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THE global signs of a recovery in economic confidence seem puzzling. It is a large and diverse world, after all, so why should confidence have rebounded so quickly in so many places? Government stimulus and bailout packages have generally not been ...
2009-08-30 05:19:00
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Berlin: Germans voted in three regional elections yesterday that could provide a boost to Chancellor Angela Merkel's struggling leftist rivals a month before she seeks a second term in a federal vote. Merkel and her conservative Christian Democrats ...
2009-08-30 04:36:00
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Students are constantly being graded to assess their performance. Just about every measureable quality, no matter how minute, is weighted and factored into a letter grade intended to objectively represent a student’s total input in a class. And no ...
2009-08-30 05:19:00
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TWO years ago, siblings Bryan and Michelle Yip made the headlines in Singapore when they sat for the O-level exams years before their peers and scored 15 distinctions between them. Bryan was only 14 then while Michelle was 12. This time, the wonder ...
2009-08-30 04:44:00
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Seven Tulsans who have made outstanding contributions to the community will be honored at the 23rd annual Tulsa Hall of Fame ceremony on Oct. 15. This year's inductees will be George Fulton Collins III, Phyllis and George Dotson, Linda Sellen Frazier ...
2009-08-30 12:04:00
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CHICAGO (STNG) -- Climate change -- a hot topic based on cold facts -- continues to rank high on the agenda of international issues. But creating models to predict future climate change requires inputs that can number in the hundreds of thousands ...
2009-08-30 08:58:00
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The Ford Motor Co. Fund's first school in Dearborn, Mich., achieved those results, and now officials hope the same can be done at a new public charter high school opened by the fund in Homan Square on Saturday. The school's curriculum will focus on ...
2009-08-30 08:08:00
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Of the four subjects on the ACT college entrance exam, one Oklahoma score stands out — math. Nationwide, only 23 percent of students who took the test were ready for college-level courses in all four ACT subjects — English, reading, math and ...
2009-08-30 07:25:00
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New Zealand's "punt" on intermediate schooling is costing thousands of children a better education, new research suggests. Kay Matheson, from Victoria University in Wellington, studied the differences in teaching between Year 8 (form two) and Year 9 ...
2009-08-30 12:04:00
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Four-year-old twins Uma and Jayanthi Simhan work on a light table with different shapes at Shady Lane School in Point Breeze. Many American adults can't explain how to compute miles per gallon, interest paid on a loan or a 15 percent tip. Some ...
2009-08-30 10:46:00
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I've followed Randal Baileys career ever since he started in 96 or so. I haven't actually seen him fight very often because he's seldom featured. He was always a cool dude and all that but after watching him fight tonight I was amazed how he ever ...
2009-08-30 11:50:00
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Sure did. Boy, I think maybe we should have spoken with her before we got involved in this whole “dispensary thing.” Yeah, I had no idea there were only 34 registered medical marijuana patients in Routt County. That’s not much of a client base ...
2009-08-30 12:59:00
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Voters in three German states headed to the polls today for regional elections that are seen as a key test of sentiment before a federal vote next month in which Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes to win a second term. Ms Merkel and her conservative ...
2009-08-30 02:17:00
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THE global signs of a recovery in economic confidence seem puzzling. It is a large and diverse world, after all, so why should confidence have rebounded so quickly in so many places? Government stimulus and bailout packages have generally not been ...
2009-08-30 04:12:00
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Voters in three German states headed to the polls on Sunday for regional elections that are seen as a key test of sentiment before a federal vote next month in which Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes to win a second term. Merkel and ...
2009-08-30 02:25:00
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