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Beijing International Screenwriting Competition announces winners
An American woman arrives in China to retrace the steps of her deceased daughter from a video diary the daughter kept of her trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A young flautist travels to Beijing to audition for a conservatory. A seamstress for a...
Tags: Harvard University, Loyola Marymount University, Arizona State University, Travel, Colleges and Universities
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Bionic ear with superhuman potential, hot off the printer
Need a new ear? In the future you may be able to print one out and pop it on. Taking us one step closer to a future in which we are all part human, part machine, scientists at Princeton University have created a pair of high functioning bionic ears made...
Tags: Electronics, Science and Technology
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David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC
David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq, Paula Broadwell, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Army
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Edward Frieman dies at 87; leading figure in American science
Edward A. Frieman, a leading figure in American science for decades as a researcher with wide-ranging interests, a top-level governmental advisor on defense and energy issues, and director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has...
Tags: Teachers, Marine Science, Bodies of Water, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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A rich season for playwright Richard Greenberg
NEW YORK — "I'm too tired to be anxious," said playwright Richard Greenberg, looking worn out with anxiety as he settled into a booth at a Chelsea diner. This neighborhood canteen, dubbed his "office" by the late theatrical agent Helen Merrill, is...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Judaism, Julia Roberts, Arts and Culture, Julianne Moore
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Review: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' considers 9/11 effects
If there ever was a time to see "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," that time is here and now. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, with even President Obama asking, "Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and...
Tags: Riz Ahmed, Movies, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports, Entertainment
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...Tags: Tampa, Immigration, Colleges and Universities, City University of New York, Migration
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'Jurassic Park' paleontologist offers advice on ways of dinosaurs
The blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie "Jurassic Park," being re-released in 3-D on April 5, wouldn't be the same place without paleontologist Jack Horner. In addition to advising the production on scientific matters, Horner provided inspiration for the...
Tags: Museums, Steven Spielberg, Terra Nova (tv program), Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture
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Movie review: 'Admission' gets a passing grade
A fraught romantic comedy shot through with anxiety about getting your child into an Ivy League school or else, "Admission" stars Tina Fey as a Princeton University admissions officer with a secret. Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New...
Tags: Michael Sheen, Admission (movie), Colleges and Universities, Tina Fey, Entertainment
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With 'The Croods' in top spot, 'Olympus' will fall to No. 2
"The Croods" could club its way to box-office success this weekend, as the animated caveman movie looks certain to end up No. 1. The 3-D DreamWorks Animation film is likely to open with a solid $40 million, according to those who have seen pre-release...
Tags: Steve Carell, Roland Emmerich, Tina Fey, U.S. Secret Service, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan
Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...
Tags: Islam, Lahore (Pakistan), Riz Ahmed, Religion and Belief, Poetry
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Short of voters, Republicans gerrymander their way back to power
Republicans have become a devious party that believes if you cannot win by following fair rules, there is nothing wrong with rigging the game. To their constitutionally endorsed advantage in the Senate, they have added a manipulated advantage in the House...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, Elections, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
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