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3 hrs ago | Walta Information Centre

Professor Jeffrey Sachs briefs foreign ministers on MDGs - Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:03

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Director of the Earth Institute of Columbia University, gave a breakfast briefing this morning to Foreign Ministers.

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7 hrs ago | Chambersburg Public Opinion

Mercersburg Academy graduation Saturday

Mercersburg Academy's 120th Commencement exercises will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. on the platform between Keil Hall and South Cottage on campus.

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Related Topix: United States Naval Academy, Penn State University Park, Bucknell University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Opinion

11 hrs ago | Canada.com

Women want it all - " when they're ovulating, anyway. Study links fertility to a desire for variety

When choosing between two evils, Mae West quipped that she always picked the one she'd never tried before.

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Related Topix: Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream

15 hrs ago | India.com

'India's Growth Strategy Has Lessons For Developing Nations'

Washington: India's strategy of eradicating poverty by "growing the pie rather than slicing it", and fuelling the country's growth with market-based policies holds lessons for other developing countries, suggest two leading Indian-American economists.

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Fri May 24, 2013

The Weekly Standard

Progressives with Bombs

At one point in The Company You Keep , Robert Redford's new film about the residue of the Weather Underground, a character named Sharon Solarz is captured by the FBI after living under a series of aliases since her involvement in a Michigan bank robbery decades earlier in which a security guard was killed.

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Related Topix: The Company You Keep, New York University

The Huffington Post

Alison Winfield Burns: Apricot: Last Chance to View Camille at The Met

"It's about relationships!" Richard Phillips says to me one afternoon during a figure painting class at Columbia University.

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Related Topix: Arts, Painting

MarketWatch

Politics not keeping up with debt burden: Hubbard

And now the U.S. faces a financial imbalance that threatens its world leadership as an economy and a power, says Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in a new book, 'Balance,' coauthored with Tim Kane, the chief economist of the Hudson Institute.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Social Security, Personal Finance, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Economics News, Pension, Bankruptcy

Streetsblog

After Bike-Share Launches and the Dust Settles, Remember the NIMBY Frenzy

Resistance to a major transportation policy change -- in this case, congestion pricing -- is most intense right when the new initiative takes effect.

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Wireless Design & Development

Stitching Defects into World's Thinnest Semiconductor

In pioneering new research at Columbia University , scientists have grown high-quality crystals of molybdenum disulfide , the world's thinnest semiconductor, and studied how these crystals stitch together at the atomic scale to form continuous sheets.

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Related Topix: Cornell University

The Hartford Courant

Calling On Dr. Ruth About Her Play At TheaterWorks

The doorbell of the apartment in a modest brick building in a quiet residential neighborhood in Washington Heights rings like Big Ben announcing the queen.

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Related Topix: Washington Heights, NY, Human Sexuality, Queens, NY, New York, NY, Israel, World News, Middle East, Entertainment, Hartford, CT

The Huffington Post

Bill O'Reilly: 'I'm The Fairest Guy On The Planet'

Bill O'Reilly described himself as "the fairest guy on the planet" in a heated exchange Thursday with HuffPost Live host and Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill over the IRS scandal .

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Thu May 23, 2013

Examiner.com

Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels myth of incompetence in 'The Men Who Lost America'

Professor O'Shaughnessy is the Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies and a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Virginia, who explains that his interest in America was prompted by his visits here as a young man when his father taught at Columbia University in New York.

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Related Topix: Virginia, University of Virginia

New York Daily News

This Columbia medical grad has become a doctor of culture, as well

Camila Mateo laughs with her roommates, Julie Endrizzi and Steve Situ before their graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Pediatrics, Inwood, NY

Burlington Times News

Guide to Elon's graduation

Elon University's 123rd commencement will take place on Saturday with more than 1,170 undergraduates and a host of ceremonies involving graduate programs.

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Related Topix: Elon, NC, Elon University, Weather

NewsBusters.org

Student Loan Hype: Networks Focus on Debts 245 Percent Higher than Average

Recent college grads are in a tough spot, with student loans that need repayment and an economy that is leaving many of them underemployed or worse.

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Fox News

Heat-related deaths may increase with climate change

Heat-related deaths in New York City's borough of Manhattan may rise about 20 percent over the next decade, according to a new study.

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Related Topix: Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Global Warming

UC San Diego

Investing in the Future: UC San Diego's Federal Research Funding...

A study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year.

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Related Topix: UC San Diego, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin Madison

News Democrat

RHS graduation filled with memories and hope for the future

From left to right are Russellville High School's Class of 2013 third-ranked student Chelsea Jenkins, Valedictorian Rebecca Orndorff, Valedictorian Kesi Neblett and Salutatorian Troy Adams.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Murray State University, Bowling Green, KY, Western Kentucky University, US Military, US Army, United States Military Academy

China Daily

US, Chinese law schools to deepen collaboration

Wang Xixin, deputy dean and professor of law at Peking University Law School, spoke at the memorandum of understanding signing ceremony held earlier this month.

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Related Topix: Travel, Beijing, China Travel, Asia Travel, China Travel

MediLexicon

Advance Made In Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, Physics, Science, Astronomy, Brown University, Health