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Now "befriended" is a word with which I am not familiar. I have been befriended by - and befriended - many people since arriving in Beijing. But defriended? It turns out this is a new word created by the Internet-savvy younger generation specifically ...
2009-06-16 09:04:00
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The A-level exam has become "hollow preparation" for university, by undermining independent study and original thought, says a think tank. The Reform group claims exam modules have created a "learn and forget culture" - which it likens to using a sat ...
2009-06-16 07:46:00
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Bandar Seri Begawan - One of the Oil and Gas Discovery Centre's (OGDC) many purposes includes the promotion and recognition of the importance of science and technology towards the public. As a result of this, they were invited to set-up some of their ...
2009-06-16 09:54:00
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EDISON -- A mathematics teacher at Edison High School was arrested Monday and charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan and Edison Police Director Brian Collier. In a ...
2009-06-16 04:04:00
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Spoon-fed teenagers are taking “sat-nav” A levels that they learn and forget, and sitting hollow exams set by bureaucrats, a think-tank report claims today. This has created a generation of high-maintenance university students who seek constant ...
2009-06-16 05:58:00
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Children born without thymus glands have given Duke University Medical Center researchers a rare opportunity to watch as a new immune system develops its population of infection-fighting T-cells. Researchers led by Thomas Kepler, Ph.D., Division ...
2009-06-16 02:09:00
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OGDEN, Utah - Men's basketball player Jordan Hasquet and women's volleyball player Jade Roskam have been named 2009 scholar athletes by the Big Sky Conference. Two athletes are selected annually from each league school based on their athletics and ...
2009-06-16 05:44:00
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Govern-ment recognises the need to improve students’ command of English to ensure they can compete globally. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said students must be proficient in the language and have other skills to ...
2009-06-16 06:20:00
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PUNE: The Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) has revamped the middle school (std IV) and high school (std VII) scholarship examination pattern. While this is the first time that changes have been made in the high school exam pattern ...
2009-06-16 05:58:00
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As I lay in bed in a state of high fever I couldn’t help googling “swine flu” for any other telltale symptoms that might add to my state of hypochondria. With the increase of cases in Australia, the World Health Organisation declared last week ...
2009-06-16 05:51:00
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A study from MIT's Department of Mathematics provides new means of understanding how traffic jams form. The mathematicians discovered that "jamitons" (their name for the equations that describe traffic jams) are strikingly similar to the equations ...
2009-06-16 04:47:00
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CLEVELAND, June 16 (UPI) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected 100 full-time U.S. undergraduate students to receive one-year college scholarships. NASA's Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology project awards ...
2009-06-16 10:27:00
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WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected 100 full-time undergraduate students to receive a one-year college scholarship. NASA's Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology, or MUST, project awards scholarships and ...
2009-06-16 01:55:00
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One of the many factors that has made Silicon Valley in California the pre-eminent location for technology companies is the close relationship between businesses, sources of venture capital and nearby universities. This linkage is exemplified in the ...
2009-06-16 12:29:00
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MUMBAI: HomeShop18 is launching a new show on “Guides for Competitive Examinations”. The show will be telecast every Monday and Tuesday at 9.00 am. The first episode will feature two products - Practice Pack for MBA Entrance Exam and Success Pack ...
2009-06-16 12:50:00
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