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ScienceBlogs Channel : Politics  

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Via Thoreau , a story at Free Range Kids about "zero tolerance" policy run amok , this time from someone who moved to the US as a kid and ran up against the modern school culture in a bad way: Once again, I came from a culture where you were m...
 
         

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com  

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It's back-to-books time at college campuses across the country, but you don't have to pass the entrance exams to enjoy an enriching visit to these brainy-but-beautiful institutions. The campuses at the head of the class combine factors li...
 
         

In Case You Didn't Know  

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Vanessa Hudgens , star of High School Musical , got into a fender bender accident on Wednesday afternoon. She backed into an oncoming vehicle. Vanessa was backing out of the CVS parking lot when she smacked into a...
 
         

L.A. Times - California | Local News  

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The group, including the presidents of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Greater L.A., urges the use of student test score data and more access to information about instructors for families. A group of business and civic leaders is...
 
         

TheGloss  

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It’s 9/02/10 today! However, the myriad fashion and style lessons I learned from Beverly Hills, 90210 cannot be contained in a mere day. Thanks to Kelly, Brenda, Donna, and sometimes Andrea, I learned a lot about how to dress for the prom, w...
 
         

TaxProf Blog  

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Mark J. Perry (University of Michigan-Flint, School of Management), The Higher Education Bubble Is About to Burst (CarpeDiem): Note that the housing bubble resulted from about a 4-time increase in home prices between 1978 and 2006, and college tuition has now increased by more than twice that amount since 1978...
 
         

io9  

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# scifi101 Science fiction is a genre of limitless possibilities, but that doesn't mean there aren't a few ideas writers keep coming back to as trusty old standbys. Here are ten of science fiction's most common tropes...and how they've evolved. More »
 
         

Business Insider  

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You might have heard--- on this site, no less ---that an MBA is no longer pertinent to an entrepreneur. Some of the poster boys of entrepreneurial success--Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Mark Zuckerberg--declined to complete their undergraduate...
 
         

videos - Channel 9  

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Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 2 By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.   In this second part, Peter finishes the first "demo" lecture of the F#-based programming language course (started in ...
 
         

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News  

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They're constructing bigger and more-elaborate campuses to attract applicants and professors and climb higher in magazine rankings
 
         

Jezebel  

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# reachoutandtouch Sorry, what was that about the Tea Party being all about economic and not social issues? Not only has this year brought Sharron "lemons into lemonade for rape vic...
 
         

Deadspin  

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# collegefootball Tonight, Texas A&M-Kingsville kicks off the season at Northwest Missouri State, in a continuance of the epic D-II rivalry. (Maybe. I don't know.) One mainstay that will be absent: the traditional Tossing Of The Tortillas after Kingsville touchdowns. More »
 
         

Fox News (World)  

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A history teacher has been suspended in France, for spending too much time teaching students about the Holocaust.
 
         

INHABITAT  

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Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies...
 
         

Greg Mankiw's Blog  

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My freshman seminar starts today.  Here are the books we are reading this year (in this order): The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbronr Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, by John McMillan Thinking Strategically, by ...
 
         

msnbc.com: Weird news  

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Breast cancer awareness bracelets reading "I Love Boobies" have been banned at a South Dakota high school. KDLT-TV's Melissa Payne reports. (NBC News Channel)
 
         

Mount Vernon News  

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MOUNT VERNON --While growing up, nearly every kid dreams of playing a sport in a big-time arena. Whatever the sport, kids dream of playing for their favorite college or pro team.
 
         

Super Punch  

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Don Clark drew this for his daughter's first day of kindergarten. It's available as a $12 print here . (I'll be living this with my son in about a week.) * By lunch boxes at Amazon.
 
         

ScienceBlogs Channel : Education  

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Over at Inside Higher Ed, there's a list of "survival tips" for women entering grad school in the sciences . It's a pretty good and pretty typical list of advice-- you can find more or less the same advice posted somewhere every fall. What's str...
 
         

The Consumerist  

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One of the most important lessons students learn in college is how to get into debt and stay there. It's crucial to the success of the Republic. An indebted population is easier to control; needing to pay off ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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