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1 hr ago | PennLive.com

Working on 'Arrested Development,' Camp Hill man spills the beans on revived series

"Arrested Development" returns with an all new season on May 26, 2013 on Netflix.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Hip-Hop, Arrested Development, Los Angeles, CA, Obsessed

4 hrs ago | NJ.com

Paulsboro Superintendent Frank Scambia announces retirement

Scambia, a 48-year veteran of education, has been superintendent for the Paulsboro School District since 2000.

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Related Topix: Paulsboro, NJ, Education Etc.

8 hrs ago | The Triangle

Comic pushes bounds of sensitivity

Anthony Jeselnik, a comedian and host of the television series "The Jeselnik Offensive," gave a one-hour stand-up comedy performance May 20 in the Main Auditorium, sponsored by The Good Idea Fund.

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Related Topix: The Jeselnik Offensive, Celebrities, Donald Trump, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

12 hrs ago | Philadelphia Public Record

City Workers In Poverty Double Under Mayor Nutter

A new Temple University study has found city workers in Philadelphia are twice as likely today as they were in 2007 to have incomes that fall below the poverty guideline for a family of four when wages are adjusted for the local cost of living.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA

Thu May 23, 2013

Wall Street Journal

When the First Amendment Is Repealed by Bureaucrats

Greg Lukianoff is right to criticize the Education Department for illegally trying to abolish the requirement that comments must be offensive to a "reasonable person" to constitute sexual harassment .

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Opinion

Corporate Counsel

Does a Graduate Law Degree Increase a Lawyer's Value?

Today, LL.M. degrees, a.k.a. Masters of Law, or, for the fancy, the Latin name Legum Magister, are offered in a variety of legal specialties ranging from trial advocacy to intellectual property to international law to taxation.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Estate Planning

Roll Call

Teens Road-Tripping to Watch Gillibrand Play in Softball Game

Two young women will be traveling from states away to cheer on Gillibrand in this year's Congressional Women's Softball Game.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, University of Pennsylvania, Representative Kristi Noem, Republican, US House of Representatives

Patch.com

WWII Veteran Reflects on Military Service

After nearly 71 years, Peter Rossetti still rattles off his enlistment date like it happened yesterday: Oct.

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New Media Journal

We Are the Idiots

Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University and a Master's degree and doctorate in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: George Mason University, Los Angeles County, CA, Carson, CA, Medicine, Malaria, Health

Science

Live Chat: Does 'Psychiatry's Bible' Need to Be Rewritten?

See below for the chat box. Join us each Thursday at 3 p.m. EDT for a live conversation with leading scientists and expert reporters.

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Related Topix: Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Wed May 22, 2013

O-R Online

Dona t judge a book by its cover

I'm writing this in Harrisburg where I'm honored to present at the Temple University PA Adolescent Sexual Health: Everyone Counts conference.

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Related Topix: Penn State University Park

World Magazine

Seeking true satisfaction

I was at the Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry on a recent morning, a beehive of industry and intelligence plopped in the middle of a blighted area where outside the walls are hustlers and addicts and down-and-outers. I got into the elevator with a young industrious-looking man in powder blue scrubs, one of the many bright dental ... (more)

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Related Topix: Orthodontics, Health

The Times-Tribune

Namedropper, 5/22/13

Past Presidents of the United Way Executive Association attend the group's annual meeting at POSH.

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Related Topix: United, PA, Old Forge, PA, Hunter College, City University of New York

Philly.com

'Silent Sentinel' Civil War statue returns

The bronze figure of a Union soldier, clasping the end of a musket, was moved to Laurel Hill Cemetery on May 22, 2013, where it's awaiting a new post and an old mission.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Memorial Day, Holidays

Tue May 21, 2013

Missourian

Leona Rubin named interim Graduate School dean

Rubin, currently a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, will begin serving as dean June 1, according to a news release.

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Related Topix: Arizona State University, Rutgers University, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University of Iowa

EurekAlert!

Race and gender influence diagnosis of COPD

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA - African-Americans are less likely than whites and women are more likely than men to have had a prior diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease regardless of their current disease severity, according to a new study.

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Related Topix: African-American

Philly.com

A new kind of college 'signing day'

With cheerleaders, mascots, and thunderous applause, thousands of students from Mastery Charter Schools gathered for a giant pep rally Monday, but the event had nothing to do with sports.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA

Mon May 20, 2013

CBS Local

Temple University Sophomore Puts School's Leftovers To Better Use

"The debate as to whether to buy food or to heat the house should not be a debate, in my opinion," says Temple University sophomore Nadia Ouazzi.

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Sun May 19, 2013

Philly.com

Stefan Abrams "Model #1" (2013), inkjet print, at the Print Center.

Two Philadelphia artists who created entirely different bodies of work in their careers but whose art displayed a similarly strong desire for personal expression are being remembered in memorial exhibitions this month and next.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Fine Arts, Arts, University of the Arts, Entertainment

Sat May 18, 2013

Asbury Park Press

Red Bank Regional student earns national award for skateboarding photo

Jacqueline Drewes of the Antonelli Institute presents RBR VPA photo major Ryan Murray of Little Silver with the first place award in the Institute's annual photo contest.

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Related Topix: Little Silver, NJ, Red Bank, NJ