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For defibrillators to save lives, people have to use them
Chances are, if you’re out and about, you’ll pass by an automated external defibrillator, or AED. The machines, which check the heart's rhythm and can deliver a shock to restore the heartbeat to normal, are scattered about public places so...
Tags: Medical Research, Heart Failure, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at School
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Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses
In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.
Harvard and MIT are each...Tags: Education, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Science and Technology
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Supper surfing's goal: Bring strangers together over food
You live in a large and diverse city. You love the idea of its many worlds.
But you rarely leave your own neighborhood.
And your friends are more or less like you.
How do you meet those who aren't? How do you breach your own borders?
Marissa Engel,...Tags: Craigslist, Inc., Arts and Culture, Criminals, Colleges and Universities, Philippines
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Obama emphasizes new aspects of life story
WASHINGTON — There were no silver spoons, but lots of school loans. Grandmother worked her way up the ranks at the bank. Later, it took two incomes to pay the condo mortgage and the bills.
If all this doesn't sound familiar, it soon will.
As he...Tags: Republican Party, Education, Politics, Finance, Mitt Romney
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With Tugg, people can pick movies to show at local theaters
Nearly 400 people crammed into an auditorium at the Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood & Highland shopping center to watch "One Day on Earth," a documentary made by thousands of volunteer filmmakers around the world to promote awareness about climate...Tags: Entertainment Events, Documentary (genre), Social Media, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Rocky (movie)
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Henry S. Ruth Jr. dies at 80; Watergate special prosecutor
Henry S. Ruth Jr., who served a year as Watergate special prosecutor after Archibald Cox was fired and Leon Jaworski resigned, died in Tucson on March 16 after a stroke, his wife, Deborah Mathieu, said. He was 80.
Ruth investigated organized crime for...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Richard Nixon, White House, Organized Crime
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Keeping tabs: Cody Thomson
Varsity Times InsiderPitcher Cody Thomson, a 2010 graduate of Thousand Oaks, is second in the Ivy League with a 2.53 ERA for the University of Pennsylvania after throwing a seven-inning shutout against Harvard on Sunday. -- Eric Sondheimer... -
Raise a glass of wine to resveratrol
Drinkers the world over have been thrilled by the notion that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, might be some kind of anti-aging powerhouse.
The supposed wonder substance can make perilously chubby lab rats live as long as their slim...Tags: Medical Research, Placebo, Cancer, Albert Einstein, Wines
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PASSINGS: Dick Harter, Minoru Mori, Michael Hossack
Dick Harter
Former Oregon Ducks coach
Dick Harter, 81, the University of Oregon men's basketball coach whose Ducks team ended UCLA's 98-game home winning streak in 1976, died Monday at a South Carolina hospital, according to Island Funeral Home in...Tags: Obituaries, Companies and Corporations, College Sports, Basketball, Real Estate Buyers
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Bon Appetit cafes to forgo pigs housed in cramped cages
Animal rights activists are winning ever more concessions from major companies on the issue of cramped cages for pigs -- this time from cafe company Bon Appetit Management.
Bon Appetit, which operates more than 400 cafes in 31 states -- including on...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Smithfield, The Getty, Hormel Foods Corporation
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A private-equity president: Be afraid [Blowback]
Opinion L.A.Romney sees America as an under-performing asset. He wants to cut the fat out of the government and set a strategic course that will enhance its value and reinvigorate its shareholders.... -
Huntington picks Kevin Salatino to head its art collections
Culture MonsterThe Huntington Library has named Kevin Salatino as its next director of art collections. Now the director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, he previously worked in L.A. from 1991 to 2009, as a curator of graphic arts at both the...
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