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Nowadays, Valentine's Day is less sweet — and peanut-free
The rules for 7-year-old Riley Krieger's Valentine's Day party recently arrived from school: Bring one valentine addressed to each child on the list attached. Make a heart-covered shoe box on your own time or just bring a bag. Any treats for the class...
Tags: Weight, PTA, Teaching and Learning, Elementary Schools, Teachers
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Daum: Online's 'nasty effect'
Finally! Scientific research backs up my perennial gripe about the soul-killing, society-destroying effects of online comments. A study published last month on the website of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (which does not allow comments)...
Tags: Science and Technology, Jesus Sanchez
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Chamber orchestra presents 'The Virtuoso Orchestra' concerts
The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra will present a concert titled "The Virtuoso Orchestra" at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, at the First Congregational Church of Charlevoix and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, at the First Presbyterian Church of Harbor...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Arts and Culture, Lakes and Ponds, Music
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Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their anti-fascist views — shared their rations...
Tags: Prisons, Colleges and Universities, Stanford University, Chicago Tribune, Feminism
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Remarkable Woman: Kay Alden Nelson
Kay Alden Nelson's big break into daytime television sounds like a plot out of one of her soap opera scripts. "I was doing a dissertation for my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on how daytime television serials can be used as mediators...
Tags: Primetime Emmy Awards, Another World (tv program), Streeterville, Writers Guild of America, The Bold and the Beautiful (tv program)
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Mid-America Alfalfa Expo & Conference set for Feb. 5-6
COZAD, Neb.-Winter survival following a drought and how to best manage through that situation will be one of the key topics discussed by Dr. Dan Undersander at the Mid-America Alfalfa Expo & Conference to be held Feb. 5-6 in Kearney, Neb. “We'll piece...Tags: Auction Service, Natural Disasters, Droughts
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Setting an online example in educating women
The United States is leading a revolution in higher education. With the advent of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, U.S. universities will be increasingly exporting hundreds of college-level classes every year to the rest of the world. The...
Tags: Culture, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Colleges and Universities, University of Pennsylvania, Social Sciences
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Busted! Test-based teacher-evaluation program fingers the worst 8th grade math teacher in New York City (but don't worry, she's gone now)
Change of SubjectEducation Week tells us about Carolyn Abbott: Her score on the Teacher Data Report, the New York City Department of Education’s effort to isolate a teacher’s contribution to her students’ performance on New York State’s math and... -
Experts evaluate carrots at UC Cooperative Extension carrot research day
Staff WriterResearchers, scientists and agricultural business representatives evaluated a carrot crop at the University of California Desert Research Extension Center in El Centro on Tuesday. Just like sommeliers rate wines by flavor and color, discerning tasters...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Cheese Corn, Washington State University, Science and Technology, Education
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County health rankings for 2013 reveal wide disparity across state
St. John's is the state's healthiest county and Union fares the worst, ranking 67th, according to the latest county-by-county health rankings released today by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The healthiest Central Florida county is Seminole,...
Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Healthy Diet, Health and Safety at School, Poverty
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Cal State Long Beach president finalist for LSU post
L.A. NOWCal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander has been recommended to become the next president of Louisiana State University, Long Beach officials announced Tuesday. A presidential search committee presented the recommendation this week to the LSU... -
Raydon 'Ray' Durane Christianson
Raydon "Ray" Durane Christianson, 86, of Pierre and formerly of Aberdeen, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at the Highmore Healthcare Center. Ray was born Jan. 7, 1927, to Hans and Mathilda (Johnson) Christianson on a farm near Langford in Day...Tags: U.S. Army, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Shriners, Education
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