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Tom Bartman dies at 67; helped end forced busing in L.A. schools
Tom Bartman, whose election to the Los Angeles Board of Education in 1980 gave board conservatives a majority for the first time in years and helped spell the end of mandatory school busing in the sprawling district, died Monday at his home in Beverly...
Tags: Politics, Elections, U.S. Congress
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Aging U.S. to drive up heart-related health costs: study
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The costs linked to heart failure in the United States are expected to more than double within the next two decades as the population ages and treatments help patients with the disease live longer, a study released on Wednesday...Tags: Diabetes, Health Insurance, Minority Groups, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses
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Robotic jellyfish named Cyro could one day work for the Navy [video]
Meet Cyro, the latest robotic jellyfish to emerge from the engineering labs at Virginia Tech. Cyro measures 5 feet, 7 inches across and weighs in at 170 pounds. Its design was based on the real-life species Cyanea capillata, one of the largest jellyfish...
Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Colleges and Universities, Providence College, Energy Saving
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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Cardiologists, Stroke, American Heart Association, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Limitless future awaits brilliant senior at Central High School
Matthew Guthmiller is a Golden Eagle that's flying high. The Aberdeen Central High School senior is working toward getting his commercial pilot license, pitching a business endeavor to investors and finishing up his final quarter of high school. He'...
Tags: Science and Technology, Siemens, Education, Students, Colleges and Universities
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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: Religion and Belief, Science and Technology, Racism, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: U.S. Senate, Finance, Chicago Teachers Union, John Kerry, Politics
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Hopkins medical school falls to No. 3 in U.S. News rankings
Johns Hopkins University's medical school fell one spot to No. 3 in the nation, while its education school rose to No. 2, according to the latest U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings. The medical school ranked behind those of Harvard...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Science and Technology, Education, Colleges and Universities, Nursing
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Meet Google's Sundar Pichai: The exec who now runs Android
SAN FRANCISCO -- The joke quickly made the rounds of Twitter: Top Google Inc. executive Sundar Pichai had been elected pope –- of Android. There were no puffs of white smoke as there were for Pope Francis, just a blog post Wednesday from Google...
Tags: Science and Technology, Chromebook, Google Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Twitter, Inc.
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Apodaca: Telecommuting not so black and white
File this one under "Are you kidding me?" Internet firm Yahoo recently banned its workers from telecommuting, and suddenly we have a nationwide debate blazing over an issue that had previously appeared settled solidly in the corner of increasing...Tags: Science and Technology, Real Estate Buyers, Marissa Mayer, Newspaper and Magazine, Media Industry
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Study identifies genes linked to Alzheimer's in African Americans
One complaint leveled against genome studies is that they don't survey a broad enough swath of humankind. Though many projects have searched DNA collected from people of European descent -- hoping to ferret out which changes in what parts of the genome...
Tags: Science and Technology, Social Issues, Science, Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease
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Future space explorers tour JPL
Thirty-two students in aerospace, engineering and science programs in 11 different countries descended on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week as part of a Caltech competition to design a mission to one of Mars' two moons, Phobos or Deimos. "Watching...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, Students, Aerospace Manufacturing, Science
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