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Obama speech expected to focus on economics (Calcutta News) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American voters. us.rd.yahoo.com
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The 6 Coolest Jobs for Weird Majors (US News & World Report) You can put an unconventional degree to work for you in a surprisingly cool career. us.rd.yahoo.com
Other noteworthy blogs (Duke University) Anton Zuiker, manager of internal communications for Duke Medicine, is one of the lead organizers of North Carolina’s Science Blogging Conference. He and several other bloggers formed BlogTogether.org a few years ago to reach out to other bloggers in the region. us.rd.yahoo.com
Meet the new fall 2008 faculty members (The UTD Mercury) If you write or do research, what is your area of interest? My research is in nonlinear control theory with application to robotics. us.rd.yahoo.com
The top grads in the GTA (Toronto Star) They get the kind of grades most of us only dream about. One achieved 100 per cent in six Grade 12 subjects. Another is going to Harvard after scoring perfect on the SAT. And one tells a touching tale that changed her academic life: how, after flunking a test in Grade 4, a teacher gave her a second chance. From that moment on, she was determined to be a stellar student. These are the stories of ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Ten Years In, Rose Still A Regular Guy' (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record) HARRISONBURG - At first glance, President Linwood Howard Rose looks as intimidating as his name sounds. At a sturdy 6-foot-2, Rose can look down into the eyes of most men. us.rd.yahoo.com
EurActiv.com - Scholar: Secular-Islamist tensions in Turkey 'need to be watched' | EU - European Information on ... (EUActiv) While the Turkish court's close decision last month not to shut down the ruling AKP party kept the country's EU membership bid alive, tensions between secularists and modern, moderate Islam remain strong and need to be closely monitored by the EU, Professor Kevin Featherstone of the London School of Economics told EurActiv Turkey in an interview. us.rd.yahoo.com
Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? (ZDNet) The announcement this week of the launch of Amazon's Elastic Block Store EBS adds another vital piece to the cloud computing picture. The announcement is particularly significant since it takes the gloves off when it comes to meeting the demanding needs of enterprise class computing requirements. The Elastic Block Store... us.rd.yahoo.com
08-21-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb) JANET LAUNCHES PLEASURE PRINCPLE LINGERIE: Line is a collabo with Australian designer Bruno Schiavi. *Janet Jackson says she hopes to have her brand new Pleasure Principle lingerie line in stores by the end of November, which is one month before the launch of her "Discipline" tour in Vancouver. us.rd.yahoo.com
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