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• B-Schools Search Globally for International Students

  
  Accepted Admissions Almanac — Authority: 125
  Reaching out to countries like India and China is old news already. The recent trend, according to BusinessWeek in "In Hunt for Students, Business Schools Go Global"   is to recruit from economically developing countries like Chile, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam. The number of U.S. B-school attendants from ...
  11 hours ago

• I Live In A Van Down By Duke University

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 121
  Duke University grad student Ken Ilgunas wrote a sublime piece in Salon.com about his own grand social experiment: He currently (until someone busts him after reading his article) lives in his van in a campus parking lot. Ilgunas went the standard student-loan route for his undergrad degree and hated the resulting ...
  12 hours ago

• Duke Faculty Prom Tonight!

  
  Kids Prefer Cheese — Authority: 584
  No, Im not kidding. The faculty "dinner dance" (clearly a prom, with a band, and hot women like the LMM) goes down this evening. Me? Ill be wearing the black tux..... Clean shirt, new shoes And I dont know where I am goin to. black tux, black tie, I dont need a reason why. They come runnin just as fast as they ...
  12 hours ago

• Eustis mom pleads guilty in child molestation case involving sex slaves, Duke official, adoption

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  For federal prosecutors, Rhonda Bays case is particularly appalling. For defense attorney Kyle Fletcher, Bays is a sick woman used by her boyfriend for his own "evil exploits." Bays let her boyfriend molest her 4-year-old relative, videotaped the incident at an Orlando hotel and later offered a 2-year-old for ...
  14 hours ago

• Winter Meetings Recap: Doumit unlikely to be dealt this off-season

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 146
  By John Perrotto INDIANAPOLIS _ The Pirates’ contingent left the winter meetings Thursday morning without making any major deals and that was not a surprise. The Pirates didn’t have any big moves cooking when they arrived Sunday in the city that truly put the winter back in winter meetings this week with some ...
  15 hours ago

• The Fed Is (Finally) Talking About Toxic Titles

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 428
  Thank You Deontos: This is the elephant in the living room. Once addressed it will be the largest title problem the country has ever seen. There is no continuity in the chain of title. There can’t be any such continuity. The phrase “toxic title” is a good one. Use it even in your correspondence.   The ...
  16 hours ago

• Free Live Music For Doser Youth

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 483
  Attention Under-30 Crowd! Being broke giving you the blues? Well, guess who else wants to give you the blues? For free! Head down to Lupo’s this Friday for the ‘Rhode Island Blues Reunion’ featuring former members of Grammy-winning Roomful of Blues and other assorted rabble from the local blues scene — Duke ...
  16 hours ago

• A Conflicting Deterrence Study

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 510
  The Science blog at USA Today has, " Study: Executions might slightly lower homicide rates ," posted by Dan Vergano. Executions in Texas slightly lower homicide rates there, about five to10 killings in the year afterwards, suggest criminologists.Theexecutions also may displace homicides to nearby states, however. ...
  16 hours ago

• Military Develops New Test for PTSD

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 578
  As everyone is aware, current military conflicts have been associated with high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder along with symptoms of depression and pain. Despite increasing prevalence of the symptoms, scientists are searching to determine why the symptoms cluster together and what is the best way to treat ...
  19 hours ago

• The Fed Is (Finally) Talking About Toxic Titles

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  It looks like the problem of banks walking away from distressed properties is finally getting some serious attention. Federal Reserve Board Governor Elizabeth Duke tackled the subject in a recent speech , Housing Wire reports . She detailed a disturbing trend TWI has been following since January 2008 : Banks ...
  19 hours ago

• Bon Iver Charity Album Gets Released

  
  Rock on the Streets - Music News — Authority: 435
  Back in April Bon Iver aka Justin Vernon played a charity gig at his former high school. The gig was to raise money to send the school’s jazz band to New York to take part in the Essentially Ellington competition. Well fans who couldn’t make it to the charity gig can now hear it, with a just released ...
  21 hours ago

• Image is Everything #12: Nave

  
  Why? What Have You Heard? — Authority: 143
  "Saint Somebody" Durham, NC - October 2009 (Click to embiggen) Image Is Everything   Thursdays on Why? What Have You Heard?
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• iPhone Catalyst to Education Reform

  
  DisplayBlog — Authority: 488
  Can iPhones be used effectively in an education institution? The iPhone is simply a computer that you take with you everywhere. Instead of a big screen it has a 3.5-inch LCD. Instead of a real keyboard it has a virtual one that comes up on the LCD. Instead of a mouse you use your finger and you can use more than one ...
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• Gastric Bypass And Diabetes

  
  Weight Loss Tips — Authority: 135
  Gastric bypass and other bariatric medical procedures are primarily performed to resolve issues of morbid obesity. Not only does gastric bypass help in weight-loss, but studies show that it has dramatic effects on diseases associated with obesity like heart diseases,…
  1 day ago

• Green Skeptic on Fox Business: Whos Attending the Climate Summit?

  
  the green skeptic — Authority: 117
  Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
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• Huntington: Rule 5 pick likely

  
  PBC Blog — Authority: 591
  By Dejan Kovacevic | 4:28 p.m. Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS -- Some quick highlights from Neal Huntingtons press gathering ... > On taking someone in the Rule 5 tomorrow: "I think theres a good chance well take somebody." That answer was far firmer than the one yesterday, where it sounded like the Pirates ...
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• Street artists beef up billboards with Doom graphics

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 781
  [Flickr user Mr. Talion] You know what? Driving around is boring . Luckily, some Germans are taking steps to amp up the experience by incorporating Doom graphics into billboard ads, effectively upping their cool factor exponentially. Check out this Flickr set and tell us these billboards are anything but ...
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• Who banged on Paulus harder?

  
  The Mixtape Monster Blog — Authority: 141
  Who banged on Paulus harder in your opinion?Was it Dwyane Collins of Miami:Or was it Jerai Grant of Clemson:The Monster says Dwyane Collins. By the way, as many times as Paulus got yammed-on, this could become a regular segment.
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• Christian Laettner on the Last 20 Years of College Basketball (video)

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 786
  In the early 1990’s, you simply couldn’t talk about college basketball without mentioning Christian Laettner . A two-time national champion while starring for the Duke Blue Devils, Laettner was one of the best college players of all time. How good was he? Good enough to be selected for the original 1992 ...
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• Duke Energys Large-Scale Battery Storage Project

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 134
  Wind.jpg A new project from Duke Energy ( NYSE:DUK) proposes the installation of large-scale batteries that store excess wind energy and discharge it during times of peak demand--not just when the turbines are in action.
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