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3/29/13
TechNews for the week: March 29; March 27; March 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Threat of chemical weapons in Syria creates difficulties for U.S. and allies; Government opposition takes Syria’s seat at Arab summit in Qatar;
Iraq fears spread of Syrian violence; Not heeding the lessons of war;
Study: Iraq, Afghan war costs to top $4 trillion to $6 trillion; Navy says Ships Costing U.S. $37 Billion Lack Firepower;
North Korea says it has cut last military hotline;
Cyprus reaches bailout deal that will reshape island nation's economy;
Senate Democrats pass first budget plan in four years; Former officials warn top Justice Dept. vacancies create concerns;
Tough questions from Supreme Court on law barring gay marriage;
Obama administration to move ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline;
Dispute over guest workers threatens to delay immigration deal; The debate over a path to citizenship is resolved among the public, if not in Congress;
Michele Bachmann's Presidential Campaign Investigated By Ethics Watchdog;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
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SC Politics
SC Treasurer, state retirement commission battle over $50M;
Updating SC voting machines will cost millions;
SC schools chief: US Congress repeals state’s $36 million special ed penalty;
Finance and Economics
Little hope seen for millions priced out of health overhaul by glitch in law; Rising inequality can leave everyone worse off;
For Dow 30, tax burden isn’t what it used to be; N.Y.’s Top Court Upholds Online Sales Tax Collection;
Prosecutors announce three new defendants in insider trading probe;
Law Restricts Government’s Technology Purchases;
FCC Chair’s Resignation Raises Net Neutrality Questions; Wireless charging standards still has strings attached;
Google Announces ‘Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge’;
Other news
Decision making for the indecisive;
Scalia’s gay adoption claim is wrong;
Education:
Moody’s Says Federal Budget Cuts Will Have ‘Limited Impact’ on Universities; State Budget Officers Call on States and Colleges to Fix Higher-Ed Finance;
Scholars decry NC legislature’s new direction; Average Pay Increases for Academic Professionals Trailed Inflation This Year;
Obama Signs Bill Restoring Military Tuition Aid and Cutting Poli-Sci Research;
Budget Cuts Hurt Community-College Access in California; Database of Student-Loan Borrowers' Complaints;
Wisconsin Scuttles Panel Charged With Setting Standards for For-Profits; The Ethics And Economics Of Unpaid Internships;
Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Michigan Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions;
The Global Challenge of Scaling Up Higher Education;
It’s MOOAs, Not MOOCs, That Will Transform Higher Education; Inside the inverted transition-to-proofs class: What the students said;
Lab Equipment Made With 3-D Printers Could Cut Costs by 97%; Middle School students Use 3-D Printers To Create Physical Objects;
Former Athletics Official at Syracuse U. Admits to Secretly Videotaping Athletes;
3/22/13
TechNews for the week: March 22; March 20; March 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraq War was boon for contractors; How to outsource war to private contractors; Iraq: lessons are there for the heeding;
Syria, rebels trade charges of using a chemical weapon near Aleppo; In Syria, a new taste of Islamic law; High-ranking Syrian general defects from army;
White House’s caution in Syria frustrates some close U.S. allies; With drone base in Niger, U.S. gains strategic foothold in West Africa;
Small-arms treaty moving forward at UN, faces opposition from the NRA;
Budget cutting forces Pentagon to look at strategy again; Congress takes a bipartisan position against military cuts, public interests;
FBI surveillance tool ruled unconstitutional; Secret report raises alarms on intelligence blind spots because of AQ focus;
Congress approves spending measure to avert government shutdown;
ECB says it will pull the plug on Cyprus banks if no deal is reached;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web issues
SC Politics
Sanford will be in runoff for 1st District GOP; Colbert Busch wins Democratic nomination;
Finance and Economics
JPMorgan Chase bullied bank regulators, according to testimony; Lenders pushing private label mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) again;
Big banks engaging in payday lending;
It's Airbus' A350 vs. Boeing's Dreamliner in the 'War of the Wide-bodies'; Boeing Boosted CEO’s Pay 20% in Year Before Dreamliner Grounding;
Two contracting executives plead guilty to major government fraud; Contractor compensation still under fire;
American Society Of Civil Engineers Report Gives US A "D+" On Infrastructure;
Strapped for retirement, more workers hope to work longer;
Internet tax proposal up for a vote in Senate this week;
