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Students who haven't mastered English are casualties of strict system
Time is running out for the kids in Melanie Gathers' English 3 class. The Dr. Phillips High students grew up speaking Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese and Arabic. And they have only one year left to demonstrate mastery on tests given entirely...
Tags: Language, Teachers, Science and Technology, University of Central Florida, Arts and Culture
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Hibbing, Duluth are tangled up in Bob Dylan
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)MINNEAPOLIS If the "Blood on the Tracks Express" train ride or the "Hard Rain in Duluth" benefit concert hasn't made you rush to the North Country this week for Bob Dylan's 72nd birthday, at least give Hibbing and Duluth credit for finally getting excited...Tags: Bob Dylan, Museums, Arts and Culture, Tourism and Leisure, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939)
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Bausch & Lomb's Ista pleads guilty over kickbacks
Reuters(Reuters) - Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million to settle criminal and civil liability, the U.S....Tags: Glaucoma, Bausch & Lomb, Politics, Trials, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
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New York man held captive for month rescued by police
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Police posing as building...Tags: Court Preliminary, Long Island, Trials, New York City, Defendants
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Obama administration says fourth American was killed by U.S. drone
WASHINGTON – A day before President Obama is set to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it had killed four U.S. citizens – one more than previously known – with...Tags: Defense, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Yemen, Washington, DC
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Terrorism, Politics, Barack Obama, Elections
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Anthony Weiner in N.Y. mayor race 2 years after 'sexting' scandal
NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose once-shining political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress two years ago, entered New York's mayoral race Wednesday with promises to make...Tags: Local Elections, Primaries, U.S. Congress, Politics, Bill Thompson
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VOD Spotlight: Side Effects
Channel Guide MagazineSide Effects was shot primarily on location in and around New York City, which director Steven Soderbergh says can be intimidating. “There are so many iconic New York movies. I decided that the important thing was to make the locations organic to... -
Trove of Muppets creator Jim Henson's items headed for Museum of the Moving Image in NYC
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from...Tags: Long Island, Museums, Jim Henson, Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater
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What's in a name? A lot.
Dark clouds — both the real and the metaphorical varieties — cast a pall Saturday over Jim Thorpe's annual birthday celebration of the borough's namesake. "Myself, my brother, my family, we are behind this town 110 percent," declared John...
Tags: High Schools, Schools, Justice System, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Teachers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Diabetes Association, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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DNA of suspect in Maine killing not on gun, affidavit says
Portland Press Herald, MaineDNA evidence found on the gun that police believe was used to kill Margarita Fisenko Scott, whose body was found in a vehicle in a motel parking lot weeks after she died, does not match that of the New York man accused of murdering her. According to a...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Rentals, Firearms, Apartments, Witnesses
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