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10/29/10
TechNews for the week: October 29; October 27; October 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Gen. Petraeus says progress is faster than expected in Afghanistan operation; Despite successful U.S. attacks on Taliban leaders insurgency remains in control ;
U.S. military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn't succeeded; Stryker unit sought to defend killing at heart of Afghan murder probe;
Wikileaks defies feds, releases Iraq war files; Wikileaks's leaks mostly confirm earlier Iraq reporting; Conservatives want U.S. to cyberattack WikiLeaks;
Campaign: Activist stomped outside Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate; Tea party's attacks Minn congressman for being Muslim;
The most productive Congress in half a century gets no respect from voters;
Creating possible split from U.S. policy E.U. rules let Iran import, export oil;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
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Amid anger, regret over Williams's firing, NPR staffers fear financial backlash;
10 signs of an uncooperative workplace; Employee browsing habits: the good, the bad, and the ugly;
Career management: performance issues; Soft Skills Inportant in Interviews;
U.S. congressman calls for YouTube to remove videos featuring militant;
WikiLeaks shifts focus;
Elections Could Postpone Net Neutrality Legislation;
Finance and Economics
G-20 divided over Geithner plan to cap mismatch between what any nation produces and consumes; China official: dollar printing causing inflation;
Five Campaign Fibs About the Economy; U.S. GDP grew at 2% annual rate in 3Q;
Most Americans worry about ability to pay mortgage or rent; The real foreclosure mess: Lack of accountability for banks;
AmeriHealth Mercy insurance company loses Medicaid data on 280,000 recipients;
FCC reaches record settlement with Verizon Wireless over 'mystery' fees; FERC Draft Regulation Would Spread Wind-Power Grid Costs;
Education:
Why a "good" teacher refused to take a challenged kids class and comments;
Merger Creates New Accrediting Agency for Teacher Preparation;
College Costs, Financial Assistance Both On The Rise; Ohio's Higher Education struggles; Credit Card Companies Pay Millions to Colleges;
'Precision Guesswork' on the GPA; University Hawaii posts info of 40K students;
Some Experts Urge Colleges To Push E-Book Adoption; Students Students Remain Reluctant to Try E-Textbooks;
Video: Face-Off—Moodle v. Blackboard;
Top Ten YouTube Channels for Education; Eight Reasons An Innovative Educator Uses Twitter; Top 10 Blogging Solutions;
NCAA: Graduation Rates for Scholarship Athletes Hold Steady at 79%; Commentary: Sports Are Good for Colleges;
Full Athletic Scholarships Don't Cover Cost of Attendance; Former College Player Sues NCAA Over One-Year Limit on Scholarships;
10/22/10
TechNews for the week: October 22; October 20; October 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.S. military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war; Afghan-Taliban talks focusing on site, safe passage for negotiations;
Potential talks between Afghan government, Taliban in push for peace; U.S.-led Afghan reconstruction projects to end because of security guard dispute;
Pentagon asks media not to publish war leaks; WikiLeaks: U.S. knew but failed to probe Iraqi abuse cases; files give A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq;
Iraq's Kurds set to be kingmakers again;
2010: The year of politicking insanely; GOP's election strategy lets others do its dirty work; Republican congressional candidates race ahead in fundraising;
The Tea Party’s Cold War roots and Glen Beck's Extremism; The elite behind the Tea Party;
W.Va. Senate race Manchin vs Raese; Combat veteran Sowers calls for end to wars in bid for House seat in Missouri;
Joe Miller Security Guards Handcuff & Detain 'Alaska Dispatch' Editor; O'Donnell questions separation of church and state;
