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BP Hires Gulf Scientists; Are They Buying Silence?	31.7.2010	NPR News
For months now, local scientists have been out on Gulf waters, advising the cleanup and measuring the damage. But there is growing concern that some of the best minds are being sidelined, since they've signed on as paid consultants to BP
UC Berkeley astronomer Don Backer dies	31.7.2010	SFGate: Top Stories
UC Berkeley astronomer Don Backer dies
1st high school stem cell curriculum offered	31.7.2010	SFGate: Top Stories
1st high school stem cell curriculum offered
Death of the Telephone Call	31.7.2010	Outside the Beltway
The phone call is a dying legacy of a bygone day, supplanted by less intrusive forms of communication.
Profit motive can spoil university sector \| Matthew Partridge	31.7.2010	Guardian: Comment is Free
David Willetts and Vince Cable's favour for private universities comes at a time when the American experience is turning sour A few days ago the BPP College of Professional Studies became the first private university college in Britain since 1976. David Willetts, the minister in charge of universities, evidently believes that competition in higher education, and the incentive of profits, will cut costs and drive up efficiency. Willetts also believes that experience elsewhere shows that the for-profit sector "helps widen access, focuses attention on teaching quality and promotes innovative learning methods, such as web-based distance learning". However, the entrance of the for-profit sector into higher education provision raises some ...
Panjab University gears up to control campus violence (Cached)	31.7.2010	New Kerala: World News

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Journeys: British Dorm Rooms Substitute for Hotels	31.7.2010	International Herald Tribune: Front Page
At more than two dozen universities in 20 cities in Britain, dormitories are transformed into bed-and-breakfasts during school breaks.
Dinkytown gets something it has lacked: a drugstore	31.7.2010	Star Tribune: Business
Neighborhood businesses hope the arrival of CVS will help attract customers to the area, where daytime student traffic has declined in recent years.
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Howard Zinn's FBI Files Reveal A Boston University Official's Efforts To Oust Him	31.7.2010	TPM Muckraker
Howard Zinn's FBI Files Reveal A Boston University Official's Efforts To Oust Him
College grants degree 60 years after rejection	31.7.2010	MSNBC
A black woman who was salutatorian of her high school class gets an honorary degree from the same university that rejected her admissions application 60 years ago. ...
Would-be seminarians struggle to pay tuition	31.7.2010	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Seminaries around the country expected to see their classrooms fill up this past year. They figured people who lost a job and who felt called to ministry would choose to enroll, just as they had in past recessions. But in Minnesota, some seminaries are seeing the opposite -- the bad economy is hurting their enrollment.
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St. Cloud's history of friction with outsiders	31.7.2010	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Many people who have moved to St. Cloud say fitting in isn't easy -- regardless of one's race, ethnicity, or religion. Given their different appearance, culture and faith, Somalis and Muslims have had a particularly difficult time.
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Shortcuts: The Benefits of Volunteerism, if the Service Is Real	31.7.2010	NY Times: Business
Shortcuts: The Benefits of Volunteerism, if the Service Is Real
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Looping Parents In On Armed Services Aptitude Test	31.7.2010	NPR News
Maryland is now the first state to require parents' approval before a student can take the widely used test -- which the U.S. military developed to identify potential recruits. The state also bars high schools from automatically releasing students' test scores to recruiters.
How much more for national glory?: Displaced DU students (Cached)	31.7.2010	New Kerala: World News

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A working mom doesn't necessarily hurt child's development, study finds	30.7.2010	Washington Post: Education
A working mom doesn't necessarily hurt child's development, study finds
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Woman not allowed to teach after burqa refusal (Cached)	30.7.2010	New Kerala: World News

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Global Volunteers program helps kids with English	30.7.2010	Post-Bulletin: Austin News
Sixty grade school students are coming to Austin for a week's worth of learning and exploring aimed at boosting their skills in the English language.
CNN Picks Up on Charles Sherrod's 'White Man and His Uncle Toms' Remark	30.7.2010	NewsBusters
COOPER: There's also a new aspect to the Shirley Sherrod story that's bubbling up online. Questions about her and her husband, Charles, a civil rights activist, keep bubbling up on some conservative blogs. The questions center around why and how Shirley Sherrod got appointed to her old job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the first place, and whether her appointment was somehow connected to a settlement she received from the government in a race discrimination lawsuit. Joe Johns joins me now live from Washington. He's been following the controversy online. Joe, what about it? What is it? JOE JOHNS: Well, Anderson, the facts are that in the '60s and '70s, the Sherrods and a number of other African-Americans operated a farming ...
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Linda P. Campbell: Texas mayor's answer' leaves unanswerable questions	30.7.2010	Post-Bulletin: Local Opinion
The graduation snapshots, radiant with vivid cap–and–gown colors and happy smiles, still cover the table in our front room as we count down the days to a pair of 18th birthdays and scramble through the last weeks of preparations for college.

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