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A career in helping and housing
Sun reporterCarole MacPhee started her career as an emergency response volunteer helping house needy people in 1972 after the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Agnes in her hometown of Wilkes Barre, Pa. She quickly found that her penchant for hard work and solving...Tags: James Rouse, Family, Floods, Condos and Houses, Emergency Incidents
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Professor Is Fulbright Scholar
Eric Martin, an associate professor of management at Eastern Connecticut State University, has won a Fulbright Scholar Award and plans to teach at the University of Belgrade in Serbia in the upcoming academic year, the university announced Thursday....Tags: Eastern Connecticut State University, Colleges and Universities
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Numbers don't lie: Girls equal to boys in math
SENTINEL STAFF WRITERSGirls do as well as boys in math, debunking old beliefs that female students just don't "get" numbers, according to a new national study. Recent Florida test scores back up the findings. The national study, to be published today in the journal Science,...Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Seminole County, George Bush, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stetson University
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Details emerge on Andrew Giuliani's suit against Duke
kathleen.kerr@newsday.com; sophia.chang@newsday.comAn apple almost killed Snow White, Adam ran into trouble when he ate one, and Andrew Giuliani says one reason cited by a Duke University coach for removing him from the school's golf team was that he tossed the forbidden fruit at a teammate. As Giuliani,...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Snow White, New York Weather, Weather Reports, Rudy Giuliani
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Palm Beach County School District to categorize 83 troubled schools
South Florida Sun-SentinelEighty-three Palm Beach County schools will receive various levels of support and corrective measures this year to comply with changing Adequate Yearly Progress requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school district on Thursday...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Art Johnson, Palm Beach County School District, Riviera Beach
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'High School Musical: Get in the Picture': six finalists
Reality CheckGuest blogger Lindsay Diokno on High School Musical: Get in the Picture: The second half of the Eastern auditions went quickly (thankfully) and mostly painlessly, with the contestants going from 30 to 20 to 10 to six. First, the kids......Tags: Religious Leaders
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Forget fuel; let's focus on local food
Even if the price of oil falls, the governor should launch a full-fledged sustainability effort to promote an expansion of farming here and the production of more Maryland food for Marylanders. In fact, all the governors of the Chesapeake watershed should...Tags: Diplomacy, Consumers, Georgetown, Towson, Farms
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Drama students perform Shakespeare in NYC subway
New Yorkers have long been going to see "Shakespeare in the Park." Now they can see Shakespeare on the subway. Two drama students are spending the summer performing the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet" in exchange for tips from commuters. Peter...Tags: Subway Transportation, Transportation
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Dolly hammers Texas, drops to tropical storm
The Associated PressHurricane Dolly slammed into the south Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, peeling off roofs and knocking out power to thousands before weakening over land. Local officials' greatest fear -- that the levees...Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Hurricanes, Hurricane Preparedness
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Andrew Garfield in 'Boy A'
Special to The TimesANDREW GARFIELD enters the bar of an upscale Beverly Hills hotel as if by accident. With a few days' worth of boyish scruff, a backpack, long shorts and a flannel shirt, he doesn't look like an award-winning, up-and-coming star-to-be. He looks a little...Tags: Robert Redford, Celebrity, Wanted, John Crowley, Beverly Hills
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