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Limitless future awaits brilliant senior at Central High School
Matthew Guthmiller is a Golden Eagle that's flying high. The Aberdeen Central High School senior is working toward getting his commercial pilot license, pitching a business endeavor to investors and finishing up his final quarter of high school. He'...
Tags: Students, Science, High Schools, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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Tech companies set to graduate from Center for Entrepreneurship in Columbia
Paul Capriolo and the crew at Social Growth Technologies are looking forward to graduation, having spent years getting ready for the world outside this one-story beige building in Columbia. The Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship is not a school, but...
Tags: IBM, Under Armour Inc., MC Hammer, Kevin Plank, Inventories
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Trying to change minds in smart-meter debate
Concerns about utility smart meters are frequently dismissed as tinfoil-hat paranoia. But it's not so easy to dismiss Jonathan Libber. The Baltimore man delivers his arguments against the wireless devices in the calm manner of an attorney. He is, in...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Electronics, Environmental Issues, Health Organizations
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Stanford becomes 1st school to raise more than $1 billion in a year
The nation’s top fund-raising institution last year, Stanford University, raised $1.03 billion from donors, the first to raise more than $1 billion in a given year. Out of the nation's top 10 fund-raising institutions, two others were in...
Tags: Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Yale University
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Brooks promoted at Pitt-Johnstown
Shawn Brooks has been named the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s new vice president for student affairs. Pitt-Johnstown President Jem Spectar said that the college is lucky to have Brooks, considering his record of accomplishment. “...Tags: Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Students, University of Pittsburgh, Colleges and Universities
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Tribune truancy series wins national award
A couple of weeks ago, investigative reporter David Jackson wrote on Trib Nation about his work with colleague Gary Marx, Alex Richard and photographer Scott Strazzante about truancy in Chicago. Their series just won an award. The Education Writers...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Chicago Public Schools
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Executive Profile: Martin Nesbitt, the first friend
Chicago businessman Martin Nesbitt will sit on the dais in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday as his best friend is inaugurated president of the United States. The two men — successful African-American leaders who share a record of high...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Graduation, Business, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Chicago
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Adela Cepeda carved her own path to success
Adela Cepeda stepped adroitly along her path to become one of the city's most prominent Latina businesswomen. But she walked it on her own, rather than as part of the power couple she and her husband were once well on their way to becoming. Cepeda, an...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Denise Nappier, Ravinia Festival, Graduation, Chicago Public Schools
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John Thomas dies at 71; U.S. high jumper medaled in two Olympics
He was the overwhelming favorite in his event, so much so that U.S. sportswriters covering the 1960 Summer Olympics boasted that if Americans won just one gold medal over the rival Soviet Union at that year's Games, it would be his. A skinny 19-year-old...
Tags: Russia, Millrose Games, Colleges and Universities, Rome (Italy), Awards and Prizes
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PASSINGS: Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner, Lloyd Phillips, Donald F. Hornig
Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner Lead singer and guitarist for Ohio Players Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, 69, lead singer and guitarist for the Ohio Players, a band that fused rock, soul and funk for a string of R&B hits in the 1970s, died Saturday in a Dayton...Tags: Science, Movies, Angelina Jolie, Liam Neeson, Colleges and Universities
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For 2001 Ravens, Super Bowl ring not a guarantee of success in life
Tony Siragusa isn't the prettiest of men. The former Baltimore Raven played the thankless role of a 6-foot-3, 330-pound steel drum, crashing the line over and over, so teammates could sack the quarterback — and reap the glory. But "Goose" was a...
Tags: Denver Broncos, Gino Gradkowski, Police Arrests, Detroit Lions, Prosecution
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Bus hits overpass in Boston, injuring more than 30
BOSTON — A charter bus carrying high school students from Pennsylvania crashed when it attempted to pass under a bridge in Boston on Saturday night, injuring more than 30 people, several seriously, and leaving some trapped inside for hours,...
Tags: Colleges and Universities
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