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As the deadline approaches, five have filed to run for the Plano Independent School District. Potential candidates have until 5 p.m. on Monday to file for a place on the ballot. Two Plano ISD board seats, Places 6 and 7, will be open. Place 6 ...
2009-03-06 04:07:00
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GENEVA: The doctorate certificate that Albert Einstein obtained from the University of Zurich in 1906 will come up for auction in June, auctioneers Fischer Galerie said Friday. An honorary doctorate certificate awarded to the physicist by the ...
2009-03-06 05:05:00
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The Chinese map of the heavens dates to the 7th century AD and shows 1,339 stars including easily recognisable shapes including The Big Dipper and Orion. Now the celestial map that was discovered in a cave 100 years ago is to be shown at the British ...
2009-03-06 07:35:00
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CONSUMERS can expect fish to cost more following a strike by importers and fishmongers over the use of insulated fish containers, according to China Press . Fishmongers in Penang, Ipoh and Johor are taking part in the boycott to protest against the ...
2009-03-06 05:40:00
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Des Moines officials have proposed a $402 million budget next year that includes layoffs at all levels and a freeze on many “non essential” expenses. “Every effort was made to protect and build upon the progress made in the last several years ...
2009-03-06 02:06:00
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This week, the American Psychological Association released a new study on why women are underrepresented in the so-called "STEM" fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, particularly in their most math-intensive reaches. It's a ...
2009-03-06 02:06:00
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As the deadline approaches, five have filed to run for the Plano Independent School District. Potential candidates have until 5 p.m. on Monday to file for a place on the ballot. Two Plano ISD board seats, Places 6 and 7, will be open. Place 6 ...
2009-03-06 04:15:00
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THE retina in Chia Zhe Hui's right eye got detached just six weeks before he was due to sit for the 2007 A-level exams. That meant yet another eye operation and another year at St Andrew's Junior College for the lanky and bespectacled 20- year-old ...
2009-03-06 04:43:00
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CALLAHAN, FL -- It isn't what you would expect students to be cheering for -- a test. But at Callahan Middle School on Friday, that's exactly what they were doing. The football field was filled with cheerleaders, the school band and 800 cheering ...
2009-03-06 03:32:00
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Everyone is trying to figure out the roots of the current financial crisis. You can trace it back to one man, Mr. Li, and a formula that was very misused by Wall Street. Let me start by telling you a story that took place some 30 years ago. I was ...
2009-03-06 03:32:00
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Instructions in the mathematics paper on the final day of Madhyamik confused thousands of students on Friday, many of whom ended up answering more questions than they needed to.
2009-03-06 03:16:31
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The current leader of App Store books is Stanza, an application that's seen about seven million e-book downloads since launching in mid-2008. About half of Stanza's 100,000 available titles are free -- through public domain or Creative Commons ...
2009-03-06 11:50:00
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Hurrah! Years of watching and rewatching The West Wing finally paid of today with the weekly quiz . Q6 a piece of cake. Feel free to ask more US-political type questions. Joanna ( Wednesday's letters ), mathematicians use a system called LaTeX (which ...
2009-03-06 11:00:00
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It's far too late to make any radical changes to the 2009 Major League Baseball schedule. So Twins President Dave St. Peter offered two special requests to pass along to the firm that produces the 2010 sked: No road trips longer than nine games, and ...
2009-03-06 09:55:00
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Mar 06, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Verizon Foundation is helping Rhode Island public schools better prepare students to succeed in the 21st century. Amid the increased focus on student achievement, public schools across ...
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