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House approves student loan rates linked to financial markets despite a veto threat
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party lines. The Republican-backed...Tags: John Kline, Congressional Budget Office, Finance, Elections, Human Interest
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USDA funds studies of weather and climatic variability impact on cattle
MADISON, Wis. - On May 7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $19.5 million to support research, education and Extension activities associated with climate solutions in agriculture aimed at the impacts of climate variability and change on...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Beverage Industry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kansas State University , Science
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St. Francis professor going to leadership academy
St. Francis University chemistry professor Pedro Muino was selected by the Council of Independent Colleges and the American Academic Leadership Institute to participate in a year-long Senior Leadership Academy. The 26 mid-level administrators chosen for...Tags: Chemistry, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Education
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Use gypsum to build soils and buffer weather
Chicago - Ohio farmer Les Seiler has applied gypsum to his fields for the past five years. His farm is based in Fulton County, Ohio, 40 miles west of Toledo and near the Michigan border where Seiler says cold and wet spring weather is “guaranteed.”...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, New Products, Weather Reports, Science and Technology, Science
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The world through a newborn's senses
Newborns arrive in this world somewhat half-baked or, in the more measured words of evolutionary anthropologist Wanda Trevathan of the University of New Mexico, "a little unfinished, if you will." Parents declare them beautiful, these wailing bundles of...
Tags: University of New Mexico, Science and Technology, Science, American Academy of Pediatrics
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UConn's Herbst: 13th On Highest Paid List
An annual survey of compensation at public colleges reveals that the University of Connecticut, while not yet in the top tier of public universities, ranks quite well when it comes to paying its president. UConn weighs in at #13 on the list prepared by...Tags: Ball State University, The Pennsylvania State University, Graham Spanier, University of Florida, Virginia Tech
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Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts
Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...Tags: Arts and Culture, New York University, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Stanford University
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Bell-Jeff names Fauria new football coach, athletic director
The Bellarmine-Jefferson High administration was looking for a new football coach and athletic director with expertise, experience and a vision to help build the school's sports programs. The school seems to have found all those attributes in Lance...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Football, Washington Huskies, Christianity, Sports
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Spending teenage years in the 'stroke belt' seems to increase risk
Spending adolescence in the “stroke belt” of the southeastern United States could make people more vulnerable to stroke later in life – even if they eventually move elsewhere, a study published Wednesday suggests. What researchers call...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, University of Alabama, Physical Conditions
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Missionaries coming to Boswell church
Dr. Andrew and Judy Bennett will hold a missionary service at the New Life Church of the Nazarene, Boswell, Saturday. There will be a barbecue fellowship meal at 5 p.m. with the service immediately following the meal. Andrew and Judy Bennett are...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Drugs and Medicines
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Tracking the long-distance travels of dust
Spring stirs pollen, and also dust — high-flying dust that's blown thousands of miles to reach North America in greater amounts than scientists have known before, with potential impact on the climate and air quality. Mineral dust rises from dry...
Tags: Space Programs, Catonsville, Kennedy Space Center, Travel, Science and Technology
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When a parent is stage-struck
In the late 1970s and '80s, Melissa Francis was all over TV. She appeared in almost 100 commercials and spent two years in the cast of "Little House on the Prairie." But Francis, now an anchor on the Fox Business Network, didn't reach those heights by...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Family, Human Interest, Fox Business Network (tv network), Marquette University
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