoses have reached an "epidemic" level, according to the Anchorage Police Department. APD Sgt. Kathy Lacey says heroin use is back in force and heroin-related overdoses are claiming more young lives than traffic fatalities. "Heroin has come...Tags: Heroin, Morphine (drug), Drug Trafficking, OxyContin (drug), Methadone (drug)
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