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14 hrs ago | Daily Journal/Sunday Journal

10 Questions with Rick Kimmel

Pause for Patriotism will have a new location at River Road Park in Kankakee this year and a new president, Rick Kimmel, 52, of Bradley, chairman of Boy Scouts Troop 319 of St.

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Related Topix: Kankakee, IL, Bradley, IL, Bourbonnais, IL, West Texas A&M University

Sat May 18, 2013

Agri Marketing

Mahindra USA Announces Its "Women in Ag" Scholarship Program Winners

MAHINDRA USA ANNOUNCES ITS "WOMEN IN AG" SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WINNERS May 17, 2013 Source: Mahindra USA news release Mahindra USA, Inc.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Missouri State University, Northwest Missouri State University, Seguin, TX, Cornell University

Fri May 17, 2013

Arkansas Times

'Stand your ground' laws increase homicides

In a new study, an economics professor and a PhD student at Texas A&M University take a broader look at the laws' effect.

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Related Topix: Life, Self Defense, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Boozman, Representative Tom Cotton

WMDT

Salisbury University Announces New Ventures Overseas

The Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative is taking its pilot security program overseas.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Washington Examiner

Conservatives snag just 17% of top college commencement speeches

When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University last week and admonished Americans to stop listening to the voices of cynicism and criticism, the rest of the nation's top colleges must have been listening because only 17 of them have invited conservatives to speak, according to a new report.

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Related Topix: Ohio State University, Pepperdine University, Brigham Young University, George Bush

Business Journal

New Dean Amy Hillman talks research at ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business

Amy Hillman, the new dean at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, brings a research background to the top-ranked school.

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Related Topix: Arizona State University

Gilmer Mirror

Rev. Garbs to speak at spring meeting of Davidson Foundation

Rev. Rodger Garbs, Pastor of Marshall's First United Methodist Church, will be the speaker at the annual spring meeting of the Davidson Foundation held at the Josephine Davidson Memorial Chapel situated on Davidson Road at the center of the Foundation's 3000 acres near Harleton in northwestern Harrison County.

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Related Topix: Harleton, TX, Harrison County, TX, Texas, Southern Methodist University

Wed May 15, 2013

KMID

After West Disaster, Little Discussion on Soil Issues

As the catastrophic fertilizer plant explosion in West continues to elicit debate about regulation, one factor that hasn't been discussed as much is the soil of Central Texas.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Texas, Agriculture, Science

Minot Daily News

Robert "Bob" James Kasper

Robert "Bob" James Kasper, 80, of Austin, Texas, passed from this life on April 29, 2013, surrounded by family.

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Related Topix: Texas, Austin, TX, Lakeway, TX, Trent, TX

The Bayonet

ROTC order of merit, branching to change

FORT KNOX, Ky. — As a civil affairs officer at Fort Bragg, N.C., Capt. Will Wardwell will spend his days interacting with leaders and citizens in communities neighboring the post.

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Related Topix: Fort Bragg, NC

USA Today

Why the military hasn't stopped sexual abuse

A female soldier is groped inside a barracks, another in a base supply room, a third on a shooting range.

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Fort Hood, TX, US Military, US Air Force

EurekAlert!

Continued world food supply depends on character, virtuous leadership, authors say

This is the cover for Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation, by John Patrick Jordan, Gale A. Buchanan, Neville P. Clarke and Kelly C. Jordan.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Tue May 14, 2013

KBTX-TV Bryan

Researchers Turn To Texas A&M Software To Visualize Earth's Interior

The cause of earthquakes is known: tectonic plates scraping and clashing against each other.

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Related Topix: Computers, UC Davis, Davis, CA

RedOrbit

Human Middle Ear Bones Could Provide New...

Image Caption: Tiny ear bones the incus, stapes, and malleus could provide big clues to human evolution.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, Science

Lucianne.com

A&M researchers inventbeam to clean raw oysters

Some good news for oyster lovers: Texas A&M University researchers have developed a way to pasteurize oysters with an electron beam to reduce the chances of food poisoning from norovirus and hepatitis A, according to a national consumer health safety group.

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Related Topix: Hepatitis, Medicine, Health

MediLexicon

'Appreciable Correspondence' Between DSM-IV And DSM-5 Alternative...

A new "alternative model" included in the upcoming Fifth Edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lines up well with the current approach to diagnosis of personality disorder, according to a study in the May Journal of Psychiatric Practice.

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Related Topix: Health

Science News

Flame quencher offers less toxic approach to fighting fire

A new fire-retardant coating suppresses flames without the toxic effects of some commercially used flame retardants.

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Related Topix: Milwaukee, WI, Science / Technology

Mon May 13, 2013

Click2Houston

Texas A&M researchers develop safe oyster technique

Good news for oyster lovers: Texas A&M University researchers have developed a way to pasteurize oysters without using chemicals or heat to help reduce the chances of food poisoning.

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Related Topix: Food Poisoning, Health, Hepatitis, Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Examiner.com

Annual Women's Empowerment with Shantera Chatman

I had the opportunity to interview the founder of the Annual Women's Empowerment Conference, Mrs.

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Noozhawk

Local Productivity Expert Sara Caputo Cited in College Textbook

Sara Caputo, founder and owner of Radiant Organizing + Productivity , is featured in the recently published college textbook Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations by Ricky Griffin of Texas A&M University and Greg Moorhead of Arizona State University.

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Related Topix: Arizona State University