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Its Name is Earl

6 Q's About the News | Where along the East Coast is Hurricane Earl expected to make an impact?
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Teaching the Heat Wave: Games, Lessons and More

To mark the record-breaking heat on the East Coast this week, we offer a heat-wave fill-in, a list of lessons and student crosswords on weather and a Student Opinion question inviting funny or serious responses to the question, "Are There Any Benefits to a Heat Wave?"
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Teaching the Heat Wave: Games, Lessons and More

To mark the record-breaking heat on the East Coast this week, we offer a heat-wave fill-in, a list of lessons and student crosswords on weather and a Student Opinion question inviting funny or serious responses to the question, "Are There Any Benefits to a Heat Wave?"
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FGCU Faculty Impasse Resolved, Raises Predicated on 15 Percent Tuition Hike

After spending more than a year trying to settle faculty contracts, both sides of Florida Gulf Coast University’s bargaining unit have reached a tentative agreement just shy of a deadline to enter impasse hearings.
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Tulane’s Satellite Campus Raises Questions

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College President Willis Lott is finding that not all out-of-state institutions face the same scrutiny when they open campuses in Mississippi.
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Williams College Quits Club Scene

Williams College is joining the club of elite East Coast colleges that have given up offering stand-alone private clubhouses for alumni in New York City.
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Scholastic partners with Save the Children on education fund for Haiti

The idea came to Karen Proctor while she was walking amidst the devastation on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. Richard L. Hayes , dean of the College of Education at the University of Southern Alabama, said to her, "People have to do what they do best."
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Our Neighbors: Richmond weightlifter notches his name in the record books

FREDDY BOZA, a junior at De Anza High School in Richmond, has again notched his name in the weightlifting record books, setting new marks in two West Coast powerlifting meets.
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Supervisor Wants USM Back at Gautier

Jackson County supervisors discussed asking USM to come back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College campus in Gautier, since the state university had a hand in stopping an out-of-state university from locating there.
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In college basketball, Pac-10 losses could be Big West’s gain – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times In college basketball, Pac-10 losses could be Big West's gain Los Angeles Times Long overshadowed on the Left Coast and particularly in the Southland, the Big West is set to begin its conference tournament with a chance to steal the ... and more
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