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Austerity is hurting our health, say researchers
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday. Detailing a decade of research,...Tags: Stanford University, Substance Abuse, Career and Workplace, Medical Research, Labor Markets
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COLUMN - Russia's reckoning
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 7 (Reuters) - Russia is now in a hard, even dangerous, place. A series of shocks are coming, and it is not well placed to weather them. It has, to be sure, little debt:...Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Radio Industry, Political Corruption, Russia, Politics
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Razing the ivory tower
If you think today's university is home to individual thinkers thinking individually, think again. Today's university is international and multinational in every way — blown open, in great part, by this century's digital explosion of information....Tags: Tel Aviv (Israel), University of Michigan, Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University
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Greuel, Garcetti find different ways to balance kids, campaigns
One day last year, a 9-year-old named Thomas came home and announced he was running for office. "Are you kidding me?" his father responded. "Don't we have enough elections in this family?" Thomas, the son of Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, has...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Elections, Arts and Culture, Political Fundraising, Local Elections
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Who Will Run Al Jazeera America? Who's In, Who's Out, Who Passed (Exclusive)
ReutersMay 06 (TheWrap.com) - One of the biggest jobs in media is a new position and a high-risk opportunity: running Al Jazeera America. The job running the Qatar-based network recently bought from Current TV has high visibility and no doubt a high salary...Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Qatar, Anderson Cooper, Entertainment, Al Gore
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Harvard professor sorry for remark on economist Keynes' sexuality
Well-known Harvard professor Niall Ferguson apologized Saturday for what he called “stupid and tactless remarks” suggesting sexual orientation influenced the polices of famed economist John Maynard Keynes. On Thursday, Ferguson suggested...Tags: John McCain, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Politics
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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: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lobbying, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Justice System
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Do school programs keep kids from smoking?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain school-based programs that aim to keep kids from smoking cigarettes seem to work, according to a fresh look at some past research. After examining over a hundred "gold standard" studies, researchers found that school-...Tags: Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Arts and Culture, Students, Teaching and Learning
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For potty mouths
The Baltimore SunIf you are of delicate sensibilities, you do not want to be in the newsroom of a daily newspaper on deadline, because the swearing then and there is heartfelt, vocal, and repetitious.* But journalists have a complicated relationship with bad words,...Tags: Racism, F-bomb Dropping, Entertainment Events
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Inspiring Health Tips
Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine? A new study suggests, people who are happier in their daily lives have healthier levels of key body chemicals than those who muster negative thoughts. The study further suggested that happier people may have...
Tags: Medical Research, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Ovarian Cancer, Vegetarian Diet
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Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...
Tags: Science, Elizabeth II, Parliament, U.S. Embassy, Science and Technology
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Centre lecture 'Misquoting Jesus' complements library exhibit
Bart D. Ehrman, a prominent figure in religious studies, will speak at 7 p.m. today in Newlin Hall on the Centre College campus. Ehrman’s talk coincides with a poster display celebrating the anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible in...
Tags: Harvard University, Religion and Belief, Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University
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