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41 min ago | Wired News

Universities Launch Collective Digital Library, 78 Terabytes Large

Twenty three universities have agreed to share and combine their digitized content, including millions of scanned books and documents, in one gigantic, 78-terabyte library that launched Monday.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Mon Oct 13, 2008

Poughkeepsie Journal

Health & Fitness File

Breast surgeon joins Dyson -Surgeon Dr. Hank Schmidt has been named to the breast surgery program at Vassar Brothers Medical Center's Dyson Center for Cancer Care.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, University of Georgia Medical College

Lincoln Daily News

Genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer for women on Medicaid authorized

Illinois women enrolled in Medicaid who are considered to have a high risk for developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer now have access to genetic testing and counseling.

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Related Topix: Illinois, Illinois Government, Ovarian Cancer, Health, Medicaid, Genetics, Biology, Science, Medicine, Breast Cancer

Inter Press Service

MIDEAST: Israel May Have Become a Liability for U.S.

Israel May Have Become a Liability for U.S. Analysis by Cherrie Heywood RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 13 - The relationship between two of Iran's strongest critics, the U.S. and Israel, is once again under the ...

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Nuclear Energy, Ehud Olmert, US Military, US Air Force, Harvard University

Chronicle.com

University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library

As universities around the world compete harder for students and professors, they look more closely at where they stand in the growing number of international rankings.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, University of Virginia

Sun Oct 12, 2008

The New Braunfels Herald

Nobel physics prize goes to 2 Japanese, 1 American

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

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Related Topix: Physics

The Times

2 teens shot on Chicago's South Side

Chicago police say one teenager was killed and another was severely wounded in a shooting on the city's South Side.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

PR-inside.com

Amid the meltdown, econ Nobel no easy pick

If history is any guide, this year's Nobel economics prize will award the developers of economic theories that have had the time to take root, grow and prove resilient.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Sweden, World News, New York University

Free Republic

Acorn hired Obama in 1992

Indeed, Mr. Obama has extensive connections with the granddaddy of activist groups, Acorn , which has gotten millions in government grants for its low-income housing programs.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Cosmic Variance

That Darn Overhead Projector

Regular CV readers already know of John McCain's past griping about planetariums .

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, John McCain, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Chicago Metro

Sat Oct 11, 2008

Chesterton Tribune

Daycare provider responds to 'misleading press coverage' of infant death investigation

The attorney for the Liberty Township day-care provider who discovered 6-month-old Nicholas Munden unconscious on Sept.

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Related Topix: Chicago Metro

Toledo Blade

Obama's fishy associations

WHO is Barack Obama? Is he the thoughtful, moderate guy he's appeared to be in the first two presidential debates? Or is he a closet radical? The election is less than a month away, and we still don't know.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Columbia University

Chicago Magazine

Zara Opens in Skokie

Few affordable stores inspire the devotion of Spanish-based Zara . A steady stream of those who have shopped the brand in Europe or the coasts have poured into the Old Orchard store since it opened on Sept.

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Related Topix: Skokie, IL, Chicago, IL, Bucktown (Chicago, IL), Wicker Park (Chicago, IL), Chicago Metro

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Lansing State Journal

GM shares up slightly; source says more production cuts likely

UPDATED 12:22 PM - NEW YORK - General Motors Corp. shares hit their lowest price since 1949 in the opening minutes of trading today as financial turmoil and a weakening global auto market heightened worries ...

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Related Topix: GMC GM, GMC, Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile 88

BrothersJudd Blog

Off Message! Off Message! Off Message! :

Barack, Bill, and Me : The Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no "domestic terrorist." That Barack Obama and William Ayers knew each other during the 1990s may tell us something about the two ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

EurekAlert!

Expert: Flawed corporate watchdog methods helped fuel economic crisis

Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business law expert ...

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Thu Oct 09, 2008

Bloomberg

Harvard Tops World University Ranking for Fifth Year Running; Yale Second

U.S. and U.K. universities continue to dominate an annual ranking of the world's top 200 higher education institutions, with Harvard heading the table for the fifth year running, Yale in second place and ...

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, US News

MyFOX Atlanta

GM Shares Tumble 31 Percent to 58-Year Low

Shares of General Motors Corp. lost nearly one-third of their value Thursday, plunging to their lowest level since July 1950 after Standard & Poor's said the automaker's credit could fall further into junk ...

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Related Topix: GMC GM, GMC, Automakers, General Motors, Financial Markets, Dearborn, MI

San Jose Mercury News

GM shares tumble to 58-year low

General Motors shares today plunged to their lowest level since the opening months of the Korean War, as investors continued to fret that the decline in U.S. vehicle sales may be spreading to the rest of the ...

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors, Business News

Cbs2chicago.com

Woman Assaulted In Hyde Park-Kenwood Building

Oct 9, 2008 5:36 am US/Central CHICAGO Police are investigating after a man with a knife forced his way into a woman's apartment and sexually assaulted her inA an area that isA to numerous University of Chicago ...

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Chicago Metro

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