Other news
10 immutable laws of mistakes;
Education:
Colleges, Universities See Graying Workforce;
Report Details Steep Declines in State Support for Higher Education;
Report: Public Colleges Contribute $26.6-Billion Annually to Florida Economy; Chicago Says It Will Close 54 Public Schools;
Obama Administration Cuts Financial Incentive for Student-Loan Debt Collectors; Government slashes collection firms’ commissions on overdue student loans;
Judge Refuses to Restore Vacated Provisions of 'Gainful Employment' Rule;
SUNY Signals Major Push Toward MOOCs and Other New Educational Models; Behind the MOOCs Hype;
Universities Offering Courses On Drone Navigation;
On UT campus, Sex Week generates little controversy;
In college sports, it’s money and connections; Northern Kentucky U. Fires Athletic Director Amid Misconduct Allegations;
3/15/13
TechNews for the week: March 15; March 13; March 11;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
N. Korea says it has scrapped armistice that ended Korean War; U.S. to bolster missile defenses to counter North Korea threat;
U.S. officials: Iran, al-Qaeda relationship showing cracks; Turkey is economic winner of Iraq war;
Military rethinking leads to some hard choices; Air Force general’s reversal of pilot’s sexual-assault conviction angers lawmakers;
Kicking that fiscal can down the road; Lobbyists gird for tax reform fight;
Ryan targets Obamacare; Says Welfare reform can be a model for the rest of the safety net; budget plan calls two solar projects ‘ill-fated’—but they’re doing fine;
FBI probing whether political figures’ financial records were illicitly accessed;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web issues
Finance and Economics
Norway’s public pension reflects investing shift away from Europe; Investors Seek Funds For Floating Tech-World To Bypass US Visa Restrictions;
Why The 4% Rule No Longer Works For Retirees; Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy;
Senate report accuses JPMorganChase CEO of hiding data about big losses; Company Sues Visa Over Penalties for Data Breaches;
Is BYOD helping or hurting your company’s productivity? Yellowstone gets real about budget cuts;
Boeing Details Fixes For 787 Dreamliner Battery System; 787 Batteries, Highlights Cost Of Efficiency;
Other news
The Calculus of Ideas; What to Look for in Your Next Credit Card;
Scouts survey members on whether to keep gay ban; California Bill Would Remove Tax Break For Boy Scouts Over Gay Exclusions;
Lawyer: Ex-Citadel cadet who filed strip-search complaint also endured racial harassment;
Education:
University Leaders From Asia and the Pacific Consider Challenges of Globalization;
California May Require Colleges to Give Credit for Outside, Online Courses;
Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves, but Key Questions Remain Unanswered; What You Need to Know About MOOCs;
Consumer-Protection Agency Seeks Oversight of Nonbank Student-Loan Servicers;
Sequester Watch: Army and Marines Suspend Tuition Assistance Programs; Air Force and Coast Guard Suspend Tuition Assistance Programs;
In 2014 Budgets, Republicans and Democrats Offer Competing Plans for Academe; Average Pay Increases for Tenure-Track Faculty Matched Inflation This Year ;
Computer Science Enrollments Increased In 2012; Revamped Engineering Programs To Prepare Students For Jobs;
State and District NCLB Waivers: Good News and Bad News; Law Professors See the Damage Done by ‘No Child Left Behind’;
States draw hard line on third-graders, holding some back over reading; 4 Out of 5 High Schools Offer Dual Credit Courses;
12 Open Educational Resources: From Khan to MIT;
Free-Textbook Company Rewrites Its Content Following Publishers’ Lawsuit; Open-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree;
Harvard Explains Its Search of Deans’ E-Mails in Cheating Case;
3/8/13
TechNews for the week: March 8; March 6; March 4;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Bin Laden’s son-in-law in U.S. custody; How the U.S. Marks Unidentified Men in Pakistan and Yemen as Drone Targets;
Funding for criminal inquiries of contracting in Iraq may be extended;
How Paul Ryan will balance his budget;
A special budgetary treatment for Defense;
Newest CPAC speaker: Donald Trump;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
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SC Politics
South Carolina ranks near the top in its college graduation rates; The Citadel fights handing over certain documents in suit over Skip ReVille;
Few fireworks, but some differences in 1st District forum; Kuhn’s lobs grenade at Sanford;
S.C. early voting bills hit roadblocks; SC attorney general won’t face penalties for missing campaign contributions;
Finance and Economics
U.S. economy adds 236,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate falls to 7.7 percent;
New robots in the workplace: Job creators or job terminators?; IT Talent Shortage Or Purple Squirrel Hunt?
