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Berkeley accelerating access to course materials for disabled students
UC Berkeley is making its vast library collections and course textbooks more readily available to students with visual and other impairments under an agreement reached Tuesday that could set a precedent for universities nationwide. The settlement with...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, University of California, Berkeley, Students, Colleges and Universities
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Did the system fail a soldier?
SHERMAN, Texas — Sgt. John Russell designed his new house here so there would be room for everyone: for him and his wife, Mandy, his wife's parents and his own. There was a doggie door for Louie and Queenie — "the little ones," he called...
Tags: Prosecution, Baghdad (Iraq), Mental Illness, Murder, Iraq
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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: Financial Aid, Museums, George Lucas, Education, Jurassic Park (movie)
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Study: A day of video games tops a year of therapy for dyslexic readers
Playing action video games could help dyslexic children read faster, a new study suggests. Neuroscientists from the University of Padua in Italy tested the reading ability of two groups of 10-year-olds after one group had played action video games and...
Tags: Wii, Gaming, Entertainment, Science and Technology
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Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized
-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...
Tags: YouTube, Fidel Castro, Government, Al Gore, Same-Sex Marriage
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reFramed: In conversation with Ian Ruhter
Framework“I’ve always seen the world differently so I built a camera to share images the way I see them in my mind…growing up I had severe dyslexia and it was always hard to communicate – when I found photography I found my voice.” ... -
Glimpsing the hereafter, or just missing loved ones?
What do you wear to visit a psychic? I pondered the question as I stood in the mirror, practicing my poker face. Would she see through my Uggs to my mismatched socks? Will she know that I dug these jeans from the bottom of my hamper? I'd made an...Tags: Apple iPhone, Television Industry, Long Island
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Joe Wright, Keira Knightley a fearless team on 'Anna Karenina'
Director Joe Wright's vision for the Leo Tolstoy classic "Anna Karenina" has been called "bold," "daring" and "ambitious" — words that could also be used to describe the effect the director and his leading lady, Keira Knightley, have on each other....
Tags: Joe Wright, James Stewart, Atonement (movie), Keira Knightley, Entertainment Events
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies at 86; former New York Times publisher
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the fourth publisher of the New York Times, who made history with his decision to publish the Pentagon Papers and revived the "Good Gray Lady" of print journalism with a radical redesign that set a new standard, has died. He was...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Book, Vietnam War (1955-1975), William Safire, John F. Kennedy
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Henry Hill dies at 69; mob informant was subject of 'GoodFellas'
Henry Hill, the infamous mob informant whose life of crime was chronicled in the film classic "GoodFellas," was the first to admit that he did "a lot of bad things back then."
"I shot at people. I busted a lot of heads, and I buried a lot of bodies,"...Tags: Prosecution, Air France-KLM, Book, Ray Liotta, Organized Crime
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John D. Lowry dies at 79; innovative film-restoration executive
John D. Lowry, an entertainment technology innovator who founded Lowry Digital Images, the renowned movie restoration company in Burbank that worked its magic by returning film classics such as "Casablanca" and "Star Wars" to their pristine state for...Tags: George Lucas, Culture, Snow White (fictional character), Canada, Indiana Jones (fictional character)
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Love, disease and a killing
A series of heavy doors slid open, one by one, at the Pima County Jail. And finally I was sitting with 53-year-old Sanford "Sandy" Garfinkel, who had just been sentenced to 16 years in prison for killing his terminally ill wife by holding a pillow over...Tags: Beef Stroganoff, Health, Prisons, Rubber Products Industry, Alzheimer's Disease
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