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BOWLing for gifts
The Business of Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsWith the college bowl season kicking off next week, SportsBusiness Journal has done its annual roundup of bowl gifts to athletes. The list is chock full of electronics from iPods to Xboxes and even more bowls than ever are offering......Tags: University of Miami, Education, Sugar Bowl, Science and Technology, Rose Bowl Game
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Chelsea Clinton engaged, village happy
The Swampby Mark Silva Chelsea Clinton is engaged. The only child of the former president and current secretary of state is engaged to be married to the son of a former congressman from Iowa and congresswoman from Pennsylvania: Investment banker Marc......Tags: Education, Celebrity Parents, Pennsylvania, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
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Honda Announces Plug-in Hybrid and EV for 2012
KickingTiresHonda will produce a plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle for the U.S. by 2012, according to the automaker. There are no specifications on the Honda EV, but it will likely compete with the upcoming Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i MiEV.......Tags: Vehicles, Education, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nissan, Automotive Equipment
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Michelle Obama's guests: State of Union
The Swampby Michael Muskal Part of the ceremony surrounding any presidential speech to Congress is who gets to be singled out and who gets invited to sit with the first family. First Lady Michelle Obama is bringing quite a crowd. This......Tags: Education, Indianapolis, Pennsylvania, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), San Diego (San Diego, California)
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Joel Brinkley: Can Taiwan pull China toward democracy?
American VoicesPresident Ma Ying-jeou sat at the head of large conference table in his presidential office, and inscribed on the wall behind him was the name of his nation: Republic of China. Beside that, in parentheses and smaller letters, was acknowledgment that he...Tags: Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Political Systems, Xi Jinping, The New York Times
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iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...
Tags: Teachers, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Apple iPad
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Even a stripped-down 'Heights' still resonates
The 2008 Broadway musical "In the Heights," the story of a mostly Latino community struggling to both move up and stay together, is now in its waning days as a touring attraction. Since the show last was in Chicago — in late 2009 — the...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater
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Joel Brinkley: China a long way from gaining world's trust
American VoicesOn his first foreign foray as China's new president, Xi Jinping visited Russia and then Tanzania, two countries with which China has frosty relations at best. "China and Russia, as the biggest neighbors of each other, share many commonalities," Xi...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Xi Jinping, Cambodia
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Calling time out on work interruptions, distractions
For most, the modern workday is one long series of interruptions punctuated by brief bursts of productivity. For example, it took me 17 minutes to write that first sentence. I got an email after the word "modern," had to send a tweet after...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Media Industry, Physiology
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From affirmative action to diversity
Victor Davis HansonSometime in the new millennium, "global warming" evolved into "climate change." Amid growing controversies over the planet's past temperatures, Al Gore and other activists understood that human-induced "climate change" could better explain almost any...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Victor Davis Hanson, Global Change, Science and Technology
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Penny Pritzker resigns from the Chicago school board
Billionaire Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker resigned from the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday. A spokeswoman for Pritzker declined to provide a reason for the resignation. Pritzker is being vetted as a potential candidate for U.S. Commerce...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics, Chicago Mayor, Jean-Claude Brizard
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The California 'Mordida'
Victor Davis HansonCalifornia now works on the principle of the mordida, or "bite." Its government assumes that it can take something extra from residents for the privilege of living in their special state. Gov. Jerry Brown made that assumption explicit in his latest back-...Tags: Politics, Energy Resources, Victor Davis Hanson, Rick Perry, Personal Income
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