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Legislation promoted by state higher education officials would clear the way for sharing data between the Department of Education and the Office of Higher Education. It would give state officials a way to track student progress from grade school ...
2008-04-27 02:09:00
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JOHANNESBURG - The SA Navy has resorted to the Internet in its efforts to attract people to serve on its new submarines. The web page details the number of personnel needed – 129 – to man the three 209 Type 1400 Model SA submarines acquired as ...
2008-04-27 12:00:00
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Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Coventry have developed the first new technique for diagnosing malaria able to challenge the rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) currently used in the field. Early results, now published in the Biophysical ...
2008-04-27 04:32:00
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Through the ages, the sound of music in myriad incarnations has captivated human beings and made them sing along, and as scholars have suspected for centuries, the mysterious force that shapes the melodies that catch the ear and lead the voice is ...
2008-04-27 02:31:00
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If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. - “A Nation At Risk” (1983) Let us limp down memory lane to mark this week’s ...
2008-04-27 09:08:00
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PROCTORS at Oxford University have fined graduating students more than £6,000 for their post-exam celebrations - with the help of the social networking site Facebook. Following the fines, the university's student union has accused the proctors of a ...
2008-04-27 10:34:00
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Students in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District will begin the STAR exams Monday with the exception of the Salmon Track school which begins on May 12. According to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, this is a very important time ...
2008-04-27 07:43:00
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OSPREY — Scientist and entrepreneur Bernie Rothlein founded one of the country's leading semiconductor firms in 1959. Rothlein, who died unexpectedly April 11 in Sarasota at 88, was the first president and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., which ...
2008-04-27 08:26:00
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The Gilbert Unified School District is hosting the 2008 Eastern Maricopa County Sixth Grade Mathematics Challenge from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Mesquite High School, 500 S. McQueen Road, Gilbert.
2008-04-27 01:55:36
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rbf writes "A girl I like at my university, a graduate student in mathematics, will be having a birthday next month. She had thought of throwing a nerd-themed party — show up with tape on your glasses, pants hiked up, etc. However, she decided against it because most of her friends are math nerds and wouldn't even have to dress up! So my question for the community is: What fun party ideas would ...
2008-04-26 11:49:15
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More than 30 years as a college mathematics professor did not prepare Dan Sankowsky for becoming a statistic. Approximately 40,000 Americans develop Parkinson's disease each year; a fraction of those will develop camptocormia, an abnormal bending of the body. Sankowsky has both.
2008-04-26 09:29:21
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Three into two doesn't go, not even by the laws of Munster mathematics. Whichever way you look at the second-row configurations of Paul O'Connell, Donncha O'Callaghan and Mick O'Driscoll, you'll have an O'pair to keep the house in order, and one left ...
2008-04-26 06:35:00
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The Gilbert Unified School District is hosting the 2008 Eastern Maricopa County Sixth Grade Mathematics Challenge from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Mesquite High School, 500 S. McQueen Road, Gilbert. Thirty-four teams of sixth-graders, more than 200 ...
2008-04-27 01:30:00
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AT 7:36 P.M. ON May 25, if all goes well, a stranger from Earth will land near the north pole of Mars. It is called Phoenix. To the unscientific eye, it looks like a giant winged bug. It has three legs and a 5-foot-wide central science deck. With its ...
2008-04-27 01:09:00
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A CROCK OF CROAK: Unity Elementary School student Sarah Giles peers into a glass container holding a wood frog that was captured and examined in a lab at Unity College on Tuesday. Students in professor David Potter's biology class hosted the fourth ...
2008-04-27 04:36:00
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