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Caltech's Derek Kearney named conference baseball player of the week
A weekend’s worth of national attention brought yet another accolade for the Caltech University baseball team. Sophomore pitcher/outfielder Derek Kearney was named Wednesday afternoon the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Male...Tags: Sports, Baseball, College Baseball, ESPN (tv network), The New York Times
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Agriculture, Graduation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science
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Patron column about women one big stereotype
This is in response to Rachel Patron's May 18 column, "Attitudes toward women change, but process is slow:" I am a Jewish woman, a wife, mother and grandmother. I am also a licensed clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. I did not grow up orthodox; I am...Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Judaism
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Paperless public library to open in Texas
A groundbreaking paperless public library system will open in Texas this year, the BBC reports. Bexar County's $1.5-million BiblioTech project will open its first library branch without a single print book. Instead, the BiblioTech library will...Tags: Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Libraries, BBC
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Panicked gun buying and the NRA
I understand that there are about 310 million people living in the United States, and private citizens here own about 300 million firearms. If these figures are even roughly correct, then the gun industry faces the challenge of selling into a saturated...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Radio, Entertainment
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'Seduced and Abandoned' with Alec Baldwin at Cannes
Last year at the Cannes Film Festival, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback ran around for 11 days making a movie about two guys (themselves; it’s a documentary) scrambling to line up financing for a different movie, a sex-soaked tale of a right-...
Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Steven Spielberg, Media Industry
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Asleep at the wheel
WASHINGTON — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, Taxation, The Associated Press, Washington, DC
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L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood could be election bellwether
It's a small swath of Los Angeles, near the city's heart, that hasn't received much attention from the mayoral candidates. But a Times analysis shows that a 2.8-square-mile, Mid-Wilshire neighborhood has had an unmatched record of picking mayors in both...
Tags: Voting, Restaurants, Michael Bloomberg, Lifestyle and Leisure, Magic Johnson
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Go Pick: Garrison Keillor brings Midwest to Lehigh
Journey to Lake Wobegon with Garrison Keillor when he returns to Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University Sunday, May 19 to share his funny stories about growing up in the American Midwest. Keillor is host of the long-running NPR radio show "A...
Tags: Radio, Lehigh University, Entertainment
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Nellie McKay, quirky songstress, to perform in Hampton with string quartet
A Sunday story from my colleague David Nicholson included a nugget of exciting information. Nellie McKay, a piano-playing songwriter known for witty, irreverent tunes, will play The American Theatre in Hampton Nov. 1. Nicholson's story about the 2013-14...
Tags: The American Theatre, Music Industry, Tameka Cottle, Music, Entertainment
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Interior Department Releases Draft Rules on 'Fracking'
Channel 2 NewsInterior Secretary Sally Jewell announced new draft rules governing hydraulic fracturing during oil drilling on federal and Indian lands Thursday, calling them part of a pro-energy Obama administration policy. The new rules, establishing safety...Tags: Petroleum Industry, U.S. Department of the Interior, Interior Policy, Politics, Land Resources
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All Together Now at Howard library branches
Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia. 410-313-7800. •All Together Now. Saturdays, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. All ages; 30 minutes. •English Conversation Club. Mondays, 10 a.m.; and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Practice speaking and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Clubs and Associations, Science and Technology, Libraries
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