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Balto. Co. school librarians skeptical of changes
Baltimore County school librarians are worried about their next chapter. New schools Superintendent Dallas Dance wants to eliminate from school system policy a written requirement that each school have a librarian and has shifted library science...
Tags: Research, Arts and Culture, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Libraries
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Costa Mesa gets 'A' for transparency
For the second consecutive year, Costa Mesa received an award from a national nonprofit that grades government transparency. The city received one of 250 Sunny Awards from the Sunshine Review, which analyzed 7,000 agencies nationwide, according to a city...Tags: National Government, Politics, Government
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Ryan McIlvain's novel 'Elders' goes inside the Mormon faith
During the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's openness about his Mormon faith brought to the surface many of the generalizations Americans maintain about what it means to be a Mormon. Ryan McIlvain's debut novel "Elders"...
Tags: Brazil, Mitt Romney, Arts and Culture, Mark Twain, John Updike
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DeAndre Jordan with the dunk of the year?
On Sunday evening, DeAndre Jordan's name was trending on Twitter, the Clippers' center was leading the NBA with the most mentions per hour on NBA.com, and NBA superstars were tweeting about him. It happened after Jordan sprinted down the middle of...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Dwight Howard, Detroit Pistons, LeBron James, Los Angeles Clippers
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Brandon Knight mocks himself on Twitter after DeAndre Jordan dunk
Brandon Knight is alive and well -- no thanks to the Clippers' DeAndre Jordan and despite what you might have read on the Internet over the last 12 hours or so. The Detroit guard still might be feeling the effects of the monster dunk Jordan threw down...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Detroit Pistons, Social Media, Los Angeles Clippers, Chris Paul
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Walters explores work of Caton heir who lived fast, died young
The handsome young man sitting in the pink parlor chair radiates restlessness, a disdain for social conventions and undeniable self-satisfaction. The impatience in Richard Caton Woodville's "Self-Portrait with Flowered Wallpaper" can be detected in...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Artists, Painting, Arts, Germany
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Take a pill
The Baltimore SunOnly yesterday I posted about the hissy that Buzzfeed pitched over literally in the figurative sense. Today at Slate Simon Akam is railing against bridezilla and chillax and a handful of other contemporary constructions that he finds inelegant.* Lord...Tags: George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare
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Kelly's staff might almost be set
Eagles InsidersNobody can say for sure. Except Wikipedia, which has definitively listed Pat Shurmur as the offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles, along with fellow assistants Bill Lazor (quarterbacks), Duce Staley (running backs), Bob Bicknell (wide... -
Three things to know
1. What a frosty, foggy morning in Aberdeen. If I was wearing a mood ring, it would be on eerie. 2. Did you see that incredible snow moon last night? Wikipedia says a snow moon is a traditional name for the full moon that occurs in February when there is... -
Baltimore guitarist brings lessons into school classrooms
Chris Dunn called the class to order with a simple instruction: "One, two, ready, strum." A torrent of E minor chords — or close enough — from nearly a dozen guitars filled the room at the Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School...
Tags: Music Industry, Education, Music, Schools, Public Schools
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IPads take over TOW classrooms
What might have taken 10 minutes to do with a hard copy textbook only took two minutes during Sarah Wolsey's Monday class at Top of the World Elementary School. Wolsey began the morning talking about empires in her fifth-grade classroom while the 32...
Tags: Education, Computer Hardware, Students, Teaching and Learning, Google Inc.
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Flying with Swan
When you travel as much as I do, you’re bound to run into the occasional luminary. In Cincinnati I’ve waited for the same plane as Gallagher, the comedian who smashes watermelons. Of course I covered myself in plastic and hid my bag of...
Tags: National Football League, Arena Football League, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Franco Harris, Pittsburgh Power
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