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Virginia Tech president Steger stepping down
Virginia Tech president Charles Steger announced Tuesday that he is stepping down. Steger is scheduled to give the commencement speech at Virginia Tech’s graduation Friday. Steger has been the school’s president since 2000. “When...
Tags: Life Sciences Institute Incorporated, Virginia Tech, Financial Aid, Science and Technology, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Pharmaceutical Firm's Growth Bucks State Trend
The Hartford CourantAt Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, the second-largest drug company in Connecticut, the local workforce increased by more than 40 percent over the last 10 years, at the same time its employee numbers worldwide grew by 35 percent. A company that...Tags: West Hartford, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Science and Technology, Economy, Business and Finance, Texas Tech University
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Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents
It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...Tags: Mastectomy, Ovarian Cancer, Genetic Engineering, Medical Research, The New York Times
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Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Chemical Industry, Biology, Science and Technology, Angelina Jolie
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Variety of items on IID agenda
Staff WriterA number of items that may have far-reaching implications are on the agenda at today’s Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors meeting. The board will consider renewing General Manager Kevin Kelley’s contract in closed session. His... -
Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says
Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...
Tags: Burger King Whopper, Heart Failure, Lifestyle and Leisure, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Building Material, Museums
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USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer
The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...
Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Alzheimer's Disease, Technology, Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Going gluten-free more common, but not necessarily easier
For more than 20 years, Kristine Kidd tasted what came her way as the food editor at Bon Appetit magazine. But she never felt great. "I had digestive issues my whole life," she says, but 21/2 years ago, the aching joints, bloating, fatigue and digestive...
Tags: Restaurants, Recipes, Consumers, Israel, Lifestyle and Leisure
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State Universities Getting Short End Of The Stick
The Hartford CourantAs the legislative session heads toward a close, Connecticut citizens and legislators should question why the state provides much higher subsidized public support to students at the University of Connecticut than to those in the Connecticut State...Tags: Eastern Connecticut State University, Colleges and Universities, Students, Services and Shopping, University of Connecticut
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Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore
The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency'...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Social Issues, Business
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Hopkins announces $4.5 billion fundraising goal
Johns Hopkins announced Saturday a $4.5 billion fundraising goal — among the largest in the country — to help the university and health system address some of the world's most challenging issues, including water scarcity, education quality and...
Tags: Charity, Financial Aid, Michael Bloomberg, Economy, Business and Finance, Johns Hopkins University
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