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Saturday May 26 | The Free Dictionary

Christopher Reeve Is Paralyzed

Reeve after the opening night of The Marriage of Figaro at The Circle in the Square Theatre in NYC, 1985 was an American actor, film director , producer, screenwriter and author.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Family, Superman, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Christopher Reeve, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Princeton University, Columbia University

Wed May 23, 2012

Boston.com

Intrigued by ordinary objects

When she organized last fall's "On the Edge" juried exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, artistic director Kris Waldman hoped to generate more diversity in the gallery's offerings.

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Related Topix: Hopkinton, MA, Boston, MA, Photography, Arts, Painting, Natick, MA

Mon May 21, 2012

The Press-Enterprise

REGION: UCR professor wins $640,000 to study love

A UC Riverside philosophy professor and two colleagues are taking on the subjects of love and caring in a study to find how they affect human thoughts and actions.

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Related Topix: UC Riverside, Franklin & Marshall College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

Introducing Wonk Wire

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City.

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Related Topix: us Travel, Travel, Journalism, Chicago Travel, New York, Blog News

Fri May 18, 2012

Science News

Book Review : Book Review: Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can ...

BOOK REVIEW: Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Long reflects on his career as a biologist who uses robots to study fish evolution.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Robots

Thu May 17, 2012

The Jewish News Weekly

Celebrations: Opera singer finds cantorial work a good fit

When Sharon Azrieli-Perez told her father, David Azrieli, one of Israel's biggest real estate moguls, that she wanted to be an opera singer, he told her he'd pay for voice lessons only if she got into Juilliard.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Verdi, Israel, World News, Middle East

Tue May 15, 2012

News Times

Ridgefield's Holmes continues to dominate the track at Vassar College

Vassar College junior track and field star Kelly Holmes -- a 2009 Ridgefield High graduate -- earned the Liberty League Track Performer of the Week award on Monday for the fifth time this season and the third week in a row.

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Mon May 14, 2012

Broadway

Chloe Sevigny to Star in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Abigail/1702 at New York Stage and Film

Chloe Sevigny is set to star in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's previously announced play Abigail/1702 as part of the 2012 season of New York Stage and Film at Vassar College.

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Related Topix: Kids, Drama Movies, Short, Big Love, Boys Don't Cry, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Chloe Sevigny

Bangor Daily News

Millay Celebration to Mark Poet's 1912 "Discovery" in Camden

A summer-long celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent, Millay, pictured here in her early 20s at Vassar College, will mark the 100th anniversary of the "discovery" of the poet at the Whitehall Inn in Camden in 1912.

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Related Topix: Camden, ME, Arts, Poetry, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Rockland, ME

Sat May 12, 2012

Alabama Live

Duke of Windsor rejects claim to English throne; engages American divorcee

From a proclamation issued by Maj. Gen. Butler, Commander of the United States forced in New Orleans, May 1, 1862: "All persons well disposed toward the Government of the United States, who shall renew their oath of allegiance, will receive the safeguard and protection, in their persons and property, of the armies of the United States, the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Georgia

Fri May 11, 2012

The Huffington Post

Lonna Saunders: Birthday Wishes for Betty Daniels: Still Vassar's Cheerleader After 65 Years

Betty Daniels , Candice Bergen , Charlie McCarthy , Edgar Bergen , Elizabeth Daniels , Maria Mitchell , Matthew Vassar , Vassar College , Civil War , Mary Mccarthy , Happy Birthday, Betty Daniels! As she now asks us to call her.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Candice Bergen, Poughkeepsie, NY, Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY

Thu May 10, 2012

Inside Bay Area

Piedmont's Matt Wang and Daniel Cooper win 2012 North Coast Section doubles title in boys tennis

Piedmont High's top-seeded doubles team of Matt Wang and Daniel Cooper claimed the North Coast Section Division I boys tennis championship with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Monte Vista's No.

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MacLeans

REVIEW: Darwin's devices: what evolving robots can teach us...

REVIEW: Darwin's devices: what evolving robots can teach us about the history of life and the future of technology Why are blue marlin faster than tuna? This innocuous question sets Vassar College biologist Long off on a meandering investigation through evolution, robotics and, eventually, the future of warfare.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology

Sat May 05, 2012

Examiner.com

Grace Hopper was known as the grandmother of the computer age

New York City was the place, December 9, 1906 the date when the future of the computer age arrived.A It was on this day future mathematics genius "Amazing" Grace Murray Hopper was born.

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Related Topix: Computers, Yale University, New York University, US Military, US Navy, Harvard University

Thu May 03, 2012

Baltimore Jewish Times

Andrew Zimmerna s Bizarre Food Journeys

Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern" and "Bizarre Foods America," is the main draw at the third annual Foodie Experience at the Hippodrome Theatre on Saturday, May 12.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Bizarre Foods, Entertainment, Television, us Travel, New York City Travel, Travel, Alcoholism, Health, Medicine

Patch.com

ACCESS Honors Americans of the Year at Annual Dinner

AmbassadorsA Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt and Edward M. Gabriel accepted awards as 2012 Americans of the Year on Saturday at the largest Arab American dinner in the nation.

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Related Topix: Tennessee

Wed May 02, 2012

Connect.educause.edu

Don't Turn Your Admissions Cycle into the Season of Dread

Every year, it seems, one or more institutions raise students' hopes of admission only to dash them with erroneous acceptance announcements.

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Related Topix: Computers

The Groton Line

America Eats its Young: The Cause and Effects of Social Sin in the 21st Century

GROTON, Ma.-The public is welcome to attend Groton School's Percy and Eben Pyne Chapel Lecture, presented by Dr.

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Related Topix: Groton, MA, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Temple University

Tue May 01, 2012

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire

Obama Has Edge in North Carolina

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City.

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Related Topix: us Travel, Travel, Journalism, Chicago Travel, New York, Blog News

News Times

Maestra Howlett to close FCC's 49th season with 'Peace & Joy' concert

Christine R. Howlett, director of choral activities at Vassar College, will conduct the Fairfield County Chorale at its season finale Saturday, May 5, in Norwalk.

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Related Topix: Fairfield County, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York University, Classical, Bach, J.S. Bach, Music, Entertainment

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