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4 hrs ago | The Boston Globe

Next on the Huba s horizon

LET'S HOPE Mayor Tom Menino is recovering nicely from his recent knee surgery, and using the unexpected downtime to contemplate something he said shortly after his thumping victory to an unprecedented fifth term.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Wellesley, MA, Brookline, MA, Opinion

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Groong Armenian News Network

ANKARA: In Harvard Explicating Turks, Armenians And Pain

Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:36:49 +0400 IN HARVARD EXPLICATING TURKS, ARMENIANS AND PAIN Hurriyet Nov 18 2009 Turkey The Boston - Tsai Auditorium located in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a Harvard University campus.

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Related Topix: Turkey, Middle East, World News, Cambridge, MA

The Boston Globe

House leaders order furloughs for staff

House leaders are ordering their staff to take five furlough days, although lawmakers will not have to take them.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Springfield Metro, 9, Boat Disaster

Groong Armenian News Network

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator 755 Mount Auburn St. Watertown, MA 02472 Tel: 924-4420 Fax: 924-2887 Web: http://www.mirrorspectator.com E-mail: editor@mirrorspectator.com November 21, 2009 1. Tension, Emotion at Harvard Turkish-Armenian Forum 2. 'Hove' Is Short on Length, Long on Symbolism 3. Repatriate Mooradian Relives His Time Back in the USSR 4.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Armenia, Watertown, MA, Turkey, Middle East, Cambridge, MA, Tufts University

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Huffington Post

Poker Pros Make Excellent Traders, Says Harvard Finance Professor

Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional... Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week.

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Related Topix: Games, Poker, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Entertainment, Drama, Television, New York

Yourish.com

The perverse equivalence

In a paper on how the term "apartheid" is being used to deny Israel's right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces : The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East

Cognitive Daily

And now we turn to the topic of Artificial Intelligence ...

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Blog News, Biology, Anthropology, Yale University

Fox News

Harvard Looks to Cut Professors to Balance $110M Deficit

The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors in an effort to balance a $110 million deficit.

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Reuters

No hospital savings with electronic records: study

New electronic record systems installed in thousands of U.S. hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs, Harvard University researchers said in a study released on Friday.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law

Medical News

Ligon Discovery raises $1 million

Ligon Discovery, Inc., which uses proprietary small molecule microarray technology to find drugs against high-value targets, today announced that it has raised $1M in seed financing led by incTANK Ventures.

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Related Topix: Health

Thu Nov 19, 2009

WBUR-AM Boston

GOP Uses Mammogram Study To Attack Health Bill

The GOP has seized on the uproar over the revised recommendations for breast cancer screening, forcing the Obama administration to focus on political damage control.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, US News, US Politics, Dave Camp, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jean Schmidt

Philadelphia's WB 17

Cash strapped Mexico City pushes ahead with transit, bike improvements

Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico

Bloomberg.com

Facebook Common Stock Value Jumps 42% to $9.5 Billion on Private Market

The price of Facebook Inc. stock on exchanges for private companies has jumped as much as 42 percent in the past four months as membership of the site topped 300 million users and the company turned cash flow positive.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software

Medical News Today

Study Finds Uninsured Trauma Patients Much More Likely To Die In ER

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST "Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new ...

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Journalism, Medicine, Nursing

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Providence Journal

Panel to discuss effect of R.I. law governing marijuana possession

Should Rhode Island decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, as some other states, including Massachusetts, have done? Judging from the makeup of a newly created commission that met at the State House on Wednesday, that would seem a possible - if not likely - recommendation to state lawmakers when they return in January: roll ...

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Related Topix: Drugs, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Cranston, RI, State Prisons, Prison, Providence Metro

WHAS-TV Louisville

Mayor Jerry Abramson to speak at Harvard

Longtime Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson is heading to Harvard University to speak to a group of new mayors.

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Related Topix: Louisville, KY

New York Times

A Goldman Plan for Small Businesses and Its Image

How much good will can an apology - and half a billion dollars - buy? A lot, Goldman Sachs is hoping.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Small Business, Personal Finance, Business News

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

'Fringe' star John Noble celebrates weird science

Dr. Walter Bishop follows in a long line of mad scientists. An unbalanced genius like Bishop going at it in his lab is a pop-culture staple.

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Related Topix: Fringe, Entertainment, Theater, Arts, Comedy

Guardian Unlimited

Serving in parliament doubles wealth for Tory MPs

Conservatives who entered Commons between 1950 and 1970 died almost twice as wealthy as losing Tory candidates, study finds Press Association guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 17 November 2009 12.52 GMT Serving in parliament almost doubles the wealth of Conservative MPs thanks to lucrative employment offered on retirement, according to researchers.

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Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Portland Tribune

Non-believers use transit agency to promote a Good Without Goda campaign and new book

King size ads like this one are scheduled to appear on 10 TriMet buses for a month to promote a new book by Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University.

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