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10 hrs ago | WNYC-AM New York

'Life Behind The Lobby' Of Indian-American Motels

Here are three remarkable facts about motels in the U.S. that you probably don't already know: At least 1 out 2 motels are owned by Indian-Americans. Out of those Indian-owned motels, 70 percent are owned by Gujaratis, people with roots in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

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Related Topix: Asian-American, Indian-American, Tufts University, Japanese-American

Fri Jun 01, 2012

DigitalBURG

UCM professor receives Fulbright Award to the UK

Wayne Miller, associate professor of english at the University of Central Missouri since 2002, has received a Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing Fulbright Award to enable him to lecture, research, and write, at Queen's University, Belfast, on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programs operating world-wide. Created by ... (more)

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Related Topix: University of Central Missouri, Arts, Poetry, Albany, MO, University of Houston, Kansas City, MO

Tue May 29, 2012

Cleveland.com

Solon, Russell and Chester students are National Merit Scholars

More than 2,500 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities were announced this week by National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

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Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Heights, OH, Harvey Mudd College

Mon May 28, 2012

Tampa Bay Newspapers

MFA presents Sunday music series

The Summer Marly Music Series begins June 3, at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The acoustics of the Marly Room are some of the best in the area, and the hall itself is one of the most elegant.

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Related Topix: Florida, Symphony, Arts, Amherst College, University of Houston, University of South Florida, Opinion

Fri May 25, 2012

The Darien Times

It's a race: Board of Ed seats contested for first time in a decade

For the first time in over a decade, there will be a contested election for Darien's Board of Education.

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Related Topix: Darien, CT, Norwalk, CT, Teachers College, Columbia University, Columbia University

Wed May 23, 2012

Portsmouth Daily Times

Building doctors to visit Portsmouth

A Building Doctor Clinic for old-building owners is scheduled to arrive in the Portsmouth area on June 14-15. The clinic features Building Doctors Judith Kitchen and Lisa Adkins of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.

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Related Topix: Portsmouth, OH, Scioto County, OH, University of Virginia, Ohio State University

Our World 2.0

Universities co-creating urban sustainability

The sustainability crisis has provoked an unexpected and dramatic response from academia.

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Related Topix: Strathclyde County, Scotland, United Kingdom, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania

Tue May 22, 2012

Fortune

How 100 iPads saved Greece $140 billion

I got a London call last week A from a Bob Apfel, a Brooklyn neighbor . It was pretty bold statement, but not entirely out of character.

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Related Topix: Oberlin College, Education, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Apple, Startups

Mon May 21, 2012

Chicago Chronicle

Different causes same purpose

Protesting in Chicago on Sunday, a group of college kids from Ohio were proud to be part of a bigger movement - but glad they didn't have to sleep on the ground."It's been really powerful to be here, to see people identify ways in which they're struggling against a lot of the same things," Oberlin College student Irene Milsom said.

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Sun May 20, 2012

Trading Post

Thwarted again

Cloverleaf sophomore Jacob Dunbar, shown playing earlier this spring, earned his second trip to the state tournament.

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Related Topix: Ohio State University, Plain City, OH

Fri May 18, 2012

Cleveland.com

Don Harvey exhibition at William Busta Gallery in Cleveland explores...

Some artists just get better and better with time. Don Harvey , a longtime teacher, organizer, instigator, artistic chameleon and all-around Northeast Ohio cultural provocateur, is one of them.

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Related Topix: University of Akron, Orwell, OH

Wed May 16, 2012

The Darien Times

GOP nominates Board of Ed chairman, new voter registrar

The Darien Republican Town Committee nominated candidates for the fall election last week that include the current Board of Education chairman and a new registrar of voters.

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Related Topix: Darien, CT, Columbia University, Bentley College

Mon May 14, 2012

Cybercast News Service

US honors black federal law officer killed in 1883

William Henderson Foote was a black federal law enforcement official in America's Deep South at a time of heightened racial tensions, tasked with collecting liquor tax revenue from wholesalers and retailers in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Collecting, Life, Hobbies, US News, ATF, Yazoo City, MS

Fri May 11, 2012

WVIZ-TV Cleveland

Applause: The Horseshoe Casino opens and The Rainey Institute El...

Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Cleveland, OH

Thu May 10, 2012

The Plain Dealer

Cleveland's star students get a boost in choosing colleges

Top seniors from the Cleveland schools are headed to some of the nation's most prestigious colleges in the fall.

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Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Standardized Testing, Education, Skidmore College

Hotel Interactive

Ramada Inn of Elyria Ohio brokered by Mumford Company

Mumford Company was pleased to represent an undisclosed institutional seller in the sale of the Ramada Inn Elyria Ohio to Elyria Hotels, Inc.

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Related Topix: Elyria, OH

Wed May 09, 2012

The Chronicle-Telegram

Lorain Schools trying for levy in November

Board members last month conditionally approved seeking a 1-percent earned income tax in August with a 2-mill drop in property taxes, if the tax was approved.

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Related Topix: Tax

Tue May 08, 2012

SeacoastOnline

Carroll J. Brown

His ancestor, John Brown, was one of the founding families of Hampton in 1638, and built the first three-masted vessel there at the river near Perkins Mill.

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Related Topix: Hampton, NH, Rye-Beach, NH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Rhode Island, Brown University

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