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• U of I graduate student instructors continue striking

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  URBANA -- University of Illinois graduate student instructors plan to continue striking Tuesday after an estimated "several hundred" classes were canceled Monday, organizers said. Carrying umbrellas and strike signs, instructors picketed outside four major classroom buildings on the Urbana-Champaign campus while ...
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• SLIDERS ADD TWO U OF I PLAYERS

  
  Summer Ball — Authority: 143
  From the Springfield Sliders SPRINGFIELD, IL – Sliders management continues to pick out some of the best prospects from the Big Ten Conference. In past weeks, the Sliders have signed three Purdue Boilermakers. Two players from the University of Illinois have now been added to the Sliders roster. Left-handed ...
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• U. of Illinois Grad Employees Strike to Save Tuition Waivers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 641
        More than 1,100 graduate student employees, who teach nearly a quarter of the undergraduate classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), went on strike today after the university refused to guarantee continuation of the teaching and grad assistants’ tuition waivers.  The ...
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• 26,000 CWA Members Approve Pact with AT&T—and More Bargaining News

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 641
  Some 26,000 CWA members ratify pact with AT&T in the Southwest, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,200 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our ...
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• Panel to advise on U of I art program Monday

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  A $2 million University of Illinois art program that has educated only a few dozen students in the last four years is under review after the resignation of its champion, former Chancellor Richard Herman. Supporters say the unique program, based at the Phillips Collection modern art museum in Washington, gives ...
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• Illinois and Northwestern play for first Land of Lincoln Trophy

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 549
  For over sixty years, the my alma mater, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern University fought on the football field for the honor of taking home the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk. The name of the trophy upset a few dozen people, so the NCAA, in line with its drive to eliminate all Native American imagery in college ...
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• Renewable energy policy to result in 1.9M jobs, study says

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 149
  The Obama administration’s progressive support for renewable energy will result in about 1.3 million green collar jobs, according to a new report published by three U.S. universities. They will also elevate the average household income by more than $1,000 and America’s GDP by $111 billion by 2020.This sets Obama ...
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• Jay-Z Brings New York To The University Of Illinois

  
  MTV Newsroom — Authority: 694
  On Thursday night (November 12), Jay-Z unleashed his Blueprint tour on the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. With the help of Wale and N.E.R.D., Jigga invaded Assembly Hall (home of the University of Illinois basketball team) and tore through hits both new ( "Run This Town," "Empire State of Mind" ) ...
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• Illinois 2010 Elections–Round’em Up: Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes Clash at Candidate Forum; Mell, Laiacona, Madigan, Lang, Connor, Meister, Biss, Mullen, Raoul, Burns, and Poshard

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 476
  Comptroller Dan Hynes (Chicago, IL) — November 13, 2009 . From the Illinois 2010 elections campaign and cow-pie trail… … Governor Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes slugged it out at their first joint appearance at a candidate forum in Rock Island on Thursday night. Their exchanges were brutal. The Quad City ...
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• Michael Verderame Address to the Board of Trustees

  
  Kritik — Authority: 113
  (These comments, slightly edited, were delivered in the public comment section of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees meeting, November 12, 2009, in Springfield). My name is Michael Verderame. I’m a Ph.D. candidate in English at the Urbana-Champaign campus. I’m also a graduate employee, working as ...
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• U. of I. trustees begin search for new president

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  SPRINGFIELD -- University of Illinois trustees kicked off their search for the schools next leader today, as outgoing president B. Joseph White gave his final address to the board. Trustee Pamela Strobel will chair the 19-member search committee, charged Thursday with finding an inspirational and visionary candidate ...
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• Higher ethanol yields. Wet ethanol production process.

  
  Biotech — Authority: 129
  Esha Khullar, Agricultural Engineer. from the University of Illinois has said:“The conventional ethanol production method has fewer steps, but other than distillers dried grains with soluble, it doesn’t have any other co-products …”“Whereas in both wet and dry fractionation processes, the result is ethanol, ...
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• Rethinking the Term, “Dumb Jock”

  
  Alternative Health, Natural, Environmental & Organic News Blog — Authority: 127
  Everyone knows that exercise can make your inner and outer body healthier, but can it also make you smarter? Well, Professor Charles Hillman from the University of Illinois , says yes. He has proven, in his recent research that a little bit of physical exercise is in fact good for attention skills and ...
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• Biodegradable Silicon-Silk Circuits Implanted in Mouse

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 574
  The transparent silk film shown here contains small silicon circuits. A mouse (left) has been disinfected (the orange goo) and is ready to receive the film. Have you ever dreamed of being a cyborg? Sure, it’s a natural part of going through puberty, but it’s only ever going to be a dream unless scientists can ...
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• Chicago theater openings/closings this week

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 433
  show openings   1985 - The Factory Theater   All the Fame of Lofty Deeds - The House Theatre of Chicago   Becoming Ingrid - Rubicon Theatre Project Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Cooperstown - Theatre Seven of Chicago ...
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• Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With Humans

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 130
  In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
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• State of the Arctic – 11/9/09

  
  Weatherdem's Weblog — Authority: 127
  The state of the Arctic ice in November 2009 is the worst of any November in recorded history.  Arctic areal sea ice extent didn’t break the 2007 record for the absolute minimum, but it has never been this low in November.  Further, the extent continues to be nowhere near the climatological average, just like it ...
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• Side Effects of NSAIDs in Pets

  
  Dog Health Care by Dog Health Enthusiast Brigitte Smith — Authority: 99
  If you receive the Healthy Happy Dogs newsletter , or have been reading my sites for any length of time, you will know that I am very wary of giving my dogs any type of drugs without careful consideration.  (Of course, occasionally there is no choice, but more often there is). On the question of NSAIDS for dogs , ...
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• Western parents more dominating than East Asian counterparts (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has shown that parents in Western countries are more controlling and dominating over their children compared to those in East Asian countries.The research led by Eva Pomerantz from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and Qian Wang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong ...
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• Comics, Stripped

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 132
  Chris Fujiwara ’s study of Jerry Lewis’s films, just published by the University of Illinois press, is valuable for several reasons. One, of course, is the author’s thorough and perceptive analysis of the films, which, by itself, would make the book essential reading. But I confess that, having just received the ...
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