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Obama Talks Higher Education with Students

By Obama Talks Higher Education with Students

By NEAL J. RILEY The Daily Free Press, Boston U. UWIRE- President Barack Obama told college students on Monday not to set their life goals any lower despite a challenging economy, and urged the college-aged ...

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Getting A Masters Degree May Not Be The Answer

By Getting A Masters Degree May Not Be The Answer

By KAITLIN EK Daily Nebraskan, U. Nebraska UWIRE - More than 15 million workers were counted among the unemployed in August, which saw the nation’s unemployment rate climb to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent in ...

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Book Rentals, e-Books Help Lighten Financial Load for Students

By Book Rentals, e-Books Help Lighten Financial Load for Students

By SHAWN ADDERLY Daily Illini, U. Illinois UWIRE - In 2008, former President George W. Bush signed a re-authorization of the Higher Education Act. It had three provisions aimed at driving down textbook costs. U.S ...

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Being Unemployed is a Blessing, Not a Curse

By Being Unemployed is a Blessing, Not a Curse

By Jordan Swanson, Central Florida Future (Univ. of Central Fla.) UWIRE – Are you one of those people who is always complaining about their job? Or maybe you have a friend who does? Well, I ...

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Techy Teaching: Professors Use Facebook to Promote Discussion, Interaction

By Techy Teaching: Professors Use Facebook to Promote Discussion, Interaction

By PAULINE KENNEDY, Kansas State Collegian UWIRE - Pen and paper used to be the go-to supplies for any classroom. Now, it is never uncommon to need a computer for schoolwork, be it to check ...

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Student Loan Debt Outpaces Credit Card Debt in U.S.

By Student Loan Debt Outpaces Credit Card Debt in U.S.

By PRIYA ANAND The GW Hatchet Consumers owe more on their student loans than their credit cards, according to data released this month by the Federal Reserve. The data found that in June, Americans owed ...

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Officials Crack Down on Music Pirates in Colleges

By Officials Crack Down on Music Pirates in Colleges

By THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER University of Arkansas Music piracy is by no means a new issue to college campuses. However, students will find that crackdowns on illegal downloads are heavier and more serious this year ...

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Oil Spill Creates Research Opportunities for Students at U. North Florida

By Oil Spill Creates Research Opportunities for Students at U. North Florida

By MAX JAEGER The Spinnaker The Deep Horizon oil spill has caused an as-yet immeasurable amount of damage to Florida’s ecology and economy, but for U. North Florida’s coastal biology program, and ones like it ...

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College Students Lack Sleep, Results in Potential Nightmare

By College Students Lack Sleep, Results in Potential Nightmare

By SHANNON FRAZER Kentucky Kernel, U. of Kentucky Despite the rise of powerful businesswomen and working moms, traditional gender stereotypes continue to flourish, especially amongst men, according to a recent study by a Cornell grad ...

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Rethinking Derogatory Terms: No More “No Homo”

By Rethinking Derogatory Terms: No More “No Homo”

By KRISTIN BEAL The Gateway, U. Nebraska-Omaha UWire – “Dude, I love you guys. No homo.” As I was walking across campus the other day, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a few ...

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3D X-rays might be possible, says U. Nebraska professor

By 3D X-rays might be possible, says U. Nebraska professor

By Ellen Hirst, Daily Nebraskan, U. Nebraska Intense laser physics. Sounds fun, right? Anthony Starace, a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has had 15 years to appreciate the joy of ...

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HIV vaccine still far from effective, UCLA researchers say

By HIV vaccine still far from effective, UCLA researchers say

Effective treatments and vaccines for HIV have so far been elusive, and UCLA researchers said they do not believe a solution for either will present itself in the next few years. A recent study in Thailand found an HIV vaccine that is 31 percent effective in reducing HIV infection, according to a statement from the National Institutes of Health. But Kathie Ferbas, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine who also conducts HIV research, said it is still too early to come to conclusions about the newest HIV vaccine, which is actually a combination of two vaccines previously determined to be ineffective.

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Red Hat CEO explains benefits of open source

By Red Hat CEO explains benefits of open source

Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst opened the third year of Fidelity Investment’s lecture series “Leadership in Technology” with his address entitled “The Open Source Opportunity,” Tuesday night in North Carolina State University Engineering Building II. Red Hat is one of the fastest growing and most profitable software companies in the country, and “we do that by giving everything we do away,” said Whitehurst.

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Carroll is Responsible for USC’s Latest Letdown

By Carroll is Responsible for USC’s Latest Letdown

F. Scott Fitzgerald ended The Great Gatsby with the metaphor of boats beating against the current, an image that has become so cliché it seems to have lost all meaning. But it was hard not ...

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