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John Carter, the school's assistant principal for teaching and learning, will be the new principal of Stevenson High School. At its meeting Monday, the District 125 Board of Education named Carter as successor to Janet Gonzalez. Carter taught ...
2008-12-18 03:42:00
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The Motley Fool recently had a chance to talk to Vanguard Founder John Bogle, the man behind the first index mutual fund. He's the author of seven books, including the recently published Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life . In this ...
2008-12-23 11:15:00
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SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 23, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BSD Medical Corporation (Nasdaq:BSDM) today announced that the first patient, a 13-year-old boy, has been treated using a BSD 2000/3D/MR Hyperthermia System at the Heinrich Heine University of ...
2008-12-23 11:29:00
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I n a speech to world leaders this month, Pope Benedict XVI described the financial crisis as the triumph of greed over the common good. “The conscience of humanity” could, he said, no longer ignore the vastness of the gaps between rich and poor ...
2008-12-23 02:57:00
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 23, 2008 -- The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University. In many cases, the ...
2008-12-23 08:37:00
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If everything moves ahead as per what lawyer K B N Lam has planned, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone captured terrorist, will soon get an advocate. Lam has sent a signed vakalatnama to the commissioner of Mumbai Police awaiting Kasab’s consent on it ...
2008-12-23 02:28:00
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Think about when you first learned how to tie your shoes. You learned how to loop the laces in that special way and that was it. No more waiting for mom or dad to do it for you. You probably don’t even think about how to tie shoes anymore. It’s ...
2008-12-23 05:20:00
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Seven University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The new fellows from UW-Madison will be honored on Feb. 14 in Chicago, when 486 members elected as fellows of ...
2008-12-23 02:57:00
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ocean_soul writes "It is well known among scientists that the impact factor of a scientific journal is not always a good indicator of the quality of the papers in the journal. An extreme example of this was recently uncovered in mathematics. The scandal is about one El Naschie, editor in chief of the 'scientific' journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, published by Elsevier. This is one of the ...
2008-12-23 03:47:14
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Third block was a very sticky time for scheduling at Frankfort High School this year. When I got called into the guidance office last spring, I knew there was bad news: the classes I had signed up for didn’t fit. I had an empty third block that ...
2008-12-23 07:33:00
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educational institutions around the state. A $375,000 grant from the endowment's "Initiative to Promote Opportunity through Educational Collaborations" will go towards Rose Hulman Institute of Technology's entrepreneurial and biomedical internship ...
2008-12-23 08:51:00
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The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University. In many cases, the scientists report this week in the ...
2008-12-23 10:03:00
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D-Wave Systems, a Canadian start-up, claims to have concocted a way of proving that its quantum computer is actually a quantum computer. But to pull off the proof, it needs thousands of people to volunteer spare time on their personal computers.
2008-12-23 10:58:37
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The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation's leading advocate for Braille literacy, announced today that Dr. Abraham Nemeth, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Detroit Mercy and inventor of the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Scientific Notation, will serve as a National Ambassador for Braille literacy. As an ambassador, Dr. Nemeth will help advance the ...
2008-12-23 08:55:00
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 (Bernama) -- The Federation of Malay Writers Associations (Gapena) has given the government until Dec 31 to decide whether to continue the teaching and learning of Mathematics and Science in English.
2008-12-23 10:20:45
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