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Prospective freshmen and their families attending Admit Weekend, which begins Thursday, will start the day at the Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Under the new guidelines, inmates that were sentenced under laws that have since changed, have served at least 10 years of their sentence and are nonviolent may be re-examined by the Justice Department and suggested to the president for clemency.

A study found that people who feel like a million bucks tend to act like they have it, as if they belong in a higher social class.

One of the best parts about researching small-cap stocks is coming across a fantastic niche business that most investors have yet to hear about.

"Filled with unexpected twists, unconventional allies and a master-mind villain who makes hired killers look like kindergarten teachers.

Legislators try every year to address trafficking. Seventy-six bills and resolutions on human trafficking have been introduced in the 113th Congress so far.

In 2011, Lytro Inc dazzled the consumer gadget world when it introduced a pocket flashlight-sized gizmo that could take "living" pictures - images that could be refocused after the shutter clicked.

The US Food and Drug Administration has suggested that surgeons refrain from using tissue-grinding tools to remove uteruses or uterine growths because they increase the risk of spreading undetected cancer.

All is not well with our Mother Earth this Earth Day. We must focus on solutions to the crisis of our warming planet if our species is to escape this century safely.

When the blood-brain barrier is disrupted by a severe head injury, the blood protein albumin leaks into the brain and activates the TGF-beta receptor on astrocytes , which triggers a cascade of events leading to inflammation.

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Liberals advocate many wonderful things. In fact, I suspect that most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world envisioned by liberals, rather than in the kind of world envisioned by conservatives.

Foreign aid for health care is directly linked to an increase in life expectancy and a decrease in child mortality in developing countries, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.

California's climate, remoteness, and left-wing politics can make it seem to many like a separate country.

Over the next two weeks, I will be doing talks about my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter , at Stanford Law School, and at the Austin, Texas lawyers division chapter of the Federalist Society.

EVEN as the Ministry of Education considers how best to adjust the Primary School Leaving Examination scoring system, a question gnawing away at the back of the minds of some is whether a national examination at age 12 is necessary at all.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

Throughout the arduous college application process, Brown University was on the top of Madeline Anderson's wish list.

It was a front-page story revealing that at some selective colleges the number of applicants on the wait-list approached, and sometimes exceeded, the number of applicants accepted.

"They teach 21st century skills," he said. "They teach the ability to communicate, to adapt, to work in teams and solve problems, to analyze and conceptualize, to manage one's self, to create, innovate and criticize."