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33 min ago | Freerepublic.com

Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Dinosaur

4 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News

Editorial: EPA appointment could be coup for clean air

The Environmental Protection Agency sent a strong message with its appointment of Al Armendariz to the region's top post: It's time to clear the air.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Texas, Opinion

14 hrs ago | Business Wire

ElectraTherm Completes $5.4 Million in Additional Funding

ElectraTherm, Inc. today announced the successful completion of additional funding totaling $5.4 million.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Fort Collins Coloradoan

Dr. Loren D. Miller

Loren Deane Miller passed on peacefully asleep on October 29, 2009. Loren was born to George Leroy Miller and Laura Ernestine Thrall on May 13, 1926, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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Related Topix: Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Metro, Stanford University, Colorado College, Fort Collins Metro

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Philanthropy Journal

Bush Library fundraising tops $200 million...

Bush Library fundraising tops $200 million Former President George W. Bush has raised $212 million of $300 million for the library at Southern Methodist University that will house his papers, The Dallas Morning News reported Nov.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Arts, Opera

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

Smu professor named new Epa regional chief for Texas, four other states 2:34 PM CT

Dr. Al Armendariz, a Southern Methodist University engineering professor who has sharply criticized federal and state regulators for not cracking down hard enough on North Texas air polluters, has been named the Environmental Protection Agency's new regional administrator over Texas and four other states.

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Related Topix: Texas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Wed Nov 04, 2009

LawJobs.com

Public Defender Glides Between Courtroom and Ballet Studio

By day, Valerie Shelton-Tabor serves as an assistant public defender in the Dallas County Public Defender's Office .

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Texas, University of Oklahoma

Physics Blog

Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Paleontology, Scanners, Glen Rose, TX, Physics

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Odessa American Online

Bush assists Bynum School

MIDLAND Former first lady Laura Bush was greeted by a chorus of Bynum School students, serenading her with "Happy Birthday" on video, shortly before she took the podium at the Midland Center Tuesday evening.

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Related Topix: W., Laura Bush, Maine, Barbara Bush, George Bush

Mon Nov 02, 2009

KERA-TV Dallas

Review: Dallas Theater Center Debuts at the Wyly

For its debut in its new home in the Wyly Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center has taken William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - and pumped up the volume.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Wedding

Dallas Business Journal

Survey: North Texas CEOs fairly optimistic

Chief executive officers of Dallas-Fort Worth companies by and large have a favorable outlook when it comes to the local area's economic future, according to the latest SMU Cox CEO Sentiment Survey.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Examiner.com

f you liked the Bush presidency, you'll love the Bush Policy Institute

For those in the know, there was little surprise in the selection of Southern Methodist University to host the Bush Presidential Center.

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Related Topix: W., Laura Bush, US Politics, US News, George Bush, Marketing

Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

Starlight Halloween carnival gives kids, parents a break from medical treatments

Watching brothers Zion, 6, and Urion, 8, race about gathering Halloween treats, it's hard to imagine they suffer from a major illness.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Halloween, Family, Kids, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Dallas Morning News

SMU student body president leads alcohol program

A new alcohol prevention and training program is designed to give Southern Methodist University students a larger stake in the school's efforts to change its campus culture.

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Student Printz

Racism in Mississippi: an outside view

From the outside looking in, Mississippi appears to be evolving more slowly than other states in the area of race relations.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Public Relations, University of Pittsburgh

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Austin American-Statesman

Why do execs share privileged info?

Senior executives aren't supposed to blab about their companies' innermost secrets to outsiders - but sometimes they do.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices, Startups, Criminal Defense Law, Law

KWTX

Sentencing Underway for Paroled Murder, Drug Dealer In SMU Coed's Death

Construction workers found Meaghan Bosch's body on May 14, 2007 inside of a portable toilet in Hewitt.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Hewitt, TX, Waco, TX, Waco Metro

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Denton Record-Chronicle

5th Court of Appeals Chief Justice Linda Thomas set to move on after 30 years as a judge

When 30-year-old Linda Thomas took the bench Jan. 1, 1979, she was touted as the youngest judge in Dallas.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, University of Texas at Arlington

Denton Record-Chronicle

Paroled murderer and drug dealer McDaniel to be sentenced today in death of SMU student Bosch

The paroled murderer and drug dealer who was found responsible this past summer for the 2007 overdose death of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch will be sentenced by a federal judge this morning.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Waco, TX, Hewitt, TX, Waco Metro

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Science Blog

Snail fossils suggest semiarid eastern Canary Islands were wetter 50,000 years ago

Fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands show that the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa has become progressively drier over the past 50,000 years.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Science, Paleontology

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