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4/29/11
TechNews for the week: April 29; April 27; April 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Pakistan army: We have broken terrorists' backbone; Pakistan Urged Afghanistan to Distance Itself From the West; Key Afghan aid programs delayed;
Yemeni president agrees to step down in 30 days; Heavy fighting rages in Libyan city of Misrata;
Syria escalates deadly crackdown; 3 prominent Syrians resign in protest against deadly crackdown;
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11;
More than 200 people on US terror watch list were able to legally buy firearms in 2010;
Obama picks Petraeus for CIA Director, Panetta for Defense Secretary; A National Strategic Narrative; The Y Article;
GOP faces tough questions on Medicare; Lobbying efforts persist to roll back health-care, financial regulation bills;
Treasury quietly plans for failure to raise debt ceiling;
States’ GOP majorities made mark on wide range of issues; Vermont Exercising Option to Balance the Budget;
Will Transcripters Replace Birthers? Conservative Media Attack After Release Of Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate; ‘Birthers’ unlikely appeased ;
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More Buildings Aim To Become Net Zero Water Users;
U Missouri Videos Edited by Conservatives To Misrepresent Class Try to embarrass Unions; 'Ripped' videos bring Threats to Instructors;
Farewell, Kindle. Buh-Bye, iPad: the new 'transformer' tablet;
Finance and Economics
IMF: Age of America Nears End; Federal Reserve to end Treasury bond-buying program, keeps interest rates near zero;
First offshore yuan IPO debuts in Hong Kong as Beijing seeks to promote currency's use abroad;
Patient ratings to affect Medicare payments to hospitals;
NY jury begins deciding fate of one-time billionaire charged in Galleon insider trading case;
Education:
Census Bureau Finds Increasing Share of Adults Have College Degrees; Working Women Better Educated Than Working Men;
Great colleges and a senseless policy; Report: Assets in 529 Plans Hit Record High;
UNC-Greensboro Gambles on Nanotechnology With State Money; Boston Asks Universities and Other Nonprofits to Pay More in Lieu of Taxes;
Commissioner says Texas Could Offer a Stripped-Down Degree for Just $10,000; U Nebraska-Lincoln Considers Higher Tuition For Engineering Students;
At Michigan 10 Years to Tenure; Southern Illinois-Carbondale Moves to Subject Tenured Professors to Layoffs; Louisiana Regents Eliminate 109 Degree Programs;
Nevada proposes changes to allow scuttling programs and in laying off tenured faculty members; College groups split on rescinding state approval rule;
Should Teaching Be Outsourced? Failing British Universities Could Be Taken Over by For-Profit Companies;
Drake U. Hit With $600,000 Embezzlement; Carnegie Mellon U. Gets $40-Million Returned From Investment Swindle;
Worried About Loss of Academic Influence, CIO Resigns at Urbana-Champaign;
U Denver Library has No Room for Books; Kentucky Professors Oppose $3.1M Loan for Scoreboard;
Universities Consider Restricting Wireless Access To Help Students Focus; Social Web Sites Are Popular Sources for Student Plagiarists;
Race, Athletes and the Brigham Young Honor Code; Athletes receive perks unavailable to other students;
Give the NCAA Time to Show Progress on Eligibility Standards; Using Deception to Comply With Title IX; colleges play number games;
NCAA Wants More Oversight of Bowl Games; gives Ohio State football program notice of allegations;
4/22/11
TechNews for the week: April 22; April 20; April 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.S. in a bind over Syria options; Syrian Leader Will Lift Emergency Law; pushes to end isolation; Syrian security forces fire on protesters; U.S. aided Syrian opposition ;
Libya: Gaddafi attack intensifies in Misrata; Gaddafi’s son remains defiant; British advisers to aid Libyan rebels; rebels reclaim Misurata city center, credit NATO airstrikes;
Experienced U.S. General in Afgan leaves for a stateside post;
WikiLeaks Cable about Chinese Hacking of U.S. Networks;
S&P lowers its outlook on U.S. debt; Swedish central bank lifts key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1.75 pct;
Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector: Investigate Bush team for war crimes;
Republicans want 9-11 first responders to be checked on FBI terror list;
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) to resign;
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The Unintended Consequences of Common Productivity Tactics;
Are you smarter than a football player? ;
Finance and Economics
How the Wall Street Journal Distorts the Truth About Taxes; Tax records: Save them or shred them?; Retirees, others sue banks over ATM fees;
Speculation on the futures market, rather than supply and demand, is driving up oil, food prices;
Ethical Standards for Economists: The 'Inside Job' Effect;
Federal Circuit to Consider Akamai’s Patent Dispute;
The American military’s helicopter problem;
Education:
Job Picture Improving For Recent Graduates, but Youths Without Higher Education Face Tougher Jobs Picture;
As preparation for life, students give colleges good grades but high schools fall short;
Business Educators Struggle to Put Students to Work; AACSB want to know what Business students have learned; Mastering Business, Quickly;
For-Profits’ Dubious Use of "Wonderlic test" as Entrance Exams; Education Secretary Says Career and Technical Education Must Prove Its Value;
Public Colleges in Georgia and Wisconsin Opt Out of Review of Teacher-Prep Programs;
'Substantive' Errors in Grad Rankings; National Research Council Unveils Revised Doctoral Rankings;
Nature: science Ph.D.s needs to be either reformed or shut down;
UNC takes Stab at Deflating Grades; Tell Your Students That if They Cheat, God Will Smite Them; Who Decides on Transfer Credit?
E-Mails Show Texas Governor Pushed Universities to Adopt Businessman’s Ideas; Controversial Adviser to U. Texas Regents Says He's Been Fired;
Flathead Valley Community College Board challenged by 'Tea Party'; Republican Lawmaker is Next Chancellor of U. System of Georgia;
President of Minnesota State U-Mankato Rejects Fee Increase and Cuts 3 Sports; Sacramento State Police oust students protesting budget cuts and tuition hikes;
Challenging the Presentation Paradigm with the 1/1/5 Rule; Colleges Rehab Their Web Sites for Major Payoffs;
Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Guns on Campus Thoroughfares; Connecticut Bill Removes Faculty Members' Collective-Bargaining Rights;
The NCAA and the Athletes It Fails; Study: Many Athletes Unknowingly Sign Away Rights to Profit From Their Images;
The Latest Must-Have in College Football: a Statue;
4/15/11
TechNews for the week: April 15; April 13; April 11;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Gaddafi accepts African Union’s road map for peace; plan fails to halt Libya fighting; Covert regrouping in Tripoli against Gaddafi;
Rebels push closer to government-held oil port in eastern Libya; New battles in Libya, France urges NATO to do more;
War pulls apart Afghan families; Pakistan warns CIA of new limits; Predator drone may have killed US troops;
Washington's Selective support for Mideast democracy?; Europe's Cold War neutrals now taking sides, timidly, as they redefine security policy;
China reports its first quarterly trade deficit since 2004 as global commodity prices surge;
Icelanders reject debt repayment plan; Moody's cuts Ireland's credit rating to 1 grade above junk;
Emerging economies warn of financial volatility, back study of alternatives to the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency;
Congress passes 2011 funding deal to keep government running through late September; CBO report reduces initial impact of budget deal;
House plan slices $6 trillion in spending; Senate Republicans vow to block non-budget bills; No-tax-hike pledge creates Republican rift;
How Obama plans to slash $4T from debt; Congressional pensions fall on high end of scale;
Appeals court upholds Justice Department challenge of Ariz. immigration law;
CIA’s brain drain: top officials have moved to private sector;
Consumer product safety database to continue;
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US Civil War 150th anniversary: How US remains divided; Looking At The Civil War 150 Years Later; Time Did the Civil War start in SC?
