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9 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Budget short of what Patrick wanted

The Senate approved a $34 billion budget late Thursday night on par with spending agreed to in the House, but $800 million less than Gov.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law

Fri May 24, 2013

University Business

Silicon Mechanics awards Tufts Univerity a complete high-performance computer cluster

Tufts will use the cluster as a key component of an exciting, multidisciplinary effort to transform the way biological pattern formation is investigated.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Medford, MA, Biology, Science, Computer Science

The Swellesley Report

Wellesley High alum/Tufts pre-med grad leads team to national softball championship

Congrats to 2009 Wellesley High School grad Rebecca DiBiase , who captained this spring's Division III national champion softball team from Tufts University, where she just graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa as a pre-med student.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Bloomberg

Sloane: Help 9 Million Students Now or Pay Medicaid Later

The myth is that the U.S. should be doing a better job of preparing underprivileged high school students, so they can win scholarships to Yale, Harvard and other top schools.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Education Etc., Princeton, NJ, Dartmouth College, Williams College

Patch.com

10 Historic Homes to Be Honored Thursday

The Somerville Historic Preservation Commission will honor 10 homes Thursday night at the 2013 Somerville Preservation Awards ceremony.

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Lowell Sun

Senate motors through budget amendments

Tacking on special commissions and bumping up spending in areas across the nearly $33.9 billion budget proposal, the Senate on Wednesday charged through more than half the 725 amendments before it during its first day of annual budget deliberations.

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Related Topix: West Nile Virus, Health, Lowell, MA, Gloucester, MA, Deval Patrick, US Governors, Millbury, MA

NewsTarget.com

Turmeric - A fierce superfood spice that melts away body fat and defeats insulin resistance

Besides garnering attention as a a veritable fountain of youth, cancer tamer and fibromyalgia remedy, turmeric has proven itself to be a formidable weight loss superfood as well.

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Related Topix: Supplement, Turmeric, Medicine, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Life, Food, Dieting, Diabetes, Health, Nutrition

Harvard Crimson

Largest Donor to Harvard Doubles Gift to Wyss Institute

Swiss billionaire HansjA rg Wyss matched his record-breaking $125 million donation to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Charity , Harvard University, Boston University, Cambridge, MA

Wed May 22, 2013

Food & Drug Packaging

23 New England Colleges join effort to reduce food waste

Twenty-three colleges and universities in New England have joined an EPA effort to cut the amount of food that goes to waste.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, College of the Holy Cross, UMass Dartmouth, Boston College

Town Topics

Juried Art Show at TCNJ to Feature Work by Students and Teachers

ART, INNOVATION, IDEAS: Faith Ringgold will be one of four artists and teachers judging submissions from local students to The College of New Jersey's exhibition, "Art, Innovation and Ideas," opening Sunday June 2. Students from high schools in Princeton and Lawrenceville will be featured in the TCNJ art gallery.

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Related Topix: New Jersey, The College of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, Lawrenceville, NJ, Rutgers University

Tue May 21, 2013

South China Morning Post

Hong Kong not so racist after all as survey errors revealed

Hong Kong and Bangladesh may not be as racist as suggested by the world map on racial tolerance published last week.

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Related Topix: The Washington Post Company

Reuters

Health sites too complex, full of cliches: study

The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate.

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Related Topix: University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Medford, MA

Mon May 20, 2013

Scientific Computing/Instrument.

Printable Bionic Ear Melds Electronics and Biology

Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.

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Related Topix: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Science, Electrical Engineering, Printers

Patch.com

Psychologist Claude M. Steele to Deliver Tufts Commencement Today

Tufts University celebrates its commencement Sunday. Ceremonies begin at 9 a.m., and Claude M. Steele, a Stanford psychologist who specializes in stereotypes, will deliver the commencement address.

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Related Topix: Somerville, MA, Medford, MA

Reuters

Newer whooping cough vaccine not as protective

A newer version of the whooping cough vaccine doesn't protect kids as well as the original, which was phased out in the 1990s because of safety concerns, according to a new study.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations, Health, Family, Kids, Infectious Diseases, Medicine

Sun May 19, 2013

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Veterinarians graduate from Tufts University

Veterinarians have served in the U.S. Army since the days of George Washington. Once they served as farriers for cavalry horses.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Carson, US Army, Fort Benning, Fort Benning, GA, Johns Hopkins University

Sat May 18, 2013

Patch.com

Five Things: Somerville High School Foundation Raffle, Tufts Softball Team Graduates

2) Tufts Softball Team Graduates The Tufts softball team will miss Sunday's commencement because they'll be playing in the NCAA Division III College World Series.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Patch.com

At 71, Veteran Boston Newscaster Will Graduate from College

Jim Boyd, a veteran Boston anchorman and member of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame , graduated from high school in 1958.

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Related Topix: Long Island University

The Somerville News

Tufts Sociologist examines the past, present, and future of an All-American City

Susan Ostrander is a Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. Among the classes that she teaches are "Wealth, Poverty and Inequality" and "Making Social Change Happen: Roots, Activism & Community Organizing." She is also the author of several books, the most recent of which is this year's Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Somerville, MA, Temple University

Thu May 16, 2013

Kamloops This Week

Imagine No Religion this weekend

By Staff Writer - Kamloops This Week Published: May 16, 2013 9:00 AM Updated: May 16, 2013 9:51 AM The Kamloops Centre for Inquiry, along with CFI Canada and the James Randi Educational Foundation, are presenting Imagine No Religion 3 - the third-annual conference for religious skeptics and atheists.

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