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Alexander Hoffmann, a lawyer who aided a generation of leaders on the political left in California, including Cesar Chavez, the Black Panthers and Lenny Bruce, died at his Oakland home Oct.

Kathryn M. Lohre, assistant director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America representative to the World Council of Churches Central Committee, has been elected the President Elect of the National Council of Churches by the NCC Governing Board.

There are college towns. And then there is Cambridge. Off Massachusetts Avenue, just a short walk from Boston's famed Newbury Street shopping district, sits the massive brain power of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bitterness describes more than just the cold weather experienced by a group of Mormons on their trek across the Midwest.

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA -- Library Journal, 11/5/2009 Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories When conversations turn to the spiraling costs of higher education, it's inevitable that critics will point to the occasional examples of excess created in an effort to stay competitive in ...

Sales at Henrietta-based Vuzix Inc. have taken off, mostly because Oprah Winfrey said one word: "Amazing." Actually, Winfrey said three words on her Oct.

Adam Levine a 08, a Rhodes scholar currently studying for a Ph.D at the University of Oxford, has noticed something about the composition of his current group of peers.

Israel Gelfand left Russia in 1989 and moved to the United States, taking up posts at Harvard and MIT.

WAM Dubai, 8th Nov. 2009 - As the region emerges from the global economic crisis, CEOs perceive diversification as the biggest opportunity to improve competitiveness in the GCC, according to Dr.

Boston Herald General Economics Reporter Jay Fitzgerald has been a journalist and blogger for years.

A couple of weeks ago, when Harvard University withdrew its invitation to Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist to speak at a forum on immigration, Gilchrist could be heard whining that he was being unfairly smeared for his incendiary rhetoric.

We hypothesize that startups can enhance their early performance by 1) establishing alliances, 2) configuring them into an efficient network that provides access to diverse information and capabilities with minimum costs of redundancy, conflict, and complexity, and 3) judiciously allying with potential rivals that provide more opportunity for ...

Kumon opens its largest and first after-school program in the West Village on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from noon to 4 p.m. at 80 Carmine Street .

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 A study published this week in PNAS provides a comprehensive comparative functional anatomy study in human and monkey brains which reveals highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution.

The music of singer, songwriter and pianist Rachel Efron is known for its poetic lyrics and soulful tunes.

The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.

What I'm Seeing This Week A Christmas Carol , Pirate Radio , and The Box . My quick thoughts on each; I don't quite get why Jim Carrey had to play eight parts in Christmas Carol , Pirate Radio evidently had huge problems before finally getting a new title and release date, and Cameron Diaz threw out a major spoiler for The Box when I was at The San ...

New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale have told India they are ready to join efforts to start 'world class' universities in the country, government officials said today.

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

Experts say that major causes of car accidents are driver distractions. Such distractions include cell phones, rubbernecking, tailgating, driver fatigue, etc.