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Yale joins online education platform Coursera
Online college course provider Coursera announced Wednesday that Yale University has joined the growing network of campuses that offer free classes through the organization. Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera said that Yale will offer four courses...Tags: Global Expansion, Colleges and Universities, Financial Markets
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Medical Professionals, Diabetes, Medicaid
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Antronette Yancey dies at 55; advocate of short bursts of exercise
For Dr. Antronette K. Yancey, a UCLA public health professor, exercise could be fun and done in short bursts in the workplace, schools and even places of worship. Her campaign to urge people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives led to...
Tags: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Diseases and Illnesses, Colleges and Universities, Healthy Diet, Northwestern University
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Even after melanoma, some people keep on using tanning beds
You would think that people who were diagnosed with melanoma -- the most deadly form of skin cancer -- would be meticulously careful about using sunscreen, avoiding tanning salons and generally protecting their skin. You would be wrong, researchers said...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Skin Cancer, Human Interest, Sunburn, Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure
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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: Metal and Mineral, Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities, Gold and Precious Material, Teaching and Learning
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Jefferson Mays' fractured personality
While Jefferson Mays was performing in "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" in the fall of 2012 at Hartford Stage, he recalls, his wife kept overhearing variations on the same remark at intermission: "Isn't it wonderful how they got actors who all...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Murder, Hartford Stage
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Redirecting money after a loan is paid off
Dear Liz: I'll be done paying off my car in a couple of months. What's a good strategy for redirecting that money once it's paid off? Should I use the whole amount each month to start saving for my next car, or would I be better off splitting it up and...
Tags: Contracts, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Insurance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist
Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...
Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities, Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Stanford becomes 1st school to raise more than $1 billion in a year
The nation’s top fund-raising institution last year, Stanford University, raised $1.03 billion from donors, the first to raise more than $1 billion in a given year. Out of the nation's top 10 fund-raising institutions, two others were in...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colleges and Universities, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), New York University
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A crucial step toward retirement security for the working class
It's amazing, and depressing, when political compromise functions only to throw obstacles in the way of ideas that bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Today's example: the long, tortuous road to bringing more retirement security to...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace, 401K, Employment Opportunities, Economy, Business and Finance
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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Arts, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Children's Museum, Awards and Prizes
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Mass killings often planned, not spontaneous, experts say
The motive behind the Connecticut elementary school rampage is not known, but behavioral specialists with expertise on mass killings note that such events typically do not occur spontaneously, that the perpetrator has harbored both resentments and...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Medical Specialization, Colleges and Universities, Murder, Suicide
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