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• New York Artillery Soldiers Train on New Weapon in the Florida Sun - dvids

  CAMP BLANDING, Fla. - The New York Army National Guardsmen of 1st Battalion 258th Field Artillery, based in Queens, N.Y., and Newburgh, N.Y. are spending two weeks here honing their skills on a new weapons system: the M119A2 howitzer. The unit had ...
  2010-03-10 04:57:00

• Iditarod fans find ways to feed addiction to famed sled dog race - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she'll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of ...
  2010-03-10 05:25:00

• Local San Gabriel and Whittier educators in favor of common standards ... - Whittier Daily News

  San Gabriel Valley and Whittier educators say they're cautiously optimistic about proposed new guidelines released Wednesday that would create a common set of education standards for all 50 states. The Common Core State Standards project, led by the ...
  2010-03-10 07:13:00

• Are you smarter than a 5th-grader? New math, English standards could ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  SEATTLE - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local ...
  2010-03-10 06:44:00

• The X-Change Corporation Announces Appointment of Board of Directors ... - Investors Business Daily

  LOS ANGELES, March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The X-Change Corporation (OTC: XCHC.PK), a multimedia and e-commerce venture serving the diverse and growing Hispanic markets, announced today the appointment of its Board of Directors and ...
  2010-03-10 08:17:00

• Even in Old Age, Men Want Sex More Than Women - Time

  Spring is coming, and a young man's thoughts turn to...you know. Apparently, old men's thoughts turn to the same subject. According to an article to be published Wednesday in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal), 67% of men ages 65 to 74 said ...
  2010-03-10 03:42:00

• Forum Reaps Ideas on Incoming Schools Chief - The Ledger

  Diana McCauley, Ed.D., Senior Associate HYA, listens to Chrystal Martin,V.P. Virgil Hawkins Bar Association, during a public forum conducted by Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates on the superintendent search held on the Polk State College campus in ...
  2010-03-10 03:28:00

• Cuyahoga Community College needs to keep working toward a cut-rate bus ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer

  Cuyahoga Community College students shouldn't have let a good bus fare pass them by. Given the chance to vote on a new bus discount, just 6 percent of Tri-C's 30,000 students participated, and the majority rejected the idea. For $55 per semester ...
  2010-03-10 03:35:00

• Bible Baptist girls win PIAA play-in game - Cumberland County Sentinel

  Bible Baptist's Jenny Schiappa, left, and Math, Civics & Sciences' Shaneese Thompson. Bible Baptist's Casey Rees. Bible Baptist's Brittany Jacobs. Bible Baptist's Jasmine Rockey. Bible Baptist's Casey Rees, left, and Math, Civics & Sciences' Tatiana ...
  2010-03-10 04:25:00

• CNY high school graduation rates: Many go up, some go down, a few stay ... - Syracuse Post-Standard

  Michelle Gabel / The Post-Standard Cazenovia graduates throw their caps in the air after ceremonies in June. Ninety-four percent of the class graduated. High school graduation rates across the state are improving too slowly and major reform is in ...
  2010-03-10 03:56:00

• Editorial: Pointing fingers won't bring change - MLive.com

  For the first time, the state put together a list of its lowest performing schools ... Spring 2009 scores indicate 3.4 percent were proficient in writing, while 2.2 percent were deemed proficient in math. The state averages are 52 percent for ...
  2010-03-10 04:03:00

• U.S. lays out set of common school standards - MSNBC

  The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across ...
  2010-03-10 04:18:00

• Increase higher education funding, says TIGA - Gamasutra

  TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, said today that the UK should aim to increase the proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) invested in higher education in two ways: by maintaining in real terms public expenditure on ...
  2010-03-10 04:54:00

• Letter to to the editor: Fishermen have rebuilt N.E. stocks - Gloucester Daily Times

  One only needs to review the dramatic results we have achieved over the last 20 years to observe that over the long haul, stocks can and will recover. They have. It was fishermen who suggested and supported mesh size increases and their respective ...
  2010-03-10 05:01:00

• Kenner 4th District incumbent, challenger disagree on economic ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune

  The two candidates for the 4th District seat on the Kenner City Council have a strikingly different view of the landscape in the district. Incumbent Maria DeFrancesch looks out and sees improved business relationships and projects accomplished during ...
  2010-03-10 05:01:00

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