Fox Sports: game gamble;
Medicaid insurers gear up for profit;
Other news
Singer cancels Boy Scout concert over gay ban;
Education:
Students and States Near a 50-50 Split on the Cost of Public Higher Education; A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish It Meant More;
MIT, Stanford Rank as Top Schools for Computer Science; Help Computer-Science Students Crack the Code;
Athletic Directors’ Pay Rises Again; Penn State Sues Insurer Over Claims From Sandusky Scandal;
NCAA to reconsider some recruiting deregulation; Report Describes Challenges for Faculty in Monitoring Athletics;
3/1/13
TechNews for the week: March 1; February 27; February 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Afghanistan: US special forces must leave province; Taliban suicide attacks target Afghan intelligence agency;
U.S. considers direct aid to Syrian rebels; In Syria, new influx of weapons to rebels tilts the battle against Assad;
Israel on heightened alert after death of Palestinian prisoner;
U.S. troops arrive in Niger to set up drone base;
The big sequester gamble: How badly will the cuts hurt? White House releases state-by-state breakdown of sequester's effects;
Unions, agencies to bargain over furloughs as sequester nears; Sequester hits federal agencies. Now what for federal employees?
Firearms-makers to politicians on gun rights: You balk, we walk;
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Surveillance Law; Supreme Court defines SEC time limits for pursuing civil cases;
Obama administration says Calif. same-sex marriage ban violates Constitution;
Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web issues
SC Politics
SC Republican leaders say activists angling to ditch GOP primary, oust Graham;
Charleston County offering incentives for 3 expanding businesses;
Finance and Economics
Without Medicaid expansion, hefty fines loom for small SC firms; Companies are dropping health coverage for spouses to cut costs;
In Florida, a health-care quandary; Michigan Nurse's, Discrimination Suit Reveals Medicine's 'Open Secret';
SEC enforcement successes not all part of overhaul, data show; Wall Street bonuses rise 9%;
Markets take fright at complex Italian election results; A new European transactions tax is set to go global;
The hidden tax that Washington doesn’t want you to know about; Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill Aimed at Patent Trolls;
Low Pay at Weight Watchers Stirs Protest as Stars Rake It In;
Visa, Samsung announce global deal for mobile payments;
Education:
Most Families Lack a Plan to Pay for College; Average Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story of College Costs;
College Board Plans an 'Improved' SAT; Teaching Financial Literacy Is a Challenge, Both on Campus and Beyond;
Average Pay Increase for Top Administrators Barely Outpaces Inflation;
Revolving Loans Help Colleges Improve Sustainability; Louisiana Budget Causes Confusion for Colleges;
Digital Devices Invade Campus, and Networks Feel the Strain; Chapel Hill Checks on Its Classes to Ensure They’re Real;
SoCon commissioner: New football proposals make it ‘harder to keep up’ for FCS schools;
NCAA Punishes Men’s Basketball Team at Saint Mary’s College of California;
Athletic Programs' Twitter Jitters; NCAA Leaders Rally Behind Mark Emmert; Maryland Regents Broke Open-Meetings Law in Big Ten Talks;