Privacy 'bill of rights' exempts government agencies;
Finance and Economics
A taxpayer receipt: where your tax dollars go; In Financial Crisis, Why No Prosecutions of Top Figures;
Republicans criticized Democratic Medicare cuts last fall; now include them in their budget;
HHS Proposes Accountable Care Organization Rules; Pushes Private Sector To Fix Healthcare Problems; digital illitercy makes it worse;
Walker Digital Files 15 Patent Suits Against Tech Firms;
House votes to repeal regs on Internet access;
Education:
Study says Big Gap Exists Between College Seniors' Real and Perceived Learning; Exemplary schools to emulate?
Pay Differences By Discipline Causes "Morale Problem"; Faculty Salaries by Institution Type, Discipline;
Engineering Majors Continue To Offer Highest Salaries; 'Intern Nation': Earning nothing and earning little; The origin of Bad Writing ;
Student Loan Debt Outpaces Credit Card Debt; At One Community College, Students Will Need a Budget to Get a Loan;
2 Massachusetts Colleges Embroiled in Town-Gown Disputes Over Taxes; Brookdale Community College considers lawsuit against Ex-president;
Texas Governor's solution for Higher Education; Lambuth U. Announces That It Will Close;
Colorado Regents Vote to Shutter Boulder Journalism School; U Nebraska Cuts Engineering Program among others;
La Salle U. Suspends Professor Who Hired Strippers for Seminar;
Professors Urge U.S. Antitrust Review of Football Bowl System; Conference to Examine Race Issues in College Sports;
Former U. of San Diego Basketball Players and Coach Are Indicted in Bribery Scandal;
Stop Lowering the Bar for College Athletes;
Berkeley Will Keep Baseball, After All;
4/8/11
TechNews for the week: April 8; April 6; April 4;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Libyan rebel leaders struggle ; Libyan rebels build rudiments of a nation;
Afghans protest against Quran burning as Taliban issue statement of support; Afgan Terror suspects held weeks in secret;
Bahrain extends media clampdown to main opposition newspaper;
Troops fire on Yemen protest; No Yemen aid in initial Pentagon funding request; U.S. ignored alarms about possible revolt against Yemeni leader;
Stronger Gulf storms brew over rivalries between Iran and Western-backed Arabs;
Israeli panel to approve new apartments in contested east Jerusalem;
Republican National Committee suggests presidential debates could be way out of their massive debt; Rep. Michele Bachmann takes in $2M-plus;
Fight Over Policy Riders May Shut Down Government; List of Riders; Government Agency shutdown plan details; What a government shutdown means;
Boehner complicates push for spending deal by seeking House passage with Republicans alone;
Rand Paul urges Republican party not to compromise core beliefs; Georgia Republican Tries To Explain How Abortion Rider Is About Jobs;
Nearly Half Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal;
Walker Blames Madison For Wisc. Supreme Court Election;
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Historians question White House presidential bios;
California Considers Do-Not-Track Internet Law;
Boy Scouts Adds Robotics Merit Badge;
Top 50 Bad Weather Games In Sports History;
Finance and Economics
Paul Ryan's 2012 budget resolution; the Republican radical plan; GOP budget replaces Medicare with vouchers for future retirees; beneficiary costs seen rising;
Senate to vote on bill repealing small part of health law, rescinding tax filing requirement; Call for reform on dividends and capital gains;
High-end medical option prompts Medicare worries; U.S. productivity gains stifle job creation;
FACT CHECK: Are federal workers overpaid?
