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Special Report: The Rise and Fall of China's Sun King
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19.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| By Charlie Zhu and Bill Powell HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, listed the people who had been important in his rise to fame and riches. Two were of particular note: Yang Weize and Wang Rong, senior Communist Party officials from the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. A decade earlier, Shi had been research director of a solar energy firm, a spin-off from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he attended graduate school. ... ... |
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Obama Visit Shines Spotlight On Historically Black Colleges And Universities
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19.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| ATLANTA — When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges... |
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Suspected PayPal Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison
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19.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old.... |
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Owner of St. Paul institution Bonnie's Cafe dies at 69
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19.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: News |
| Bonnie Roell often said a small prayer over the meals she served to customers at her St. Paul cafe. |
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How Children Transformed America
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19.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
“Daddy,” the boy said, “I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished for that, I'll just have to take the punishment. For, you see, I'm not doing this only because I want to be free. I'm doing it also because I want freedom for you and Mama, and I want it to come before you die.” read more |
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CTU teachers, parents march to protest closings
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19.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| CTU teachers, parents march to protest closings |
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Ben Bernanke To Grads: You Will Have To Reinvent Yourself
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18.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to... |
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BlackRock, a Shareholding Giant, Is Quietly Stirring
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18.5.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| BlackRock, a Shareholding Giant, Is Quietly Stirring |
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Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings
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18.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
| Chicago Teachers are taking a stand once again in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools in low income Chicago communities—this time with a three day march for "education justice."
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U District Street Fair | Community Corner
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18.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Community events for the weekend of May 18-19, 2013, include the University District Street Fair, Armed Forces Day Celebration and Greenwood Garage Sale Day. |
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Tank-top protest repeats a second day at Greeley high school
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18.5.2013 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| One day after 10 boys wore tank tops to Greeley West High School in protest of a dress code, 30 boys repeated the effort Friday. |
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18.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| Durango receives recognition in report Durango was featured in a report highlighting promising city efforts to improve the lives of children, youths and families in communities with populations below 75,000.Published by the National League of Cities, x201cMunicipal Leadership for Children and Families in Small and Mid-Sized... |
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American Pastor Fasts In Solidarity With Guantanamo Inmates
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18.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Jerry Campbell Religion News Service CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who... |
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Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
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18.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Karin Laub The Associated Press
Published May 17, 2013 10:12PM MDT
Beirut • About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year ago. The young man, who had been providing aid to Syrians displaced by the country’s civil war, was never heard from again. His family was told by former prisoners that he ended up in one of the torture dungeons of President Bashar Assad’s regime. They don’t ... ... |
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Stanford bets on new program to encourage walking, biking
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18.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Local News |
| Stanford University is betting that the allure of online gambling will get more of its staff and faculty to walk or bike to work and even begin holding some meetings on campus pathways. |
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Wed Your Rapist? Indian Women on Trial
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18.5.2013 |
Wall St. Journal: World |
| As India soul searches after a spate of horrifying sexual assaults, prominent lawyers, women's advocates and even judges say that sexist views among some judges thwart justice. |
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Marian Wright Edelman: How Children Transformed America
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18.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| “Daddy,” the boy said, “I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will... |
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Living Close To Major Road Could Be Bad For Your Kidneys
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| People who live close to a major road may have less healthy kidneys than people who live farther away, according to a new study. Researchers... |
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How Criminology Might Help Fight Poaching
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18.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Douglas Main, LiveScience Staff Writer: Newark, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the... |
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University of Utah geologist inspires name of new mineral
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18.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 17, 2013 12:58PM MDT
Barbara Nash has spent her career studying rocks, but she never thought one would bear her name. “This is a bit of a pleasant surprise,” said Nash, a geology and geophysics professor at the University of Utah. The mineral, nashite, is unique even among its class: Rather than brilliant orange like other decavanadates, it’s a translucent, streaked bluish-green. Decavanadates are formed when oxygen in air reacts with vanadium ore bodies near the surface in old, damp mines. They’re found in Colora... ... |
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