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Caltech 'Ditch Day': A different kind of brain workout
Wearing an ear-to-ear smile and her hair slightly frizzy from her helmet, Caltech junior Curie Ahn craned her neck up toward the sky, her eyes still wide from the adrenaline. “I was actually pretty terrified,” the biology major said. “...
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Hartford Schools' Announce 2013 Teacher Of The Year
The Hartford CourantMario Marrero's fourth-grade students believe their teacher is the best in "the whole wide world," in the proud words of one 9-year-old. Well, here's a start: the Betances STEM Magnet School educator has been named the city's 2013 Teacher of the Year....Tags: Teaching and Learning, South Windsor, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Teachers
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FCAT writing scores rise, third-grade reading marks up slightly from 2012
Florida students wrote better essays on this year's FCAT than in 2012 and third-graders posted slightly higher marks on the state's key reading exam, scores released Friday show. The scores are the first wave of results from the 2013 administration of...
Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Education, Teaching and Learning, Seminole County, Students
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Lake students show gains in FCAT reading, writing and math scores
Lake school children did better on this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in reading, writing and math compared to last year. Third-grade math and reading as well as writing scores for the district's fourth-, eighth- and tenth-graders were...Tags: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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All decked out: Museum's Tony Hawk skateboard exhibit ready to roll
FORT LAUDERDALE How to roll lessons about skateboarding, physics and creativity into one cool package? A new exhibit at the Museum of Discovery and Science is ready to show you how. The Tony Hawk: RAD Science Skate Exhibit features 25 interactive...
Tags: Skateboarding, Science, Applied Physics, Museums, Arts and Culture
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Josh Gooch accepted to West Point for leaders seminar
Josh Gooch, a junior at Lincoln County High School has been selected to be among 500 attendees at West Point's Summer Leaders Seminar in June. More than 4,000 juniors nationwide applied to SLS, which offers outstanding high school juniors the...
Tags: Technology, Science, Social Sciences, New York City, West Point
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Corn planting catches up
Have you been feeling “under the weather” lately? Many farmers breathed a sigh of relief last week as they finished up planting corn. Estimates are that 2.4 million acres of corn were planted from May 13-19 in South Dakota. About 95% of...Tags: Weather, Genetic Engineering, New York City, Weather Reports
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Construction set to start on major development in Roanoke
Developers say a new project in the city of Roanoke will transform a 22-acre site between Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and downtown. Friday morning, they came together with community leaders to break ground on "The Bridges." The first phase...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Entertainment, Hospitals and Clinics, Walnuts, Human Interest
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A Photograph From Spain Brings Back Memories Of An Emergency Beach Landing For Glastonbury WWII Veteran
The Hartford CourantAs Lt. Eugene Casale aimed the nose of the Douglas A-26 Invader toward England on an October evening in 1944, the cockpit area felt a little cold. So Casale flipped a switch activating a gas heater in the state-of-the-art twin-engine light bomber he was...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Simsbury, Disasters and Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Waterworks acting director named
NEWPORT NEWS – The Assistant Director of the city's Waterworks division will become acting director on June 1. Scott Dewhirst, who has been with Waterworks for more than 11 years, will succeed Brian Ramaley, who retires May 31 after 20 years as...Tags: Technology, Water Supply, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Engineering, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Robert L. Harrington May 22, 2013
Robert L. Harrington ("Bob") died at the age of 91 on May 22, 2013. He was the youngest and last surviving child of ten children born to Jim and Nora Harrington, who both emigrated to this country from County Cork, Ireland, and made their home in the...Tags: Technology, Republic of Ireland, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Arizona Wildcats, Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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California Senate OKs protections for kids of police, public officials
The state Senate approved legislation Friday that would make it a crime to harass or secretly photograph the children of police officers, judges and other public officials because of their occupation. The measure requires those convicted serve 10 days...
Tags: Quitting Smoking, Public Officials, Human Rights, Government, Elections
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