Democrats suffer from Americans' unwillingness to accept economic reality;
Britain plans $131 billion in spending cuts by 2015;
Federal bailout for Fannie, Freddie could more than double;
State regulators finalize recommendations on insurers' 'medical loss ratio';
Math, science and technology:
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The Unethical Workplace;
South Carolina's voting machines; Students hack D.C. voting system;
U.N. Reports Number of Internet Users Doubles;
NPR fires Juan Williams for anti-Muslim bigotry; ABC, NBC and CBS blocking shows on Google TV;
Finance and Economics
For foreclosure processors hired by mortgage lenders, speed equaled money; The story behind The Foreclosure Crisis;
Foreclosure system in chaos: Lenders and lawmakers discover thousands of mishandled mortgage documents;
Social Security benefits will remain flat for 2nd straight year; Report warns of coming wave of municipal pension shortfalls; a previous report;
Banks Shared Clients’ Profits, but Not Losses; FDIC cancels fee hike for banks, sees bank failures costing less; Goodbye to traditional free checking;
Mich., U.S. sue Blue Cross, charge anticompetitive pricing;
Health care law fact check: Medicaid, health spending, and abortion myths and missteps ;
The Economy and College Admissions;
Underemployed college graduates;
Education:
Class of 2009 Graduates Who Borrowed Left College With Estimated $24,000 in Debt; College Completion Among Young Men Stagnates;
Ohio State to cut vendors, but no plan in place to halt the growing bureaucracy; Top Fund Raisers Saw Steep Drop in Donations Last Year;
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Rule Against 'Double-Dipping' Lawmakers;
Internationalization of Higher Education: the Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected;
Cal State Bans Students From Using Online Note-Selling Service;
One Math Course, Variously Valued Within a Single University System; Parents find specialized schools to fill gaps in new math;
U. Kentucky and Student Newspaper Clash Over Sports-Marketing Deal; NCAA Considers a National Pro-Sports Counseling Panel;
Amid Modern Arenas, Hinkle Fieldhouse Holds Fast to Historic Charm;
10/16/10
TechNews for the week: October 15; October 13;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Brigade linked to Afghan civilian deaths had aggressive, divergent war strategy;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
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India planing its own operating system;
No Such Thing As Free Public WiFi;
Finance and Economics
Employment rate stays at 9.6 percent; economy loses 95,000 jobs;
Education:
Report: College Dropouts Cost Taxpayers Billions;
Texas A&M to Revise Controversial Faculty Rewards Based on Student Evaluations;
Computer Scientists Cry Foul Over Data Problems in NRC Rankings;
Athletic Trainers Could Be at Risk of Concussion Lawsuits;
UConn Says Basketball Team Violated Major NCAA Rules; U. of Oregon Disputed on Claim of Athletic Self-Sufficiency;
10/8/10
TechNews for the week: October 8; October 6; October 4;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Taliban steps up attacks in Kandahar with blasts; Taliban, Karzai government holding high-level talks; CIA using military drones in Pakistan;
Iraqis Want To Know When The Electricity Will Work;
Feds suspend one of the nation's largest contractors from receiving government work;
Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound; Prudential invests U.S. funds intended to pay troop death benefits;
Problems Seen in Process for BP Oil Spill Fund;
Midterm Election Funding; GOP-allied group weighs in with $4 million in ads;
DNC rakes in $16 million in September; spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret;
Campaign watchdogs accuse top conservative group of violating tax laws; Is Foreign Money Fueling Attack Ads in the U.S.?
