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Clarification Fossil Fuels-Divestment story

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - In a story May 22, The Associated Press reported 72 percent of Harvard University's student body voted in favor of the school's endowment divesting from fossil fuel companies. The story should have made clear that the vote was held only among undergraduates and that of the ballots cast, 72 percent were in favor of ...
UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane

Lahore, Pakistan , was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men have been arrested and removed from the plane, which landed safely and was on an isolated runway at Stansted Airport. Britain's Ministry of Defense confirmed that a Typhoon jet was scrambled to investigate ...
Washington Bridge Collapses Concerns Over Pennsylvania Bridge Safety

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (KDKA/AP) – A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only minor injuries. It happened about 7 p.m. Thursday on the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles north of Seattle, ...
Multiple aftershocks follow 5.7 quake in N. Calif.

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- At least 22 aftershocks have struck following an earthquake in far northeastern California that was felt as far away as San Francisco and in two other ...
Website plans columns by Corbett Schwartz

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A website affiliated with Philadelphia's newspapers is drawing criticism for its decision to publish columns by Gov. Tom Corbett and one of his re-election challengers, U.S Rep. Allyson ...

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Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

By 1980, as he was entering the fifth decade of his career as a film director, Akira Kurosawa was probably best known outside of his native Japan for his samurai films, including Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), and Sanjuro (1962). W ... ...

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C. Pa. official Students safe after school threat

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A central Pennsylvania school official says students are safe but classes are dismissing early as a precaution following a threat to an elementary ...
Brother-in-law to trial in W. Pa. mans murder

COCHRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting of his brother-in-law, a killing the victim's widow says stemmed from a family property ...
Protesters arrested at coal firm Alphas HQ in Va

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) -- Several environmental protesters are facing charges after blocking the road leading to the headquarters for coal producer Alpha Natural Resources in ...
Police Suicide bomb hits heart of Afghan capital

A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...
AAA expects slight increase in highway travel for Memorial Day

With state gas prices lower than this time last year, AAA is predicting a slight increase in highway travel nationwide for Memorial Day weekend.Shawn Kaup, AAA director of marketing and public relations for the Central Penn region, expects the state to fall in line with national projections and expects a slight increase in the number of cars on the road this weekend.“Memorial Day is ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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Metro Hotel on Pitt

A truly affordable hotel in Sydney, with stylish decor, great location and in-house snazzy brasserie? If the notion of affordable ...

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...