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Eric Lander's name is familiar to anyone who has kept an eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in steering the Human Genome Project to completion ...
2009-09-03 11:24:00
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Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government will implement the new national education policy by December. "We do not want that the national education policy remains unimplemented after formulation like in the past," he told ...
2009-09-03 03:34:00
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North Arrow Minerals Inc. (NAR: TSXV) ("North Arrow" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Blair Murdoch has been appointed to the Board of Directors, increasing the number of directors to five. Mr. Murdoch has 30 years experience in senior ...
2009-09-03 02:09:00
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Teacher turnover in North Carolina public schools dropped in fiscal 2009 and remained a solid 4 percentage points lower than the national turnover rate, according to a new state report. Local school systems had an average teacher turnover rate of 12 ...
2009-09-03 01:18:00
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Jonathan Miller, son of Jerry and Susie Miller and a junior at Sebeka High School, was one of only three college-bound students in Minnesota and one of 84 in the United States and abroad to achieve a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the ...
2009-09-03 02:30:00
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That's the title of Paul Krugman's long essay on the recession's impact on academic economics in the New York Times Magazine. This is self-recommending. The thrust of the argument is that over the years economics (in particular the neoclassical ...
2009-09-03 12:57:00
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How can the mathematics community ensure that fewer children are turned off math and more are attracted to it? The people at the NAVET Science Center in the city of Boras, in Sweden, have one answer that I think has the potential to make a huge ...
2009-09-03 12:07:00
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BRANCHVILLE, N.J., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIGI) announced the following appointments by its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America ("Selective"): Dennis L. Barger (Duluth, GA) to senior ...
2009-09-03 10:05:00
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Texas Tech recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will aid the advancement of student outreach programs. The $978,000 grant is to be used by the STEM Educational Outreach program at Tech, said Lawrence Schovanec, interim ...
2009-09-03 06:45:00
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Antoine Jean François Claudet, Portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot, early 1840s. William Henry Fox Talbot was a brilliant scholar in many fields - including mathematics, etymology, botany and physics - but he is today most remembered as the ...
2009-09-03 08:39:00
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Taylor Allen came prepared for her math lesson Wednesday with a pencil, paper and a sun visor. The Sue Reynolds Elementary School fourth-grader watched an Augusta GreenJackets game against the Savannah Sand Gnats on Wednesday while learning about ...
2009-09-03 06:09:00
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SEATTLE, Wash -- "I've gotta use words when I talk to you." Thus spake Apeneck Sweeney in T.S. Eliot's "Fragment of an Agon." We all have to use words, we humans, and we are the only creatures who do. Language is our last distinction from all the ...
2009-09-03 08:46:00
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Hitting hard at the countries who have been blocking the expansion of UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, India on Thursday dared such nations to schedule a straw poll in the UN General Assembly to prove that they ...
2009-09-03 05:05:00
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Watch out, partiers, sex freaks and feminists -- judgment is coming. At least that's what a group of preachers gathered outside the HUB said Wednesday, holding an impromptu rally to spread their religious and moral beliefs to the campus community ...
2009-09-03 04:14:00
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Computerworld - Can you remember a time when you didn't watch videos of silly cats on YouTube, or didn't buy everything from books to car parts to clothes online? What about mail? You know, the stuff that came in paper envelopes with little postage ...
2009-09-03 05:05:00
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