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Davis hits 16th HR as Orioles beat Blue Jays

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Penguins rip Ottawa 6-2 move to conference finals

Pittsburgh Penguins' Brenden Morrow (10) celebrates his first-period goal with teammate Jussi Jokinen (36) in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in their NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs series, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. ...
Estrada Gonzalez lead Brewers over Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates' Starling Marte, right, slides safely into third for a triple with Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez covering during the sixth inning of a baseball game on Friday, May 24, 2013, in ...
Votto Hanigan HRs lead Reds over Cubs 7-4

Joey Votto extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a homer, and Ryan Hanigan and Brandon Phillips also homered on Friday night, powering the Cincinnati Reds to their fourth straight win, 7-4 over the Chicago ...
Gardner homers Yankees beat Rays 9-4

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Brett Gardner, Lyle Overbay and Jayson Nix each drove in two runs, and the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-4 on Friday night. Gardner made it 5-0 with a two-run homer off Roberto Hernandez (2-5) during the fourth. The Yankees took a 3-0 lead in the second on Overbay's two-run double and an RBI single by Nix. David Phelps (3-2), who retired his first ...

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Real Steel [Blu-Ray]

Like Atom, the giant, vaguely humanistic sparring robot that is dug out of the mud and becomes an unlikely champion in the near-futuristic world of robot boxing, Real Steel is a big, seemingly clunky contraption that works against all odds. Inspired by a 1956 short story by the proli ... ...

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Kendrick finds trouble in fifth as Phils fall in DC

PHI@WSH: Kratz withstands collision for out at home WASHINGTON -- The Phillies had a chance Friday night to move to .500 for the first time in more than a month. They will have to try again some other time. They did little right in a 5-2 loss to the Nationals at Nationals Park. Kyle Kendrick allowed eight hits, five runs, four walks and struck out one in five innings as he struggled with ...
Penguins’ fans as young as five months brave cold to watch Game 5

Payton Kaiser, 5 months old, with her father, Richard, 26, of Mt. Washington, watched the Penguins game on the Trib Big Screen on Friday outside of the Consol Energy ...
MLB Washington 5 Philadelphia 2

Kurt Suzuki 's RBI single put Washington in front during a four-run fifth inning Friday and the Nationals went on to down Philadelphia 5-2. Jordan Zimmermann bounced back from a hard-luck loss last Saturday that ended a personal four-game winning streak to dominate the Phillies n a seven-inning effort. Zimmermann (8-2) allowed only one earned run in the loss to San Diego six days ago. He ...
Neals hat trick leads Penguins back to conference finals

The Pens eliminated the Ottawa Senators Friday night with a 6-2 victory in Game 5 of their semifinals series. continued his hot streak with a hat trick, while Brenden Morrow, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the ...
Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million

The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...

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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. ...