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24 min ago | GPB.org

UGA To Offer Benefits To Domestic Partners

University of Georgia officials have announced the school will extend some benefits to domestic partners similar to what married couples receive.

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2 hrs ago | Yes! Magazine

Georgia Professors Teach Undocumented Students-for Free

Undocumented young people in Georgia are fighting for access to higher education with support from the ACLU and a group of professors who have volunteered to teach college-level courses for free.

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Related Topix: ACLU, Immigration Reform

Mon May 20, 2013

Motor Trend

Meet the Microbe That Might Soon Munch CO2 to Make Bio-Butanol

I'm starting to lose hope for cheap, mass-produced cellulosic bio-fuels. It could be those nasty lignins just can't be converted into sugars and then into alcohols economically.

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Related Topix: Autos

Broadcasting & Cable

Where to Be, What to Watch: Week of May 20-May 26

B&C/Multichannel News' TV in a Multiplatform World As television content moves further away from the TV set, the industry has a lot to figure out when itcomes to multiplatform viewing.

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Related Topix: Astoria, NY

Ledger-Enquirer.com

Perno out as Georgia’s baseball coach

After 12 years running the program and nearly 400 wins, David Perno is out as Georgia’s baseball head coach as athletics director Greg McGarity announced Monday that Perno had resigned his post.

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Related Topix: Georgia

LaGrange Daily News

LaGrange High School valedictorian: Jared Boggs

Boggs will attend University of Georgia in the fall, where he is undecided, but may major in Chinese with double minor in Korean and chemistry.

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Related Topix: Japanese-American, Asian-American

American Forests

Greener Green Energy

Now, here's a scientific study Popeye would really go for: Researchers at the University of Georgia have captured energy from spinach, according to a new study published in Energy & Environmental Science .

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

Athens Banner-Herald

Drought eases, but water conservation now a fixture

The drought that withered Athens and much of Georgia for the past couple of years has passed.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Georgia, Athens, GA, Atlanta, GA

Sun May 19, 2013

Athens Banner-Herald

Prince Avenue, 'a jewel,' and subject of planning look

IF YOU GO What: Prince Avenue zoning analysis public meeting Where: UGA Health Science Campus, George Hall When: 7 p.m. Monday AT A GLANCE Commercial-Neighborhood Established is a proposed new zone intended to reinforce existing character along Prince Avenue while supporting future, "context-sensitive" developments.

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Related Topix: Athens, GA

Ledger-Enquirer.com

Job Spotlight: Lucas Brown, raft guide and operations manager at...

Education: 2006 graduate of Cedartown High School, Cedartown, Ga.; received bachelor’s degree in business administration, majors in finance and economics, from University of Georgia, 2010 Family: Single; brother, Zachary, 21, and his parents, mother, Teresa Huckaby, a middle school teacher in Cedartown, Ga., and father, Mike Brown, who lives ... (more)

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Related Topix: Cedartown, GA

CBS Local

Father and Son Graduate From Morehouse

According to a Morehouse press release, when President Barack Obama speaks, this will be the very first time a "sitting President has given a May commencement address in Georgia, and the first time in three-quarters of a century that one has delivered any commencement speech in Georgia." The release says that Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a summer ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Morehouse College

Patch.com

AdvancED President to Give Druid Hills High's Commencement Address

Mark Elgart, president of AdvancED, has been confirmed to give the commencement address at Druid Hills High School's graduation ceremony , an ajc.com article reports.

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Related Topix: Avondale Estates, GA, Pomona College

Sat May 18, 2013

Psychology Today

That Elusive Birth Order Effect and What it Means for You

Only child, first-born, last-born, or somewhere in between. Where do you fit into the birth order of your family? Perhaps you've come to believe the myths both in your family and in psychology as a whole that your character, values, achievement strivings, and life success are determined by the family position that fate, and your parents , awarded ... (more)

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science

Patch.com

Mill Creek High School Valedictorian to Study Physics, Salutatorian Is Harvard-Bound

Gwinnett County Public Schools has announced the 2013 valedictorian and salutatorian for Mill Creek High School .

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Related Topix: Gwinnett County, GA, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University

Tifton Gazette

Risk assessment website to help tomato growers

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus has been a chronic threat to tomato production in South Georgia since the late 1990s.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Rome News

Rome High valedictorian plans to serve others in life

After using her hands to serve others throughout her four years at Rome High School , Juhi Varshney has decided to let service dictate her years to come.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Georgia Tech, Rome, GA

Rome News

Rome High valedictorian plans to serve others in life

Juhi Varshney said, "I really want to go into medicine. They've also got a really great social scene, and that's something I want to be a part of." After using her hands to serve others throughout her four years at Rome High School , Juhi Varshney has decided to let service dictate her years to come.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Georgia Tech, Rome, GA

Fri May 17, 2013

Jacksonville Daily News

Sheegog named Small Business Person of 2013

Sheegog, a Jacksonville High School graduate who has a degree from N.C. State University and a doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia, returned to Jacksonville in 1982 to open Onslow Animal Hospital on Doris Avenue.

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Related Topix: Jacksonville, NC

Patch.com

10 Ways to Discourage Pests in Richfield

Eating and playing outdoors this time of year are two of life's great pleasures.

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Related Topix: tick, Health, Entomology, Science, Athens, GA, West Nile Virus

PhysOrg Weblog

Stroke patients respond similarly to after-stroke care, despite age difference

Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

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Related Topix: Health Care Policy, Health, Depression