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Terror Threats Force Evacuations at 2 Universities
CNNAUSTIN, Tx. -- No explosives were found at two U.S. universities that had ordered evacuations after they received bomb threats Friday morning, officials said. The evacuations happened at the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State...Tags: Bombings, Colleges and Universities, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, FBI
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Record low number of babies born in Japan
World NowFewer babies were born in Japan last year than in any other year on record, pulling down its population for the third year in a row, according to government statistics released this week. The loss of more than 260,000 people is the biggest drop that the... -
Announcing the 2013 Nelson Algren Awards
As we launch the 2013 Nelson Algren Short Story Awards Contest, we consider our relationship — as Chicago Tribune journalists — to the world of fiction. Though we are dedicated to the world of fact, we recognize that fiction can help us make...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Northwestern University, Justice System
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Towson will receive $2 million to launch program designed to produce math, science teachers
Towson University will receive $2 million in state and private grant funds to start a new program designed to increase production of math and science teachers.
The initiative will be based on the 15-year-old UTeach program, which more than doubled the...Tags: Science, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Teachers, Martin O'Malley
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UC files court brief supporting race-based admissions policy
L.A. NOWThe University of California on Monday submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the use of race as a factor in college admissions. UC President Mark G. Yudof and the system’s 10 chancellors filed the “friend of the court”... -
Taking time out for exercise pays in spades
I don't know any Joneses, and if I did I wouldn't waste my time trying to keep up with them. Not on pointless things like the price of my car, color of my lawn or size of my TV, at least. I do like to compete on the size of my belly though, in that...
Tags: Overweight, Indiana University, YouTube, Cancer, Weight
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StormCenter takes crisis managers to the eye of the action
Dave Jones is trying to shrink the world, one crisis at a time. The former TV weatherman wants emergency managers and decision-makers to have simultaneous access to real-time information so they can keep people out of harm's way. And he wants them to...Tags: Financial Aid, NBC (tv network), Business, United Nations, Disasters and Accidents
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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Belief and Faith, Cosmology, John Updike, Literature
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St. Francis grad Nick Gentili garners more honors with Pomona-Pitzer
The following are updates on local athletes at the collegiate level. Nick Gentili (St. Francis High, 2009) junior, Pomona-Pitzer baseball: Gentili put himself in the conversation as one of the best offensive players in the Southern California...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Humberto Quintero, Big Ten Conference, Students, Northwestern University
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Timeline: Worst U.S. mass shootings
A heavily armed gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, July 20, killing at least 12 and wounding 38. Police arrested a suspect in theater's parking lot. Here are some of the worst U.S. mass shootings since World War II....
Tags: Columbine High School, Blacksburg, Eric Harris, Health and Safety at School, Injuries and Wounds
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Services Held for Victims of Colorado Theater Shooting
CNNAURORA, Co. -- They laughed, they cried, they celebrated a young life lost too soon. Those attending Jessica Ghawi's memorial service Saturday at a San Antonio church heard numerous adjectives describing the hockey fan and aspiring sports broadcaster....Tags: Murder, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gun Control, McDonald's
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