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Kristy Curry accepts Alabama job (Updated with Kirby Hocutt statement)
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, TexasTexas Tech women's basketball coach Kristy Curry has accepted the coaching job at Alabama, the Avalanche-Journal learned Saturday. Curry, 46, interviewed with the Crimson Tide earlier this week. Moments after the A-J's initial story was posted online,...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Sports, College Baseball, Texas Tech University , Colorado Avalanche
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Heritage golfer Messana commits to Clemson
For golfer Marisa Messana, the process of finding the perfect college turned out to be as challenging and rewarding as sinking a birdie putt on the final hole to win a tournament. Messana, 17, a junior at American Heritage in Plantation, where she is...
Tags: Sports, LPGA, Boston College, Tulane Green Wave, Awards and Prizes
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Dr. Edward L. "Mac" McDill, Hopkins professor
Edward L. "Mac" McDill, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's sociology department who was also the founding director of the Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, died April 25 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in...
Tags: High Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Social Organizations, Jacksonville State University, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Some colleges tighten restrictions on prescribing ADHD medications
Reporter and PhotographerYou're cut off-- some colleges say abuse of drugs used to treat ADHD is so rampant they'll rarely prescribe it for students, and when they do it's only after extensive analysis by a doctor and a signed contract promising not to share the pills. Most of...Tags: ADHD, Technology, Behavioral Conditions, Adderall (drug), Education
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College-bound seniors celebrated
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Since its inception in 1999, the Imperial County College Going Initiative has steadily seen the number of high school seniors accepted to four-year universities increase. To celebrate this year’s 467 college-bound high school...Tags: Colleges and Universities, High Schools, Teaching and Learning, Schools, California Polytechnic State University
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Tour civil rights sites around the South
ATLANTA - Key events in 1963, from organized protests in Alabama to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, galvanized the civil rights movement that eventually toppled Jim Crow laws in the South. The 50th anniversary of those events is a...Tags: University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Human Interest, Museums, Vegetarian Diet
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Recovery continues 2 years after tornado outbreak
The Montgomery AdvertiserTheresa Forbes will graduate from the University of Alabama School of Law next week, and but her thoughts will be fixed on what happened at 5:13 p.m. April 27, 2011. That's when Tuscaloosa was struck by a powerful EF-4 tornado with winds of up to 190...Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Weather Service, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, Crime, Law and Justice
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LAMP shines: Montgomery magnet named best in U.S.
The Montgomery AdvertiserMontgomery's first magnet school now has been named the nation's best. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High was ranked the No. 1 magnet school as well as the No. 7 high school in the nation in the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report. It was...Tags: High Schools, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Education, Marketing, Awards and Prizes
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Surgeon General to speak at HU commencement in May
The U.S. Surgeon General will give the commencement address at Hampton University's graduation ceremony May 12. Dr. Regina Benjamin will be the university's 143rd commencement speaker and will receive an honorary doctor of science degree at the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Regina Benjamin, Tulane University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Morehouse School of Medicine
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Move to lower mandatory school age faces 'uphill climb'
To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory attendance age from 7 to 6 or...
Tags: Politics, Barbara Flynn Currie, Students, Linda Chapa LaVia, University of Chicago
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Baltimore-born terrorism expert explores 'The Myth of Martyrdom'
Adam Lankford thinks there's an oft-repeated misconception about suicide attackers that isn't merely wrong. It's potentially deadly. Lankford is the Baltimore-born terrorism expert who has just published a book titled "The Myth of Martyrdom: What Really...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Philosophy, Folklore and Mythology, Arts and Culture
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Study finds women who undergo early menopause face increased risk for heart disease and stroke
A recent study has found that females who stop having their periods before age 46 had a higher incidence of heart disease and stroke. Doctors have long suspected that women who undergo early menopause might be at an increased risk for those medical...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Internists, Hospitals and Clinics, Menopause, Health and Safety at School
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