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Only 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks. There have been only two confirmed air-based terrorist attempts since then. Both were foiled by passengers after the Transportation Security Administration missed them. A study in 2006 revealed that the ...
2010-01-03 10:04:00
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ABU DHABI - All grade 10–12 public school students in the emirate of Abu Dhabi will begin taking the External Measurement of Student Achievement (ESMA) test on Monday as part of an Abu Dhabi Education Council initiative to gauge student performance ...
2010-01-03 09:35:00
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KABUL, Afghanistan — For much of this country’s history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined for generations, and in some instances massacred , by Pashtun rulers. Afghan girls ...
2010-01-03 10:33:00
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Andrew Donald Booth, a computer scientist who invented the ancestor of the modern computer hard drive, was mending fuses, much to his mother's alarm, at the age of two. It's no surprise the precocious scientist is also credited with having left a ...
2010-01-03 08:31:00
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Brookfield — By the time the first bell rings at Brookfield Central High School, most of the students in Room 22 are immersed in college-level vector equations, reviewing for their final exam on the Friday before Christmas. Senior Lea Gulotta ...
2010-01-03 10:33:00
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According to station KBTV–4’s Hometown News in Beaumont, Texas, which followed events breathlessly during February 2005 as the story broke in its own backyard, Kathy Denise White, a nicely presented if slightly lumpish, mannish 39-year-old wife ...
2010-01-03 05:53:00
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You are famous for enacting historical figures such as Mangal Pandey and the one of Bhuvan in Lagaan in your films. How important do you think is it for the youth to know their history? Why is it that they don’t know it? For children to understand ...
2010-01-03 04:35:00
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SINGAPORE: As expected, Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim's recent lament about the state of the Malay-Muslim underclass has attracted a lot of attention from the community. Just the other day, I had a conversation with a friend who ...
2010-01-03 05:18:00
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You may be surprised to learn that it's never too early to sharpen your child's mathematical mind. I don't necessarily advocate reading the digits of pi to your baby in utero, (at least not for mathematical reasons), but there are plenty of ways that ...
2010-01-03 03:45:00
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Higher education opportunities will be offered in Clay County beginning in January. Ivy Tech Community College -- Wabash Valley -- will offer classes in Clay County beginning Jan. 11. The spring 2010 schedule has been expanded to include a variety of ...
2010-01-03 05:46:00
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Carrae L. Echols of Mt. Pleasant, S.C. and Reginald A. Green of Orangeburg, S.C., were united in marriage at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 28, 2009, at Radisson Airport Hotel in Charleston, S.C. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge ...
2010-01-03 09:25:00
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As a teacher of a reasonably new curricular effort called Development Mathematics, students who failed to demonstrate proficiency were sometimes given a grade "IP" which stands for "In Progress." Applying this idea to the Oakland Raiders would give ...
2010-01-03 12:53:00
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The new year is upon us. This is a time to view our faults and make resolutions to be better and healthier people. This is also a time of stress for many teachers who worry about their town's budget and whether they will become a part of what has to ...
2010-01-03 08:42:00
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Serving children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade, the academy held an open house Saturday morning at its new education center at 515 Ave. I, N.W., behind the Greyhound Bus Lines station. The new center, where students initially will ...
2010-01-03 05:58:00
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Two gifted high school students who participated in Oakland University's Summer Mathematics Institute recently garnered national recognition for their skills. The students, Randy Jia and David Lu, traveled to New York with Eddie Cheng, OU math ...
2010-01-03 05:07:00
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