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Romney Sweeps 5 Primaries; Declares Race is on with Obama
CNNAfter Mitt Romney swept the five Republican primaries being contested Tuesday, he turned from securing the Republican nomination and toward the general election against President Barack Obama. The former Massachusetts governor was projected to win in...Tags: Aaron Schock, CNBC (tv network), Television Industry, Executive Branch, Politics
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Romney Sweeps Tuesday's Primaries; Declares Race with Obama
KTLA News(CNN) -- Mitt Romney swept the five Republican primaries being contested Tuesday, and he turned from securing the Republican nomination and toward the general election against President Barack Obama. The former Massachusetts governor was projected to win...Tags: Aaron Schock, CNBC (tv network), Television Industry, Executive Branch, Politics
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Obama 'Slow Jams the News' with Jimmy Fallon (VIDEO)
KTLA NewsDuring a Tuesday night appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," President Obama did what no other president has done before: He slow jammed the news. Obama stepped in for news anchor Brian Williams -- who usually does the segment -- to slow jam...Tags: Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams
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Oops! UCSD Sends Wrong E-Mail to Rejected Students
SAN DIEGO -- UC San Diego Admissions Director Mae Brown said Tuesday that an "administrative error" was responsible for a bogus e-mail that went out to 28,000 students congratulating them on their admission and welcoming them to the campus. The...Tags: University of California, San Diego, Colleges and Universities, Education, Los Angeles Times, University of California
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Fruit juice targeted in war on obesity
Over the past decade, the nation's war on obesity has targeted some fairly obvious culprits, including fast food, pastries, fried foods and soda. But recent scientific studies and a new government-sponsored documentary that aired last week on HBO have...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Diabetes, Dietary Fiber, Health and Safety at School, Calcium
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Congress sounding increasingly like teenagers, study says
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved to that of teenagers, it’s because they have. The level of discourse in the House and Senate has dropped a full grade level -- to the equivalent of a sophomore in high school,...Tags: Parties and Movements, Harry Reid, Barbara Lee, Politics, YouTube
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Parents hire own researchers to tackle rare, fatal disease
When it comes to advocating against her 8-year-old son's serious illness, Gelse Tkalec is on a much lonelier path than those strewn with pink ribbons and yellow bracelets. There are only 25 to 30 children worldwide known to have giant axonal neuropathy,...
Tags: Labor Day, Biology, Food and Drug Administration, Health and Safety at School, Genes and Chromosomes
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Nighttime fasting may foster weight loss
In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish towel at 7 p.m. and declaring "the kitchen is closed" seems a quaint relic of an earlier era. It also harks back...
Tags: Obesity, Weight, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Heart Disease
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Reaching new heights safely
Ian Yarmus can spot them when he goes down to his favorite indoor climbing gym in Rockville or when he travels to Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, the place after which he named his now 3 -year-old daughter. "I remember being 100 feet up [at Seneca], and...Tags: Mountaineering, Climbing, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Montgomery County (Virginia)
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More schools connect with students via Web
It's often cheaper, and certainly more convenient, but you might wonder whether you get what you pay for with an online MBA.
A few top-flight business schools have entered the online world, bringing cachet to the field. But skeptics abound. Access to the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Students, Science and Technology, Indiana University
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Defense rests without calling former candidate Edwards, mistress in campaign finance criminal case
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards’ defense team rested Wednesday without calling the two-time Democratic presidential candidate or his one-time mistress to the witness stand, a sign of confidence after presenting little more than two days...
Tags: Trials, Elections, Cancer, John Edwards, Witnesses
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Carolyn Klyce 1949-2012
Carolyn Klyce approached her students with the same curiosity that she encouraged in them, colleagues said. Last spring, she brought a bunch of big earthworms to her early education classroom at Yeager Elementary School in North Chicago and put them...
Tags: Vanderbilt University , Colleges and Universities, Students, Field Museum of Natural History, Teaching and Learning
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