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10 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

Richard Branson To Class Of 2013: Create Your Own Opportunities

Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, told members of the Class of 2013 to "be ambitious." "Be ambitious.

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Related Topix: Richard Branson, Brown University, Harvard University, University of Missouri, Reed College

14 hrs ago | Overclockers Club

New Magnetic Field Observed

Magnets are the sums of their parts, specifically electrons, as the negatively charged particles have their own small magnetic fields that can align and combine to create the larger ones we are familiar with.

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18 hrs ago | UDaily

Blue Hens James, Idris to compete at NCAA track and field regionals

University of Delaware women's outdoor track & field standouts Latoya James and Amira Idris have extended their seasons for at least one more week as both will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Regional Championship this week at North Carolina A&T University.

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Related Topix: Jamaica, Stockholm, NJ, University of Oregon, Eastern College

20 hrs ago | UnionvilleTimes.com

New teacher deal gets board, union OK

With little in the way of discussion and even less ceremony, the Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education voted 7-2 Monday night to approve a new two-year contract with the the district's teachers.

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Related Topix: Chadds Ford, PA

Yesterday | The Dirt

Preserving Nigeria's Evil Forests

Throughout history, cultures around the world have created the concept of the evil forest, a dark, scary place where bad things happen.

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Yesterday | BBC News

AUDIO: US 'now using British-isms'

Speaking to the Today programme's Evan Davis, Ben Yagoda a professor of English at the University of Delaware who writes a blog about British-isms that have entered language in the States, said people use British-isms when they want to sound a "little bit different" or "clever". Dr Lynne Murphy, a reader in linguistics at the University of Sussex ... (more)

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Tue May 21, 2013

Philly.com

The kitten who refused to die

His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Kidney Cancer, Health, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, University of Pennsylvania

Mon May 20, 2013

Data Center Knowledge

Going Off The Grid: Delaware Data Center Will Generate its Own Power

There's a major project brewing in Delaware, with a group called The Data Centers LLC planning a sizeable data center near Newark.

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Related Topix: Newark, DE

Fri May 17, 2013

Patch.com

660 Students Graduate From Oakton Community College

More than 660 students received degrees and certificates at Oakton Community College' s 42nd Annual Commencement, held May 14, at the College's Des Plaines campus.

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Related Topix: Des Plaines, IL, Niles, IL, University of Illinois Chicago, Lake Forest College

Wed May 15, 2013

USA Today

Study: Water pollution from poultry farms overestimated

Federal environmental programs have drastically overestimated the poultry industry's contributions to water pollution, according to a University of Delaware-led study.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Medicine, Nutrition

WBOC-TV Salisbury

UD-led Study: Feds Overestimate Poultry Pollution

A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law

Scientific American

The Strange Beauty of the Sea s Microscopic Plants [Slide Show]

In the June issue of Scientific American, Ronald Martin of the University of Delaware and Antonietta Quigg of Texas A&M University at Galveston explain how increases in the quantity and nutrient content of tiny plants called phytoplankton probably helped power the rise of the modern marine mammals.

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Related Topix: Texas A&M University at Galveston, Offbeat

Tue May 14, 2013

The Reminder

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Kudosa Na'jee Wilson who was recently selected as the 2013 Boys & Girls Clubs of Vineland Youth of the Year.

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Related Topix: Vineland, NJ, Life, Food, Nutrition

The Dirt

Nearly Unknown in the West: Sub-Saharan Africa's Cultural Landscapes

According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye , University of Delaware, "there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn't somehow implicate the Europeans." That statement may be less true given a recent conference on cultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa at Dumbarton Oaks .

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The Review Times

UF names vice president for academic affairs

Darin E. Fields will join the University of Findlay in July as vice president for academic affairs.

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Mon May 13, 2013

The State

Arrest made in stabbing of Delaware quarterback

The Newark Police Department made an arrest Monday in connection with the Sunday morning stabbing of Delaware senior quarterback Trevor Sasek.

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Freshnews

Delaware BioScience Association Celebrates Life Science Accomplishments

The Delaware BioScience Association will host its 2013 Annual Awards Gala on May 22 at the DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, DE.

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Related Topix: Wilmington, DE

Sun May 12, 2013

NBC Philadelphia

Local College Student Stabbed During Fight: Police

Police say a 22-year-old University of Delaware student was arguing with another man Sunday around 1 a.m. in a parking lot on 54 East Delaware Avenue in Newark, Delaware.

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Related Topix: Newark, DE

SFGate

U-Del. student stabbed in parking lot fight

Police say the 22-year-old student was stabbed several times in the chest and abdomen early Sunday morning.

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6 ABC

University of Delaware student stabbed multiple times

The suspect, who fled, is described as a white male, 18 to 22-years-old, 5'11" to 6'00" tall, 185 to 190 pounds.

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