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Education gets a boost from lawmakers
Florida lawmakers took on an ambitious education agenda in their session that ended Friday, voting to beef up school budgets, provide raises to teachers, revamp high-school graduation requirements and more. Here are some of the key items, most of...
Tags: Politics, Seminole County, Justice System, Andy Gardiner, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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Don't let Donnelly off the hook on gun legislation
On a day our president called "shameful," the Senate defeated four gun control measures. On the weakest highly compromised Toomey-Manchin measure, expanding background checks, our two senators split their votes; Republican Dan Coats voted no, Democrat Joe...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Interior Policy, Chasing Ice (movie), Harry Reid
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body is released for Muslim funeral rites
The remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon, has been turned over to a funeral parlor in Worcester, Mass. for proper Muslim funeral rites. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a gun battle with police days after...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Awards this week: Edgars, Ellies
Just when you thought literary awards season was over, there were not one but two occasions to get dressed up and applaud great writers and their publications Thursday. They both took place in New York -- meaning we didn't have to hit the dry cleaner --...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, The Wire (tv program), Stephen King, Arts and Culture, Google+
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Tech hardware boom seen as manufacturing costs fall
Tribune reporterDecreasing costs of manufacturing will lead to a mushrooming of IT hardware companies in the coming years, according to MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito. "That trend of software getting cheap to make is also happening with hardware with the manufacturing...Tags: Science and Technology, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Google Inc.
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Boston bombing: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body is finally laid to rest
The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died after a gun battle with police, has found its final resting place, ending more than a week of confusion and anger about how to deal with the remains of the suspected Boston Marathon bomber. Police in Worcester,...Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Transit cop shot in Boston bombing chase recovering, cracking jokes
Richard “Dic” Donohue Jr. came to the edge of death after a bullet to his right thigh severed his femoral vein and artery. The 33-year-old Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer from Woburn, Mass., lost his entire blood supply...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sean Collier, Shootings, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Mobile computing
From the Chicago TribuneOnce upon a time, long long ago, the personal computer transformed the global economy, made heroes of nerds and gave everyday people the processing power once reserved for space scientists. Now, of course, smartphones and tablets are turning PCs into...Tags: Science and Technology, Microsoft Corporation, Google Glass, Cartoons, Google Inc.
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Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....
Tags: Diabetes, Lifestyle and Leisure, Medical Research, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Research
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Cheaters never prosper, and neither does anyone else
Ever feel like you were the one doing all the work while everyone else just sat back and enjoyed the fruits of your hard labor? Well then you might appreciate the plight of those lowly yeast cells that work overtime breaking down table sugar into...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Space Programs, Barack Obama
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Using technology to fight cheating in online education
While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...
Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Harvard University, University of Maryland, College Park, Government
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