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Rolle hitting the books with Steelers
AP Sports WriterPITTSBURGH (AP) — Myron Rolle and Troy Polamalu walked off the Pittsburgh Steelers practice field on Thursday, sweat dripping down their faces, jerseys drenched, arms moving animatedly as they talked. Was Rolle, a free agent trying to resurrect his...Tags: College Sports, Troy Polamalu, Lawrence Timmons, Diabetes, Football
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CNU's Moog embraces position switch, helps Captains at linebacker
Evan Moog is often asked if he prefers offense or defense. Christopher Newport's running back-turned-linebacker can speak at length about the merits and qualities of both, but his short answer goes something like this: Whatever helps the team; whatever...
Tags: Summer Olympics, London Theatre, Football, Heart Attack, Trips and Vacations
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Around Town: Postcard from Annapolis
This post has been updated. See note below. Right after Yom Kippur, we headed to our country's Naval Academy on a red-eye flight, or, as Virgin America puts it, “a midnight journey.” The stars were bright as we crossed the country. The...Tags: Judaism, Yom Kippur, Iraq, Annapolis, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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British magazine ranks Caltech best university in world
For the second year in a row, Caltech has been ranked the best university in the world by the British magazine Times Higher Education. Harvard dominated the top spot on the magazine's World University Rankings from 2004 to 2010. But Caltech raised to...
Tags: Periodicals, Stanford University, Google+, Newspaper and Magazine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Central Florida's young black men battle stereotypes
They are more likely to get shot, go to jail, drop out of school, end up in foster care, be abandoned by their fathers and have children of their own while they're still teenagers. Compared with other Americans, young black men have the statistical...
Tags: Trayvon Martin, Spike Lee, Minority Groups, Racism, Martin Luther King Jr.
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A Group of New Haven Students Keeps Tabs on Terror Groups Around the Globe
You've probably never heard of the "Boko Haram." The name "D-Company" isn't likely to ring any bells either. Nor will the "Arauco Malleco Coordinating Group." The first is from Africa; the second from India; and the last from South America. They don't...
Tags: Terrorism, Interior Policy, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Blackmail and Extortion, Students
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Bellevue man becomes first Iranian-American elected to state legislature
Q13 FOX News OnlineCyrus Habib became the first Iranian-American elected to state legislature when the Bellevue Democrat won his campaign for state representative in Washington's 48th Legislative District. Habib, who is also blind, won the open seat with 61 percent of...Tags: Blindness, Elections
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48th Legislative District campaign: A bellwether race
Q13 Fox News political analystA race that is getting a lot of attention in the upcoming Aug. 7 primary election is an open seat for the 48th Legislative District on the Eastside -- in the Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond areas. Many say it’s a bellwether for how the state will...Tags: Local Elections, Elections, Republican Party, Primaries, Health Insurance Cost
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New book tries to explain the roots of hypochondria
What do Andy Warhol, Howard Hughes and Woody Allen have in common with Chicago drive-time disc jockey Roe Conn? They all are — or were — hypochondriacs. But they're not alone. Due to our increased access to medical information, we are...
Tags: College Sports, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Social Sciences, Drugs and Medicines, Woody Allen
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Shirley Fout Miller
janeth@herald-mail.comShirley Fout Miller was a walking medical miracle. She contracted tuberculosis at age 12 from her mother, about seven years after Shirley’s younger sister and only sibling, Joan, died of diphtheria at age 5 in 1931. Shirley was not expected to...Tags: Long Term Care, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Virginia, Shirley
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Alexander Cockburn dies at 71; radical longtime columnist
Los Angeles Times Alexander Cockburn, the radical and acerbic journalist who had written longtime columns in both the conservative Wall Street Journal and the leftist outlet the Nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71. The influential writer had...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Authors, Christopher Hitchens, Cancer, The Wall Street Journal
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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
Tags: Buddhism, Steven Weinberg, Higgs Boson Search, Stephen Hawking, Fiction
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