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BEVERLY — The City Council voted 5-3 in a special meeting last night to increase taxes on meals and hotel rooms, a move that supporters said will save city jobs but that one councilor called "shenanigans of the worst kind." The tax increases will ...
2010-02-27 05:57:00
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Spaceflight pioneer Aaron Cohen, a former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, died Thursday, Feb. 25, after a lengthy illness. He was 79. Cohen had a 33-year career with NASA. He was a steady hand at the helm of Johnson as NASA ...
2010-02-27 07:30:00
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Last fall, they learned that their eldest child, Halley, who is a teacher in Athens, received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics ... For 72 years, he used some of those skills to race homing pigeons, a hobby which brought him awards.
2010-02-27 07:23:00
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Five years ago, Brenda Dietrich started to investigate how IBM's 40,000 salespeople could learn to rely a little more on math than on their gut instincts. In particular, Dietrich, who heads the company's 200-person worldwide team of math researchers ...
2010-02-27 09:10:00
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At 6 p.m., a bus lurches to a stop at the St. Paul Cathedral. Seven families spill out, leftovers who didn't fit into the homeless shelters that night. Slipping on the snow, lumbering into the church, they are a walking checklist of America's social ...
2010-02-27 09:10:00
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I enjoyed reading the Las Vegas Sun’s Wednesday editorial, “Education and economics,” and agree that quality of education is crucial to enabling a lasting economic recovery, both in this state and in the nation at large. For our nation to ...
2010-02-27 12:42:00
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As students and staff reconnected at Deer Creek Middle School on Friday, the two men perhaps most responsible for all the smiling faces finally got a chance to talk. David Benke, who grabbed a gunman at the school Tuesday just after he fired and ...
2010-02-27 01:53:00
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A recent editorial stated that area college presidents should think about what their institutions can do to improve the Rochester city schools regardless of how the governance issue is resolved. The editorial mentions that there are scholarships and ...
2010-02-27 04:02:00
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MARYSVILLE — Low test scores and new federal regulations are forcing big changes on at least two campuses in the Marysville School District. Tulalip Elementary School and Totem Middle School appear on a state list of low-performing schools that ...
2010-02-27 02:01:00
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A class-action lawsuit filed Friday claims pension legislation signed into law this week is unconstitutional because it reduces benefits promised to retired government employees. The legal challenge, just three days after Gov. Bill Ritter signed ...
2010-02-27 01:53:00
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James Fuller, a 39-year veteran math teacher who works at Overton High School, said the extra staff is especially good for young teachers who need outside help finding programs to address their weaknesses. But he believes the district needs to do ...
2010-02-27 02:15:00
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ROXBURY — Heavily favored Andover seemed to be putting the finishing touches on an historic repeat All-State meet championship when disaster struck. Mansfield anchor Kyle Kilduff made up 10 yards — earlier in the race Andover had led by as much ...
2010-02-27 01:32:00
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Bode Miller, Chad Hedrick and the men's four-man bobsled team will all be in action Saturday. Here's what we'll be watching: Alpine skiing: Men's slalom: Three events into these Games, Bode Miller was two medals away ...
2010-02-27 03:55:00
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