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It can be difficult for young authors to collect blurbs for their books, those pithy testimonials that extol the writing, depth, or significance of a new work. So in the late 1780s, to whom would Nicholas Pike, a Newburyport school teacher, turn to ...
2008-10-19 05:39:00
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HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles asked the chairman of the House Committee on Energy Chairman, Rep. Juan Miguel Mikey Arroyo of Pampanga, to conduct an investigation on oil companies, to determine if the rollbacks initiated by the said firms are reasonable and proportionate to the world market prices of oil.
2008-10-19 11:20:26
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Speaker Prospero Nograles wants the House of Representatives’ committee on energy chaired by Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo to look into the profits of oil companies.
2008-10-19 11:12:10
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Children with mathematical talent often camouflage this strength for fear of being ostracised.
2008-10-19 05:26:06
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Violence has forced thousands of Iraqi Christians to flee their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The displaced are crowded into churches and homes in villages north of the city, and they're crying out for help.
2008-10-19 10:43:26
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ALBANY — It happens to all of us only once between birth and age 31. Turning your age on the same day of the month you were born is a once in a lifetime happening. But for one Lee County family, all three children will experience the unique ...
2008-10-19 02:19:00
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The planned community of Kiln Creek has 18 holes of golf and 19 lakes. The yards are immaculate, the houses are relatively uniform and rules are written to keep it that way. With each residence limited to one campaign yard sign and street names like ...
2008-10-19 02:47:00
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MANHATTAN -- Superintendent Howard Butters and Todd Gierman, director of curriculum, presented the Spring 2008 Report Card/ISAT results to the school board. The percent of students who met or exceeded state standards in mathematics at Anna McDonald ...
2008-10-19 03:59:00
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Harford County is on pace with its preparations for BRAC, the nationwide military base expansion set for a 2011 completion at Aberdeen Proving Ground , officials have said. "The planning has been excellent. It comes down to implementation," Harford ...
2008-10-19 12:17:00
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A county high school teacher recently placed on leave shortly after filing a racial discrimination lawsuit has filed an injunction seeking to return to the classroom. Michelle Maupin, 40, an English teacher at Wilde Lake High who won a racial ...
2008-10-19 12:17:00
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Amid Silicon Valley's obsessive interest in Apple's iPhones and Google's Gphones, along with de rigeur ownership of at least one Research In Motion BlackBerry device, it's easy to forget about the quiet Finnish giant that dominates not just the sale ...
2008-10-19 01:57:00
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Fifteen years ago a parent advisory group at Phoenix Union High School expressed concern about the low graduation rate for Native American students, which translated into few of them going on to college. From that concern, a partnership with Phoenix ...
2008-10-19 01:50:00
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world's largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state. The King Abdullah University of ...
2008-10-19 03:45:00
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Computer system failures in fast food outlets and other stores are rare, but bad things happen when they do. If you want to see real panic, be there when the computer at the supermarket goes down. Counter clerks become incapable of even simple ...
2008-10-19 01:50:00
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Nokia rang up $74 billion in sales and counted operating profit of more than $12 billion. Its customers number about 1 billion, or one in every six people on the planet. But when Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo recently dropped in at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, he did so without any fanfare. Like the global company he guides, Kallasvuo is decidedly low-key.
2008-10-19 02:15:53
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