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8 hrs ago | Wcbs880.com

Suspect in UConn Stabbing Back in Court

A Superior Court judge could decide this week whether to open the files of a 21-year-old Bloomfield man accused of fatally stabbing a University of Connecticut football player.

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12 hrs ago | NewsTarget.com

Breast Cancer Deception Month: Hiding the Truth beneath a Sea of Pink, Part V

As we near the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, once again our country has been awash from shore to shore in a sea of pink - from pink ribbons and donation boxes to pink products, charity promotions, celebrities by the score and even pink cleats on NFL players.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer

Sat Nov 07, 2009

CiteULike

Gender and Negotiation: Some Experimental Findings from an...

KSippl Abstract Increasingly, scholars have taken note of the tendency for women to conceptualize issues such as security, peace, war, and the use of military force in different ways than their male counterparts.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Review: Vivian Girls, Real Estate, Math the Band at UConn: Eric R. Danton | Sound Check

After hype comes backlash, and once the Vivian Girls garnered acclaim from Pitchfork and other hipster publications, haters tried to knock them down by assailing their musical chops.

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Related Topix: Indie, The Girls, Connecticut

Thu Nov 05, 2009

WTIC-TV Hartford

UConn Ranks High In Survey On Sexual Health Resources

OK, so it's not the U.S. News and World Report on colleges, but the University of Connecticut just whupped Yale, Harvard and Princeton in the Fourth Annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card.

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Related Topix: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Medicine, Health, Brigham Young University, Providence College, DePaul University, Human Sexuality

Wed Nov 04, 2009

WPKT-FM Hartford

The Summer without Tomatoes- Planning for Next Year 2010 on Gardening With Nature

You say tomato, I say ... Now that the gardening season is grinding down to a halt after a few hard frosts, it time to look forwards to another year.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Agriculture, Science, Potatoes, Life, Food, Vegetables

Hartford Advocate

Sending health care messages

And they say kids don't care about health care. A bunch of social activist types staged a pro-health care reform rally on the University of Connecticut campus Wednesday afternoon, hoping toexplain to Joe Lieberman and others why they care about this issue.

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Related Topix: Storrs, CT, Health Insurance, Health

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Detroit News

: Richard Hamilton in Huskies heaven

There was an interesting sidelight to Detroit's game last week in Memphis. And for a change, it didn't revolve around Allen Iverson.

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Related Topix: Sports, NBA Basketball, Detroit Pistons, Richard Hamilton, NBA Players, Hasheem Thabeet, Memphis Grizzlies, Rudy Gay, Opinion

International Herald Tribune

Creative Consolidation Emerges From 2 Big Deals

What a difference a day makes. Just on Monday in "Searching for Themes in the M.&A. Market," I reviewed the dreary figures and transactions in the mergers and acquisitions market last month and noted the absence of discernable trends.

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Related Topix: Appliances, Household Products, Stanley Works, Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance, Construction, Investment Services, Railroads, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Law

Miller-McCune

Looking Back In Anger

ACTUP SF marches to a dangerous drummer, denying, against the vast preponderance of scientific evidence, that HIV causes AIDS.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Life, Hobbies, Conspiracy Theory, Activism, Journalism, World News, South Africa, Africa

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Queerty

Should "Im Gay" License Plate Be Allowed? a Rio Knows Gay Pride

ON OUR GAYDAR a ' News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. Oklahoma Tax Commission sued by a one Keith Kimmel, who wants his license plate to read "IM GAY.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Virginia Foxx, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Wedding, University of South Carolina

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Hartford Courant

We Are Not Guilty In Howard's Death

The eloquent but misguided Michelle M. Gonzalez is very mistaken in her statement that the citizens of Connecticut owe a debt to Jasper Howard's family ["Howard Family's Loss Is Our Failure," Your View, Oct.

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Related Topix: Opinion, Ansonia, CT

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Free Republic

Doug Hoffman, Ordinary American

The Nov. 3 election to replace longtime Rep. John McHugh, a Republican appointed by President Obama to be Secretary of the Army, has especially drawn the attention of conservatives in recent weeks.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John McHugh, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Connecticut Post

Dulin jailed again for probation violation

Former youth sports coach Robert Dulin, who served 18 months in prison for having a sexual relationship with a female player, was sent back to jail for 90 days Friday.

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Related Topix: Milford, CT

Winchendon Courier

The spirits are active

Local lore ... or lingering locals? by Chris Tanguay write the author October 29, 2009 In the 1860s, while the nation was elsewhere engaged the bloodiest war ever fought on United States soil, a Southbridge selectman named Manning Leonard, a prominent businessman of the time, resided in a luxurious home on Elm Street.

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Related Topix: Southbridge, MA, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

WTIC-TV Hartford

Swine Flu Adds To List Of Precautions On Halloween

Should the swine flu curb your Halloween festivities? Between Halloween parties, trick-or-treating and sharing candy, the season seems fraught with germ-spreading opportunities.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Life, Holidays, Halloween, Education Etc., Middlefield, CT, Durham, CT

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Wick-Qua-Boag Weekender

Trick or Treat hours

All times for Saturday, Oct. 31 * Southbridge - Horribles Parade from Wells Middle School to the Town Common 5-5:30 p.m.; Trick-or-Treat 5:30-7:30 p.m. * Sturbridge - Trick-or-Treat 5-7 p.m.; Horribles Parade from Town Hall to Town Common at 7 p.m. * Charlton - 5:30-7:30 p.m. * Brimfield - 4-7 p.m. * Wales - 4-7 p.m. Texas law on children seeing ...

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Related Topix: Southbridge, MA, Sturbridge, MA, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

WTIC-TV Hartford

UConn Student Charged With Internet Threats In Stabbing Probe

A University of Connecticut student faces a host of charges after he allegedly posted comments on internet message boards that threatened potential witnesses to the murder of UConn football player Jasper "Jazz" Howard.

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Related Topix: Wethersfield, CT, Rockville, CT

WTIC-TV Hartford

Gov. Rell's Staff Got Advance Peek At Q Poll Results

The director of the Quinnipiac University Poll this summer gave advance results to Gov.

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Related Topix: M. Jodi Rell, US Governors, Apparel, Kenneth Cole Productions, Footwear, Hamden, CT

Wed Oct 28, 2009

USA Today

Make the healthy diet choice the easy choice

Dieters can boost their weight loss if they clean up their act at home and get a partner to lose weight with them, a new study shows.

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Related Topix: Dieting, Life, Food

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