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Pet news briefs: Dog attack stats ranked by city
My Pet WorldThe U.S. Postal Service has released dog attack rankings for 2012 by city. Last year, nearly 5,900 letter carriers were attacked by dogs. Overall, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were thought to be about 4.7 million...Tags: Vaccines, Flu, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Postal Service
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Class Conflict, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Graduation, Martin Luther King Jr.
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South High Boosters to meet Monday
A meeting of the South Hagerstown High School boosters will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the media center at South Hagers-town High School. There will be many topics to discuss. Everyone is invited. Diabetes support group to meet April 17 The diabetes...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Fine Artists, Teaching and Learning, Public Schools, Politics
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Joyful voices in heavenly choir
South Bend TribuneCindy Robinett, the choir director at the Sanctuary at St. Paul’s in South Bend, had to pass out Kleenex instead of sheet music at a recent rehearsal. She and her St. Paul’s choir found out in a span of a few minutes that they had lost two...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Music, Entertainment
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Seeing The Forest, And The Vanishing Foresters
The Hartford CourantRachel Holmes was an urban forester for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for exactly two years until Thursday, and she didn't go out quietly. The 31-year-old, with two graduate degrees from Yale, spent extra hours working on...Tags: South Windsor, Science and Technology, Lebanon, Forestry and Timber, Natural Resource Industry
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Redirecting money after a loan is paid off
Dear Liz: I'll be done paying off my car in a couple of months. What's a good strategy for redirecting that money once it's paid off? Should I use the whole amount each month to start saving for my next car, or would I be better off splitting it up and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Insurance, Contracts
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A crucial step toward retirement security for the working class
It's amazing, and depressing, when political compromise functions only to throw obstacles in the way of ideas that bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Today's example: the long, tortuous road to bringing more retirement security to...
Tags: Science and Technology, Internal Revenue Service, Pension and Welfare, Retirement, Employment
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What Abraham Lincoln learned from Richard III
Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint. Having determined that the remains found in Leicester, U.K., a few months back are indeed those of...
Tags: William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, George W. Bush, White House
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Yale's Architecture Echoes Past In Present
The Hartford CourantLike many Connecticut residents who didn't matriculate at Yale, I know the university in bits and pieces — a lecture at the law school, a play at the Rep, a dinner at the Commons. I don't have a good sense of how the whole place fits together, yet...Tags: Yale University Art Gallery, Fenway Park, Colleges and Universities, Emily Dickinson, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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MarksJarvis: 'Just trust me' allure of hedge funds gives way to 'buyer beware'
The magic is gone … the infatuation over. Wealthy investors who thought a few years ago that brainy hedge fund managers would show them the money have shed their rose-colored glasses. Individuals are no longer enamored with the funds, and for...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Bernard Madoff, Stock Market, Credit Ratings, Finance
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Angry at the NRA? That Won't Reduce Gun Violence
Support for stricter U.S. gun laws hasn't jumped as fast or as far in recent weeks as many liberals had hoped and expected. If you're wondering why, maybe the reason is the shakiness of the public's trust in government itself. After the horrific murders...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Assault, Fiscal Cliff, Parties and Movements, John Boehner
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'There's lots that can be done'
In 2008, Paul Tough’s first book, “Whatever It Takes,” told the story of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a massive effort to leverage a pre-birth-through-high-school system of education services to change the trajectory of 10,000...
Tags: Poverty, Colleges and Universities, Teachers, Environmental Issues, Teaching and Learning
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