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Body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi pulled from river
It was a mystery that ended in sadness: A body found in the Providence River earlier this week has been identified as missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, Rhode Island officials announced Thursday. The discovery of Tripathi's body closed a...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Times Square, Sports, Social Media
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Reddit's apology, Matthew Keys' firing and lessons from Boston
Matthew Keys, a controversy-plagued deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, tweeted today that he was fired by the news organization. His name has not been associated of late with best journalistic practices. Keys, 26, a one-time web producer...
Tags: Thomson Corporation, Tribune Company, Reddit Inc., Television Industry, Sports
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Boston bombing: Reddit learns how 'witch hunts can start'
The social networking site Reddit found itself in the middle of a terrible situation this week after it fingered a missing Brown student as one of the Boston Marathon bombers. Reddit, for those unfamiliar, is a popular site that consists entirely of...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Twitter, Inc., Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Students
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Ben Affleck to receive honorary doctorate from Brown University
Good Ben Hunting! Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University. Is this life imitating art? The Academy Award-winning producer and philanthropist, 40, is set to receive the honorary degree from the Providence, R.I.-based...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Tougaloo College, Miami Dade College, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment
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Boston bombings: Social media spirals out of control
Over the last few days, thousands of people have taken to the Internet to play Sherlock Holmes. Armed with little more than grainy surveillance camera videos, cellphone photos and live tweets from police scanners, they have flooded the Web with clues,...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Reddit Inc., Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Sports, Social Media
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Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter
LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Nobel Prize Awards, Students, Applied Physics, Physics
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...
Tags: Charity, Biology, University of Cambridge, Employees, Education
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Jacqueline Goodman
Jacqueline Goodman is a criminal defense lawyer based in Orange County, California. She is admitted to the United States Supreme Court and is named on the Wall of Recognition at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. She was the founding...
Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Major League Baseball, New York University
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Who thinks Emma Watson would do the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film?
Emma Watson is the actress who played the darling Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" movies. She has been going to college at an Ivy -- Brown University -- when she hasn't been making movies. When she took a year abroad, she went to no less than...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., David O. Russell, Emma Watson, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner, Lloyd Phillips, Donald F. Hornig
Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner Lead singer and guitarist for Ohio Players Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, 69, lead singer and guitarist for the Ohio Players, a band that fused rock, soul and funk for a string of R&B hits in the 1970s, died Saturday in a Dayton...
Tags: Music Industry, The Tourist (movie), Explosions, Lyndon B. Johnson, Emergency Incidents
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Advice for MFA applicants, from Brown University's Brian Evenson
MFA applicants, I feel your pain. It was not so long ago that I was one of you, sweating the math section of the GRE, trying to figure out the perfect submission length (22.25 pages?), wondering what on Earth I was doing. If only there had been one...
Tags: Authors, Social Media
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Martian craters could hold fossilized web of water, study says
The cracks in Mars’ surface may be the fossilized remains of a web of water, according to new research released Tuesday. The findings, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, may explain a mysterious network of ridges that vein...
Tags: NASA
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