Goldman CEO Blankfein's 2010 pay package worth $14.1M; up from $1M in 2009; Wachovia laundered billions for Mexico's drug gangs;
Report: Professor Offered to Raise Grades for Fund-Raising Students;
IRS pays $4.5M in 1st award under 2006 whistleblower program for tip worth $20M;
Nasdaq shift to lighten Apple's weighting;
Education:
Counseling Directors See More Students With Severe Psychological Problems;
Researchers Call for New Carnegie Subcategories for Public Master’s Colleges;
Report: Colleges Spend Less Than Claimed To Educate Students; NSSE’s Validity Questioned;
Trustees Are Pressed to Demand Data About Educational Quality at the Colleges They Serve;
State University Presidents' Pay Holds Steady Despite Cuts; Florida A&M U. to Cut 242 Jobs in Restructuring; Liberty's Growing Federal Aid Total;
Key Congressman Likens Pell Grants to Welfare; If Pell Grants Are Cut, Some Colleges May Have to Backtrack on Financial-Aid Offers;
New Jersey gov. calls teachers' union 'bullies and thugs';
The Cronon Case: Part I -- Law, Policy and Email and Part II; After Michigan FOIAs, Wayne State Takes Down Labor Studies Website;
Wisconsin Faculty Urges Administrators to Fight ‘Misuse’ of Open-Records Law; Wisc study: Adjunct Pay vs. Full-Time Pay;
Students Who Use Facebook More for Self-Promotion Show Less Concern for Others;
Captivating YouTube videos that are worth watching from beginning to end;
Citadel's first executive vice president;
As suspensions mount, NCAA mulls changes to agent rules in college baseball;
Dismal NCAA title game was a culmination of bad habits;
4/1/11
TechNews for the week: April 1; March 30; March 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Afghan official says Independent financial panel deciding fate of Kabul Bank; protest turns deadly at U.N. compound;
Within Obama’s war cabinet, battle looms over pace of Afghanistan pullout;
Obama strongly defends U.S. intervention in Libya ; Protecting Libyan citizens or aiding rebels? Role of US, NATO partners under scrutiny;
Gaddafi’s forces push back rebels in key town; forces storm Misrata, rebels offer truce; U.S. ending its combat air role in Libya;
Syrian Cabinet resigns amid worst unrest in decades; Syria offers concessions amid wave of unrest; Assad sees Syria plot, unyielding on emergency law;
Yemen’s fate rests on its two most powerful men; Crowds rally for and against Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh;
Police tear gas protesters in Tunisia after Islamist group demonstrates;
In the Israeli Knesset, some undemocratic activities; Egypt likely to face more difficult relations with Israel, U.S.;
German conservative government suffered a “very painful” defeat in a weekend election;
Wisconsin union law published despite court order; Wis. GOP faces another hurdle in battle over public-sector unions as judge issues new order;
Despite pressure to reduce national debt, few in Congress use payback program ; House GOP leaders turn to Democrats for budget deal;
House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP;
Lawmakers, amid intense lobbying by the banking industry, try to stall law on cutting debit card 'swipe' fees;
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The Greatest Pitcher You've Never Heard Of; Florida kayaker has close encounter with enormous shark;
Supreme Court asked to rule that routine strip searches violate the Constitution;
Finance and Economics
Unemployment rate falls to two-year low of 8.8 percent; CEO pay soars while workers' pay stalls; G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether;
SEC Scrutiny of Secondary Markets; FDA chemist charged with insider trading;
Cable Companies Debate Mobile Rights to TV Shows; Ohio man gets a $16.4 million cable bill;
Rising Medicare premiums threaten to wipe out Social Security COLA for third straight year; Social Security agency copes with backlog;
Economic development and collective bargaining rights;
Education:
Study: Cheaters Might Be Fooling Themselves;
Myths on Program Elimination ; On-line educ may not lead to big bucks for colleges;
An Alternative to Graduation Rates; Standards for Agents – and Colleges;
Tenn. Senate's sends teacher tenure bill to gov; To Protest Pa. Budget Cuts, Lock Haven U. Athletes Run 100 Miles to Capital;
Failure of California Budget Talks Is Bad News for State Colleges; N.Y. Budget Takes Bite Out of SUNY and Omits Most Regulatory Freedoms;
Private Universities Face Rising Retiree Health Benefits;
More Professors Face Records Requests for E-Mails; The Academic Wars in Wisconsin and Texas;
Colonial Athletic Association, Revels in Repeat Final Four Success;
Survey: Drug-Testing Policies for College Athletes Vary Widely; Athletes’ Concussions Could Pose Legal Problems for Colleges;
2 Telecasts Focus on Finances of College Sports; Defining the Value of an Athletic Scholarship;
North Carolina State Tells Loyola to Stop Using 'Wolfpack' Name;
Fiesta Bowl Chief Is Fired Over Campaign-Contribution Allegations;