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Mary Rittenhouse sat in her apartment Wednesday afternoon surrounded by flowers, balloons and a pile of photocopied textbooks. The 76-year-old Park Rapids resident just received her GED certificate last Friday, after one and a half years of hard work ...
2009-08-15 12:51:00
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Giant animals like elephants can be regarded as an asset to the country. But in Sri Lanka elephants are under the threat of extinction. Most wild elephants live in huge jungles like Yala and Wilpattu and many other sanctuaries. They need a lot of ...
2009-08-15 04:04:00
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PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Three Jackson County schools have failed to meet the federal education standards under the No Child Left Behind act. Preliminary reports show that Gautier Middle School, Kreole Elementary and Magnolia Junior High did poorly on ...
2009-08-15 04:54:00
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The University of Louisiana at Monroe held its 2009 Summer Commencement on Saturday as President James E. Cofer Sr. conferred degrees to 173 graduates. Paul Orr, a criminal justice major, was the summer’s top graduate, while seven students ...
2009-08-15 05:52:00
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Marcus du Sautoy concludes his investigation into the history of mathematics with a look at some of the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century. After exploring Georg Cantor's work on infinity and Henri Poincare's ...
2009-08-15 02:45:00
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Queen’s College student Wallisa Roberts, who obtained Grade One passes in five subjects, heads the list of outstanding performers at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), according to preliminary results released by the ...
2009-08-15 04:44:00
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For weeks, my former neighbour was counting the days. Then suddenly, “It’s this weekend, you know”, he said with a catch in his voice. “Yes,” I replied. “Wish I could come with you.” That was some four years ago. He was in that state of ...
2009-08-15 11:25:00
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Oddly enough, Lisbeth Salander was not at the center of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Stieg Larsson's long, complex, thoroughly absorbing thriller published in the United States last year. Despite sporting the beastly tattoo, Salander played ...
2009-08-15 11:25:00
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Iranian students have collected gold and silver medals at the 21st International Olympiad in Informatics held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Ali Babaei-Cheshmeh won the gold medal and Soheil Ehsani, Pouyan Vahidi and Fereshteh Khani received the annual event ...
2009-08-15 09:45:00
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MANILA, Philippines - Young Filipino math whiz kids harvested a bumper crop of silver and bronze medals at the 2009 Junior High School Math Olympiad and China Primary Math Olympiad in Tianjin, China. The whiz kids, led by the Mathematics Trainers ...
2009-08-15 11:03:00
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The Rev. J. Richard VandeVelde brought the Jesuit religious order's national magazine into the computer age. "He was instrumental in getting Company magazine on the Web back in the early days in the mid-1990s,'' said Martin McHugh, editor of the ...
2009-08-15 07:00:00
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CONNELLSVILLE - The Connellsville Area School Board took action to hire teachers, aides and an administrator Thursday in preparation of the Aug. 31 opening of the 2009/2010 school year. However, board members did not approve a 10-cent hike in the ...
2009-08-14 11:01:00
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Randy Dorn, first-year Washington state school chief, who unveiled tepid results of the last-ever Washington Assessment of Student Learning exams taken by students last spring, fired two pithy messages from Olympia on Friday. The first, to school ...
2009-08-15 03:04:00
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2009-08-15 01:52:00
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The University of Iowa will say goodbye Sunday to 13 Taiwanese educators who have been visiting the area to learn new strategies for teaching math and science. Robert Yager, a UI science education professor emeritus, and his former doctoral student ...
2009-08-15 03:11:00
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