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2 hrs ago | WCBSTV.com

Man Suspected In Harvard Shooting Back In Court

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Boston Metro

10 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Hitting A Blue Wall

Michael Cox was an ambitious, up-and-coming Boston police officer when his career and his life hit a wall, literally and figuratively, as he pursued a suspect in an early morning shooting.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Journalism, Criminal Defense Law, Law, University of Connecticut

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Newkerala.com

Why we make social gaffes

Washington, July 4 : Always end up making one faux pas or another, even after trying your best not to make any social gaffe? Well, researchers have now found why it happens.

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Tallahassee.com

America's pluralism project

We need a topic big and serious enough to merit our attention on the Glorious Fourth of July.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform

The Dallas Morning News

'Public Enemies' and other gangster movies reflect the era of their filming

The gangster movie, along with the Western, the musical and the screwball comedy, is among the most enduring American movie genres.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Public Enemy, Dillinger, Biography Movies

Fri Jul 03, 2009

The StarPhoenix

Burning crops darken Arctic sky, speed polar melt

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the loosening of state control over crop burning in Russia has had an unexpected impact in the Canadian North: the unleashing of massive amounts of soot that is settling on Arctic sea ice and speeding the ongoing polar meltdown.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, University of New Hampshire, Science / Technology, NASA

Shanghai Daily

US pigs to aid research into transplants

FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor said yesterday.

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WBZ TV

Sweet Appointed Vanderbilt CFO

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Related Topix: Nashville Metro, Vanderbilt University

Pittsburgh Tribune

Hot picks: Butterflies at Phipps, Vans Warped Tour

Phipps Conservatory once again is aflutter with butterflies. Adults and children can watch as butterflies emerge from cocoons and venture out to dine amidst the lush tropical plantings of the Stove Room.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, Oakland (Pittsburgh, PA), Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Theater, Arts, Strip District (Pittsburgh, PA)

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Hispanic Business

National Recipients of Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards to Receive HP Laptop PCs, Printers for College

WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- The Hispanic Heritage Foundation announced today that HP will provide each of the national recipients of the prestigious Youth Awards leadership program and the national Hispanic Heritage Teacher Award honoree an HP technology bundle during a special ceremony to be held at Bongo's in Miami on ...

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Printers, Miami, FL, Coral Gables, FL

Mass High Tech

3Com spawns a startup legacy, 30 years later

Thirty years ago this week, MIT and Harvard University alum Bob Metcalfe took his idea for a less expensive and more open way to link computers - Ethernet - and founded 3Com Corp.

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Related Topix: Computers, 3Com, Marlborough, NH, Boston Metro

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Privacy control clean-up at Facebook

Facebook is trying to simplify how users control their privacy on the social networking site, acknowledging that the process has become too complicated.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, San Francisco Metro

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Bloomberg

Harvard's Feldstein Sees Renewed Economic Slump After `Temporary' Rebound

The U.S. economy will grow for a few quarters and then contract again, said Martin Feldstein , a professor of economics at Harvard University.

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SanLuisObispo.com

Health-reform cost estimates likely to be unreliable, experts warn

The fate of White House and congressional efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system is likely to depend on the price tag, but there's no precise, reliable way to estimate the cost.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, Democrat, Medicare, Health

SF Sentinel

Arab World Bloggers More Wary of Their Leaders Than of Israel

Ordinarily, we in Israel examine the Arab world from the political and security point of view.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Terrorism

Tue Jun 30, 2009

The Columbian

Facts about Sen.-elect Al Franken

Al Franken AGE-BIRTHDATE - 58; May 21, 1951. HOMETOWN - Born in New York City; Raised in St.

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Related Topix: Al Franken, St. Louis Park, MN, Rush Limbaugh

Wimmera Mail Times

Soft power: Jackson and a new anthem ...

Together with the worldwide outpouring of grief ranging from mass dance tributes in a Philippines prison to an Eiffel Tower moonwalk, the death of Michael Jackson has brought an extraordinary collection of tributes from world political figures.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Hugo Chavez, George Bush

The New York Observer

In the Battle Between Facebook and MySpace, A Digital 'White Flight'

This morning, Danah Boyd was spitting out the social media Kool-Aid at Personal Democracy Forum .

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Related Topix: Social Software

Detroit Free Press

High court curves in conservative direction

In the term that ended Monday, the Supreme Court shifted more to the right, making it harder for people to bring civil rights claims, rejecting challenges by environmentalists and raising the standard for older workers alleging bias on the job.

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Related Topix: US News, Stanford University, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito

Mon Jun 29, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Get close to history in Boston

Harvard University is across the Charles River from Boston. If you go Not every restaurant in Boston is old.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, US Travel, Travel, Boston Travel, Charlestown (Boston, MA), Life, Food, Dining, Charles River Associates, Consulting

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