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3 hrs ago | TheDay.Com - UConn

In Good Times And Bad, Dairy Farmers Must Keep To Their Daily Routine

There is a rhythm to dairy farms that exists in spite of the volatility that surrounds them.

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12 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, Harvard University

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Connecticut Post

Top UConn officials to get 'deferred' compensation

University of Connecticut trustees have approved a policy that allows the school to pay the university president and other senior executives deferred compensation.

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Related Topix: Connecticut

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Boston.com

Scientists using weevils to combat invasives

Connecticut scientists have called upon an unlikely champion in their war on invasive plants, releasing 1,000 tiny, weed-eating weevils in a section of Quinnipiac River State Park that is overrun by the destructive mile-a-minute vine.

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Related Topix: Connecticut, Agriculture, Science, North Haven, CT, Entomology

New Hampshire Magazine

"Northward Bound" Summer Chamber Concert

International Musical Arts Institute's 'Northward Bound' Summer Chamber Concert at St.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Non-Profit, World News, Brazil, Cambridge, MA, Canada

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Day

'Something ... bigger than any one of us'

An audience of Coast Guardsmen and first responders gathered at Coast Guard Station New London Thursday to recognize Lt.

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Related Topix: New London Metro, New London, CT

Tue Jun 30, 2009

WPKT-FM Hartford

Legal Expert Reacts to New Haven 20 Decision on WNPR Regional Coverage

The U.S Supreme Court has ruled in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters who sued the city because they were denied promotion.

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Related Topix: New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro, US News, US Supreme Court

Sun Jun 28, 2009

American Chronicle

Judy Collins - A Life of Fame, Pain and Healing

Judy Collins can t remember life without music. Nor would she ever want to. "I was raised in a home where music was our bread and butter as well as our pleasure.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Folk, Judy Collins, Mozart, Classical, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Children TV, Animated TV, Sesame Street, Opinion

The Day

Small Biotech Takes Root In NL

In LifePharms' New London laboratory, Felicity Acca works with cell plates containing compounds derived from mushrooms, the main focus of the firm's research.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, New London Metro, New London, CT, University of Illinois Chicago, Norwich, CT

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Jan Samachar

AIDS, alcohol abuse dip in 3 Mumbai slums after awareness drive

The project "RISHTA" was undertaken in Mankhurd, Cheeta Camp and Bainganwadi slums in north-east Mumbai between 2001-2007, by the International Institute for Population Sciences in partnership with several other Indian and international organisations, including the University of Connecticut, according to a project spokesman.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health

Thu Jun 25, 2009

POZ

(Un)deniable Evidence: A college professor takes on AIDS naysayers in his latest book

A college professor takes on AIDS naysayers in his latest book. Despite overwhelming scientific findings, some people remain convinced that HIV doesn't cause AIDS and that antiretrovirals are toxic poisons.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, World News, South Africa, Africa

Wed Jun 24, 2009

HON

Music Had Charms to Soothe Prehistoric Man

The discovery of a cache of prehistoric flutes suggests that music soothed the savage beast in early man as far back as 35,000 years ago.

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Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, Archaeology, Anthropology

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Slate Magazine

They Don't Teach Med Students the Difference Between Medicare and Medicaid?

What are medical students taught about health policy? When Daniel Henderson was a first-year medical student at the University of Connecticut, he wanted to take a class on health care policy.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Health Care Policy, Medicaid, George Washington University

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Newsday.com

Son, colleagues recall Stony Brook prof killed in crash

Dr. Edward Carr in the psychology building at Stony Brook University. / January 5, 2006) Aaron Carr had planned on going to university orientation on Thursday with his parents.

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Related Topix: Port Jefferson, NY

The Daily Standard

Former UConn star helps at Celina camp

Mel Thomas was probably a little nervous when she was talking to the group of girls basketball players on Monday at the Celina Fieldhouse, as it was her first speech in front of a group.

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Related Topix: High School Basketball, Ohio High School Basketball News, Celina, OH

Sun Jun 21, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Extraordinary Life: UConn Biologist Carl Rettenmeyer

A summer job during college gave Carl Rettenmeyer a passion that dominated his life and led to his expertise in New World tropical army ants.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science, Apiculture, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, University of Kansas

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Newsday.com

Sounding the alarm for early cancer testing

The video pulses with the Black Eyed Peas song "Boom Boom Pow" while the message flashes on screen: "Pay attention to your family history! Dying before 50 from cancer is NOT normal! ... Make your family history clear to your doctor! Yell at them!" Then a young woman appears, fit and sexy in a red sports bra, to tell you about her double mastectomy ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Oncology

Fri Jun 19, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Lawmakers Bail Out UConn Health Center: 4th Time Since 2000: Capitol Watch

As the state faces huge projected deficits for the next two years, the state legislature voted Friday to bail out the cash-strapped University of Connecticut Health Center for the fourth time since 2000.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, US News, M. Jodi Rell, US Governors

Ctnewsjunkie.com

State Won't Charge Cromwell Lawmaker

June 17, 2009 4:29 PM Posted to General News The State Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that a veteran Cromwell lawmaker will not be charged in connection with the January freezing death of a Rocky Hill woman.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Rocky Hill, CT, New Britain, CT

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Track & Field News

Trainers' Association Issues High School Heat Guidelines

NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS' ASSOCIATION RELEASES 'PRESEASON HEAT-ACCLIMATIZATION GUIDELINES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETICS' CONSENSUS STATEMENT Key strategies offered to reduce the number of heat-related athletic injuries among secondary school student athletes NBA Hall of Famer George Gervin, founder of San Antonio charter school and youth center, ...

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, San Antonio Metro, Education Etc.

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