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"Dangerous World of Butterflies": A threatened universe of dazzling creatures Seattle Times | "The Dangerous World of Butterflies - The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors and Conservationists" | by Peter Laufer | Lyons Press, 271 pp., $24.95 | Award-winning journalist and radio host Peter Laufer has tackled many sobering subjects - war and neo-Nazism, to name two. One evening af...
MSU students observe tropical medicine in DR The Examiner Comments EAST LANSING, Mich. (Map, News) - Ali Daneshvar doesn't have his medical degree, but that didn't matter to the people he brought medicine to in a refugee camp in the Dominican Republic. | "It was basically a garbage dump with a bunch of huts with roofs made of tin," the Michigan State Unive...
Argentina: Swine Flu's Spread Leads to School Closings The New York Times | Authorities in Buenos Aires and the surrounding province announced Tuesday that they were canceling classes for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to try to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of swine flu that has killed at least 35 people loca...
Seminar gives applicants peek into law school The Business Review | To help prospective law school applicants know more about what getting a law degree is like, the and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions are teaming up. | On July 15, the two plan to hold a free Law School Insider Seminar from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. | Organi...
College of Santa Fe’s challenges illustrate perils of ambitious expansion The Business Review Media | It’s a tense time on the quiet campus of the College of Santa Fe. | After declining enrollment and a heavy debt load threatened to shut it permanently, the school is in limbo. A state task force recommended in May that the city of Santa...
Student protesters in Haiti burn UN police car Syracuse | (AP) - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Student demonstrators have attacked and burned a U.N. police vehicle in Haiti amid a rise in violent protests ahead of weekend elections in the troubled country. | Two U.N. police officers were in the vehicle when stu...
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Mexico's schools cleaned, ready to resume classes The Miami Herald | MEXICO CITY -- Scoured and disinfected, most of Mexico's primary schools and kindergartens stood ready to welcome back millions of students Monday after a nationwide shutdown ord...
Mexico Schools Reopen After Flu Shutdown Wall Street Journal | Associated Press | MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's high schools and universities opened for the first time in two weeks Thursday as the country's top health official insisted the A/H1N1 ...
Millions of kids begin returning to Mexico schools The Guardian | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Associated Press Writer= SAN MIGUEL TOPILEJO, Mexico (AP) â As if marshaling for war, Mexico's government mobilized thousands of education officials and p...
MSU students observe tropical medicine in DR The Examiner Comments EAST LANSING, Mich. (Map, News) - Ali Daneshvar doesn't have his medical degree, but that didn't matter to the people he brought medicine to in a refugee camp in the Dominican Republic. | "It was basically a garbage dump with a bunch of huts...
UNM med school conflict-of-interest policies rank well The Business Review | The School of Medicine performed well in a recent evaluation of conflict-of-interest policies at academic medical centers around the nation. | In an evaluation of 151 U.S. medical schools conducted by the American Medical Student Association, the U...
Ousted Honduran leader mulls return after OAS ruling The Star | TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried to rally support to fly home after the Organization of American States suspended the country because its caretaker government refused to reinstate him. Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya waves upon his arrival at Comalapa international airport, in San Salvador July 2, 200...
Arts education would provide right balance The Columbus Dispatch | Beginning today, Arts & Life | presents a quarterly guest | column by a member of the | central Ohio arts community. | Sure, the American economy needs to pick up steam -- but we need more than STEM. | The one-dimensional education model that favors science, technology, engineering and math neglects a crucial component to help American youth ...
