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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Colin O'Connor for National Post Many ideas on optimization sprang from problems the military had to solve during the Second World War, Wade Cook says. Why was your airplane overbooked? How come the price for a hotel room changes ...
2010-02-09 08:48:00
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State Police are working to fix a glitch that a local attorney says could be translating to unfair sentences on some drunken-driving convictions. Currently, the Alcotest - which replaced the Breathalyzer for determining whether a driver is legally ...
2010-02-09 08:13:00
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While Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger continues to offer excuses about his team's performances like a schoolboy explaining a disciplinary note from his teacher, Gael Clichy is refusing to step down. The French left back, whose team meets Liverpool at ...
2010-02-09 08:34:00
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I n 1938, the year my mother left Germany for good and never saw her parents again, Virginia Woolf published a book entitled Three Guineas . It was about how women could prevent war. Virginia Woolf’s name is not normally associated with great ...
2010-02-09 08:13:00
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Although many of his students started the year below grade level, Geller decided to set a goal that 80 percent would score as "proficient" or above on the math portion of the California standards test in April. Worried that families might not ...
2010-02-09 07:51:00
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Connellsville Area School Board will vote Wednesday on various revisions to both English and math courses to be in compliance with the state. Director Francis Mongell requested the approval of revisions to the Applied Communications Course, which ...
2010-02-09 08:13:00
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(CBS) That time of year is fast-approaching: tax time. And while that prospect is daunting enough, and we begin to gather our papers and receipts, we have to ask whether to tackle our returns on our own or hire a tax professional to do them for us ...
2010-02-09 07:58:00
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But the group’s latest complaint doesn’t employ science so much as basic math: Coke’s new 90-calorie cans cost more per ounce than the regular-sized cans. Well, duh. Smaller servings always cost more than larger ones — and they probably ...
2010-02-08 07:20:00
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The ball floated in the air, legacy all over it. If Peyton Manning could drive the Indianapolis Colts to a fourth-quarter tying touchdown in Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday night, the greatness stamp would be punched. One of the best of all-time, they ...
2010-02-08 09:57:00
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Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic curler Anette Norberg says weighing the risk of death and disease for Folksam Group gives her an advantage that may result in her second gold medal at the Winter Games this month. “Curling is a bit like chess on ice ...
2010-02-08 11:01:00
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Michelle Obama talked about a wide range of childhood-obesity-related topics with USA TODAY. Today, the first lady launches Let's Move to fight the epidemic. Here are some excerpts from that exclusive White House interview. On the scope of the ...
2010-02-08 11:09:00
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A: The mouse house and the company that Spider-Man built are now one . Regulators and investors signed off on the deal that made Marvel Entertainment, the company behind Spider-Man and X-Men, a unit of Walt Disney as of Dec. 31. And you're right, the ...
2010-02-08 11:30:00
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Like Duquesne University freshmen at a matriculation ceremony in fall 2008, college students need strategies for success. Students applying to college know doing well on the SAT and ACT entrance exams can improve their chances of being accepted at ...
2010-02-09 02:00:00
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Desirae Murphy-Hayes works on Algebra 2 homework at the Denver School of Science and Technology, which ranks higher than all but one Colorado school for graduating students who do not need remedial college courses. (Judy DeHaas, The Denver Post ...
2010-02-09 02:00:00
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The latest snapshot of how University of California students spend their time suggests sleep and socializing were far more important than classes and studying to the average undergraduate there. But that was two years ago, before institutions and ...
2010-02-09 03:19:00
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