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3 hrs ago | Northern Virginia Daily

Leadership among top things learned at military academies

Sisters Ashley, left, and Allyson McManus, 18, of Middletown, share a smile during an interview Thursday.

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Related Topix: Front Royal, VA, Woodstock, VA, Vanderbilt University, Pratt Institute, US Military, US Air Force

5 hrs ago | The Washington Post

Paul Tudor Jones: In macro trading, babies are a 'killer' to a woman's focus

Paul Tudor Jones , the hedge fund billionaire, told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others that it is difficult for mothers to be successful traders because connecting with a child is a focus "killer." As long as women continue having children, he said, the industry is likely to be dominated by men.

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9 hrs ago | Gadling

A Traveler In The Foreign Service: What Impact Does Moving Have On Children?

If you're a parent who is interested in an international career, you've probably worried at one point or another what impact your peripatetic lifestyle will have on your kids.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

10 hrs ago | Chemical & Engineering News

Microwaves Distinguish Mirror-Image Compounds

The electric dipole moments, shown as arrows, of these two enantiomers of 1,2-propanediol are alike in all but one respect: The dipole moments along the C -axis point in opposite directions.

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science, Harvard University, Physics

13 hrs ago | Nature Neuroscience

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, University of Virginia

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia seeks creative and energetic applicants for a tenure-track faculty position.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Biology, Science, Charlottesville, VA

14 hrs ago | The Hook

Spotlight on Bentivar Comments

Location: Bentivar Price range: $345,000-$1,200,000 Schools: Baker-Butler, Sutherland, Albemarle Pros: convenient location, large lots Cons: potentially hazardous access, wide variance in lot & house sizes and in prices a few years ago that landed one Bentivar resident behind bars for shooting his neighbor's pet after it allegedly scratched his ... (more)

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

18 hrs ago | Townhall

Marvin Olasky: Real Commencement

We call graduations "commencements" because students, once schooling is done, enter "real life." In that sense "dying" is the most radical commencement, as we move from what C.S. Lewis called the shadowlands into a far sunnier existence.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, Opinion

20 hrs ago | Virginia Business

New measurement offers fresh look at poverty in the commonwealth

A new measurement of poverty in Virginia is challenging conventional views of economic distress in areas such as Northern Virginia and Southwest Virginia The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service unveiled the Virginia Poverty Measure on Wednesday as part of an effort to more accurately reflect the economic conditions of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Tax

Wed May 22, 2013

The American Spectator

Can He Unite Virginia's GOP?

E.W. Jackson played every card in the deck to win Virginia's Republican lieutenant governor nomination Saturday night in Richmond - a rousing speech, a dedicated base, and charismatic appeal to undecided conservative delegates.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Virginia, Virginia Government, Tea Party

NBC29

Gubernatorial Candidates Take Different Tacks in TV Ads

Don't believe everything you hear leading up to this year's state elections - that's the message from some political analysts, as new advertisements in the race for governor hit airwaves this week.

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NBC29

UVA Researchers Identify Enzyme Linked to Cancer Cell Survival

There is new headway in the fight to cure brain cancer and it comes from the University of Virginia.

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Related Topix: Charlottesville, VA

The Hook

Copper top: Rotunda gleams for graduation

Final exercises at University of Virginia took place on the Lawn last weekend, May 18 and 19, and while much was made of tradition, something was different: the dome of the Rotunda was copper colored - instead of the traditional white - for the ceremonies.

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Related Topix: Weather

The Daily Beast

YOUTHTwenty-nothings

IF YOU'RE in your 20s and you think you've got, like, a decade before you have to get serious about your future, you'd better think again.

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Business Journal

University of Virginia has fallen behind its competitors, consultants say

Baltimore-based higher education consulting firm Art & Science Group told the University of Virginia's governing board Tuesday that despite the university's stature as a "public Ivy," school and state leaders have been complacent in the past 15 years and the school is now falling behind many of its competitors, The Washington Post reported.

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NBC29

Charlottesville Men Share Stories of Race Relations in the City's Past

Even in Charlottesville, considered one of the most liberal cities in Virginia, blacks and whites had to fight to be seen not only equal as late as the 1970s and beyond.

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Related Topix: Charlottesville, VA

NBC29

Cville Chamber Launches "Charlottesville Works" Project

It released its 'Charlottesville Works' project Monday. It stems from the 2011 "Orange Dot Project" report that found 27 percent of people in the city are living in poverty.

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Related Topix: Charlottesville, VA

The Times-Picayune

Ursuline Academy announces East Jefferson graduates

Rachel Stuckey, a resident of Metairie, is the daughter of James and Terri Stuckey.

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Related Topix: Louisiana State University, Tulane University, University of Alabama, Alabama, Villanova University

Tue May 21, 2013

Voice of America

New iPhone App Speeds Care of Heart Attack Victims

Researchers have developed an experimental iPhone application, or app, designed to help emergency medical technicians diagnose a particularly deadly form of heart attack and send that information quickly to waiting hospital surgical teams.

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Related Topix: Heart Attack, Health, Baltimore, MD

NBC29

Lieutenant Governor Candidate Turns Heads with Remarks

Some are calling this year's GOP ticket the most conservative in recent memory. And now, just days after nomination, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is coming under fire for a series of controversial statements.

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Related Topix: Albemarle County, VA, Crozet, VA

NBC29

UVA Board Talks Development, Appoints New Vice Rector

The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors is meeting in Charlottesville Monday and Tuesday to discuss strategies for the school's future.

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Related Topix: George Martin, US Politics, US News, George Allen, US Senate, Republican, Charlottesville, VA