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Jessica Gardner Earns Gold Medal For Art
Press Release: Jessica Gardner, a junior Advanced Placement Art student at La Salle High School has received a prestigious 2012 National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Medal for her untitled painting.
Friday May 25 | Online Scene
Reversal of Processing of Emotion Occurs in the Brains of Left-Handed Individuals
A study by Geoffrey Brookshire and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Research in New York has shown that whether we are left-handed or right-handed can determine how our brains organise emotions.
Katie and Michael Barrett taken with the 2012 New York Mary Alice Ann Robinson at the New York Mary from Dungloe Irish Gala Dance on Saturday, May 19.
York County Coast Star calendar of events
Courtesy photo After touring many local schools to show this powerful 30-minute film, Video Creations of Kennebunk will ofer a public screening free and open to the community at 7 p.m. Monday, June 4. 'Point of No Return,' written by Kennebunk Police Chief Bob MacKenzie and directed by Blake Baldwin, features five Kennebunk High School teens and ... (more)
CCM 43rd Commencement Ceremony This Thursday
County College of Morris will present diplomas to the Class of 2012 at its 43rd commencement ceremony Thursday, May 24, starting at 7 p.m. Nearly 1,300 students, who completed their studies between August 2011 and May 2012, will receive diplomas in one of four degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Science or Associate in ... (more)
NY Design Week: WantedDesign Student Challenge, Part 1
When we checked-in with our student designers this Saturday at WantedDesign , they had just started on their challenge with the straight-forward parameters: make a light using laser-cut acrylic and 3M-donated films.
Former Nebraska Senator John Kerrey told graduates of LaGrange College on Saturday they are "uniquely prepared" to change the world and are more global and idealistic in their thinking than his own generation.
Marietta high school grad heads to NYC
Todd Durm decided at the beginning of his junior year at Marietta High School that he wanted to have a career in the medical field, but then had a change of heart, realizing that he would have more opportunities to express himself by being a photographer.
Bill Macfadyen: Swimming Horse Yields Wave of Readers of Hard-to-Believe High Seas Tale
Before I begin, permit me some self-indulgence so I can congratulate my son, Colin, who graduated this week from Parsons The New School for Design .
Want an Honest Answer? Send a Text
It may seem that text messages, so impersonal and convenient, aren't the best platform on which to ask sometimes-sensitive questions.
The Soviet Union is history, collapsed into a jumble of independent republics in 1991 after 70 years of top-down management by Communist Party apparatchiks.
Bob Kerrey too New York for Nebraska?
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey is trying to reclaim his old seat after a dozen years out of office.
New School students study in West Virginia
Seven students from The New School in Kennebunk, along with two teachers, recently went to West Virginia for a three-week intensive study of mountain top removal, for coal mining.
Study: Texting ups truthfulness
Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
NY Design Week 2012 Preview: WantedDesign Q&A with Francois Brument
Following last year's remarkably successful inaugural exhibition at the Terminal Building, WantedDesign is back and bigger than ever as a major satellite event to the 24th International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
ICFF Exhibition Explores Fabric as Structure
Design students will be taking fabric off the chair and forming it into a structural display at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York next weekend.
Writer Rebecca Serle will surely get some hate mail for reimagining Juliet as a greedy, jealous girl.
Realism versus reality seen through snapshots of Soviet life--a review
Appearance versus reality long has been a theme of intellectual criticism. From Abbie Hoffman 's throwing dollar bills into the air of the New York Stock Exchange to Kathleen Hall Jamieson 's critique of American media, the disparity between image and intent has been a touchstone in gauging the truth.
Love letter to Naples, warts and all
For me, no genre of literature is quite as enchanting or enriching as the travel memoir.
WAHS grad hopes for - Sweet Genius'
At 10 p.m. Thursday, more than 90 million households in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Asia will get the chance to find out.
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