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Independence 'incomplete' without Abyei, says South Sudan forum
Sudan TribuneAttendees at a high-level conference in South Sudan have issued a statement, asserting the new nation's independence from Sudan "remains incomplete" until Abyei is transferred back to the South from which it was moved in 1905 under colonial rule....Tags: Referenda, Government, Politics, Executive Branch, United Nations
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POET ethanol plant in Indiana shut for maintenance -traders
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - Leading ethanol maker POET Biorefining this week shut down its ethanol plant in Alexandria, Indiana, due to a maintenance issue, cash grain traders in the eastern U.S. Midwest said on Thursday. The ethanol plant is closed for...Tags: Archer Daniels Midland Incorporated, Biofuels, Ethanol, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy
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Hartford's Teacher Of The Year Candidates Show What They Can Do
The Hartford CourantJoe Battaglia's classroom is like a teenager's ode to rap and Bob Marley, civil rights heroes and comic books. Posters of Captain America, Iron Man and Malcolm X loom over an electronic whiteboard, where Opportunity High School students on Tuesday wrote...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Malcolm X, Technology, Teachers
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Buy books for moms and grads
The other day I overheard my adult son talking to my husband. 'Next week is Mother's Day?!," he asked...or shrieked. "What can we get her?" Of course I pretended not to hear, since I wanted to catch my husband's unfiltered response, which was...
Tags: Authors, E-Commerce Industry, Mother's Day, Hampton Roads, Literature
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Student wins poetry contest
May Overby Elementary School fourth-grader Ashlyn Dinger won top honors in POET Biorefining's "POET Tree" contest. Students were asked to submit poems about nature for Arbor Day and National Poetry Month in April. Regan Stoick of Mobridge-Pollock...Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools
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UCLA Library's 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself' takes on the Beats
The story of the Beat Generation is often seen as a tale of two cities: The movement began in New York and blossomed in San Francisco. A UCLA Library exhibit sheds light on "a third, lesser-known hub" — Los Angeles, specifically the beachside...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Newspaper and Magazine
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Music Industry, Theater, Entertainment Events, Mary Poppins (musical), Broadway Theater
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Rohrersville Band to open season May 19
The Rohrersville Cornet Band of Washington County will open its 277th season Sunday, May 19. The spring concert in the band hall on Main Street in Rohrersville will begin at 3 p.m. Holly Feather will direct the band as it performs concert favorites...Tags: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Artists, Museums, Spaghetti, Fine Arts
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Lil Wayne, PepsiCo's Mountain Dew part ways after controversy
In a week that has already seen PepsiCo pull an ad developed by Odd Future ringleader Tyler, the Creator, the beverage giant is severing ties with another rapper, Lil Wayne. PepsiCo announced it has ended its partnership with the rapper over a vulgar...
Tags: OFWGKTA (music group), Reebok Ltd., Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Emmett Till
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Science and Technology, Game of Thrones (tv program), Kate Bush, Architecture
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READER SUBMITTED: Avon Native Wins Fulbright Award
AvonAvon native Brendan Walsh, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Southern Connecticut State University, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2013-2014 to Laos, where he will teach English at Ventiane...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Southern Connecticut State University, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Education, Colleges and Universities
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A poem for a planet: Send your haiku to Mars
The MAVEN spacecraft is leaving for Mars in November. Along with scientific gear and advanced communication technologies, it will be bringing along some poetry. It could be yours. NASA launched -- or, rather, opened -- the poetry contest on Wednesday....
Tags: NASA, Google+, NPR, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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