Glenn Beck's obsession with Hitler and Woodrow Wilson; DeMint targets Senate colleagues; Remarks Put DeMint In Hot Water;
Does Christine O'Donnell know something about China that you don't? Alaska Tea Party flare up: Todd Palin slams Joe Miller in leaked emails;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
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Bullying in the workplace; History's Worst Bosses; New Book Offers Disturbing Portrait of Youth Basketball;
Math innovator Dan Meyer talks about hard and soft math;
U.S. District Court Senior Judge Jack Camp, Citadel grad arrested on federal drug charges;
Google Rolls out Google TV Website;
Finance and Economics
Government workers' pensions are targets amid budget deficits, ; The costs of rising economic inequality;
In foreclosure controversy, problems run deeper than flawed paperwork; Bank of America will halt foreclosures nationwide;
Report: Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity;
Verizon Wireless plans up to $90 million in customer refunds;
Rogue trader slapped with shocking fine- repay $6.7 billion and 3 years in jail;
Apple Loses $625.5M Digital Display Patent Lawsuit;
Education:
Earmark Critic Blasts Lawmakers' Spending on Education Projects; S. Carolina Panel, Sending Message on Tuition, Restricts Building Projects;
Missouri Campuses Are Asked to Account for 'Low-Producing' Degree Programs;
Poll: 4-Year Colleges Aren't for Everyone; Educating, Parenting Keys to National Success;
Debit cards replacing credit cards on college campuses;
Connecticut's Attorney General Says Trustees of Connecticut State U. Broke the Law; U.S. Supreme Court Hands Trademark Victory to Southern Cal;
Academic Identity Crises: Who is a Professor? What is an Administrator?;
More Districts Adopting Singapore Math Program;
'Curriculum Review' for Athletics;
Ohio Attorney General Gets Tough on Sports Agents;
10/1/10
TechNews for the week: October 1; September 29; September 27;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Second attack on NATO convoy in Pakistan; Afgan supply tankers torched; CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan amid fear of al-Qaeda terror in Europe;
Iraq breaks record for longest time with no government;
Woodward's Book: Military thwarted president choice in Afghanistan; Biden warned Obama not to get 'locked into Vietnam'; Obama: the cancer is in Pakistan';
'State secrets' claim invoked to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi;
Fort Hood reports record number of suicides; Four suicides in a week;
Rove Returns, With Team, Planning G.O.P. Push; New 'Super Pacs' bringing millions into campaigns; Billionaire Brothers Bankroll Tea Party;
Delaware Race Is Bellwether: All Politics Is Now National; Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength;
Jim DeMint's Roadblock: an 'Undemocratic' Move?; and Can business afford Jim DeMint?;
Bill Maher’s New Clip Of O’Donnell: ‘Why Aren’t Monkeys Still Evolving Into Humans?’; Why Are Conservatives Targeting Muslims? And Why Now?;
Pastors plan to 'bait' IRS with pulpit politics;
Senate bill to tax firms that export jobs fails;
Prop 23: Schwarzenegger Blasts Big Oil For 'Self-Serving Greed';
AP Poll: Many wish health law went further;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
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Survey: Americans don't know much about religion;
Oracle bypassed: Programmers fork OpenOffice;
Senate Net Neutrality Deal Collapses; GOP won't support;
Finance and Economics
Census data: Household incomes drop for second straight year; Income gap between rich and poor got wider in 2009;
Report gives stimulus package high marks; Survey: State Revenues Are Slowly Rebounding;
BofA delays foreclosures in 23 states because of documents problem;
IRS to stop mailing out paper tax forms;
Fight for Senate antipiracy bill rages;
Education:
Solution for Slumping State Support; Ohio to delay payments to colleges by one month; S.C. Governor Takes Parting Shots at Higher Education;
Report details Views of Education professors; an overview; Online STEM modeling network tool;
Southern Regional Education Board Board Suggests Ways to Lower College Costs and Increase Degree Production;
An Elaborate Ranking of Doctoral Programs Makes Its Long-Awaited Debut; an interactive comparison;
Most States Already Collect Employment Data of College Graduates; UMass to Start 3-Year Option;
Study of College Employees Suggests Bliss in Ignorance of Pay Gaps; Budget Cuts in Britain Could Impact Scientific Research for a Generation;
Harvard's Debt Load Puts Strain on the University, Halts Projects; Schwarzenegger Vetoes Transparency Bill for College Foundations;
Savannah Art College President's Compensation Reached Nearly $2-Million in 2008;
Faculty object to U Tolado reorganization; Colleges' newest dorm dwellers: professors;
Census: Women closing in on male-dominated fields;
Gossip Web Sites Still Pose Troubling Questions for Colleges;
Revisiting Google Documents in the Writing Classroom; A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs;
Berkeley Will Eliminate 5 Teams After Faculty Outcry Over Athletics Subsidy; At MSU Athletics Chips In for Faculty Bonuses;
Pete Carroll Brought His '09 Pay Package to $4.6-Million; Controversial Women's Basketball Coach Fired;
Agents’ presence on the college scene; In California, 'Athletes' Rights' Measure Becomes Law;
Florida State's New Faculty Rep Prepares for the Job Following Cheating Scandal;