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Anthony Madrid Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Poetry and Web Conjunctions. His first book is “I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say.” Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai is...Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago, Camden (Camden, North Carolina), WTTW, Elections, Chicago Public Library
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The Hartford, MIT Study Benefits Of Exercise On Older Drivers
The Hartford CourantA study by The Hartford Financial Services Group and MIT found that drivers in their 60s and early 70s who performed specific exercises improved their physical ability to drive a car. Those who took part in the study found that their ability to move...Tags: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Prizing success in aerospace innovation
The future economic growth and competitiveness of the United States depends on our capacity to innovate. Many ideas have emerged from government, industry and academia regarding how best to inspire and support innovation. But nothing spurs creativity...
Tags: Transportation, Travel, Science and Technology, Microsoft Corporation, Science
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After Boston tragedy, a nation offers support and solidarity
After two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon and shook the nation, Americans took to social media to express their grief and solidarity with the victims. At least three people were killed and 144 injured. Within hours, #PrayForBoston was trending,...
Tags: Ben Revere, Marlins Park, Google Inc., Sports, Keith Yandle
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Is a Rebranded UCONN Huskies Logo All About Selling More Merch?
So you don’t get confused, what with all the high-powered lobbying and marketing going on right now, University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst wants you to know her school isn’t just some corporate promotional product. “We’...
Tags: Long Island University, Basketball, Sports, Connecticut Huskies, University of California, Los Angeles
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CME Group data flap shuts down regulator's research program
ReutersCME Group has claimed that the top U.S. derivatives regulator improperly shared sensitive market data with outside researchers who published academic papers about high-frequency trading. A Dec. 14, 2012 letter from CME Group Inc., the largest U.S....Tags: Labor Legislation, Freedom of Information Act, CME Group Inc., Career and Workplace, Research
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Area runners at Boston Marathon talk about bombing
"I'm not sure I've ever felt so helpless," said Sonny Lowe of Williamsburg, recounting Monday's horror at the Boston Marathon when two bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring more than 140 others. Nearly 20 people from the Peninsula were...
Tags: Running, Sports, Boston Marathon, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Cell Phones
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Transit cop shot in Boston bombing chase recovering, cracking jokes
Richard “Dic” Donohue Jr. came to the edge of death after a bullet to his right thigh severed his femoral vein and artery. The 33-year-old Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer from Woburn, Mass., lost his entire blood supply...
Tags: Shootings, Sports, Sean Collier, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John McCain, Medicaid, George W. Bush, Science and Technology
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Resort airports in stormy SE Asia leave safety to chance
Reuters* Bali crash highlights risk of turbulent winds on landing * Southeast Asia's top holiday spots lack critical wind shear alerts * Bali airport traffic controllers over-worked, official says By Neil Chatterjee and Trisha Sertori JAKARTA/DENPASAR,...Tags: Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Disasters and Accidents, Boeing Co., Transportation Accidents
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Cheaters never prosper, and neither does anyone else
Ever feel like you were the one doing all the work while everyone else just sat back and enjoyed the fruits of your hard labor? Well then you might appreciate the plight of those lowly yeast cells that work overtime breaking down table sugar into...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Barack Obama, Satellite Technology, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., NASA, Space Programs
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