Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Washington, May 9 (ANI): Thinking of enrolling into the University of Missouri's journalism school? Well, then the first thing you need to do is to buy an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Already, 99.5 percent of the university's journalism students have macs, and incoming freshmen have now been told they'll need an ...
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): An angry Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is expected to skip today's cabinet meeting in the capital in the wake of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi suggesting a possible political arrangement with Lalu's rival in Bihar -- Chief Minister Nitish ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
New Delhi, May 4 (ANI): A Chinese school is offering a rather unusual advice to its students, "Adjust your body rhythm as soon as possible to completely rule out needing toilet breaks during class."
Sanmenxia No.1 High School has put the red banner emblazoned with the bizarre advice across the campus ...
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
London, April 28 (ANI): Jack Nicholson handed out acting advice to students at his daughter's university campus on April 25.
The Departed star joined the panel including producers Robert Evans, Brad Grey and former studio chief Peter Bart for the Ivy League Film Festival ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Washington, April 17 (ANI): Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has erupted on the Red Planet.
The dust storm began in mid-March 2009, in the large Southern Hemisphere ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
London, Apr.14 (ANI): A student visa scam has surfaced in Britain. A bogus college is reported to have sold places on fake courses to hundreds of Pakistanis seeking entry to Britain.
According to The Times, the Manchester College of Professional Studies acted as a gateway to Britain for foreigners willing ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Chicago, April 11 (Xinhua) Two people were shot and killed Friday at a community college in the US state of Michigan, media reports said.
A man and a woman were found dead in a classroom in Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, the police said.
In this apparent murder-suicide, the man was ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
They are baffled when they go from China to Chandni Chowk and encounter Delhi's Hindi. Why do people say mereko, they asked this correspondent in a room stacked with the Manusmriti and Bhagavada Gita at Peking University.
"Saying mereko instead of mujhe and #8230;theek nahin (not right),'' said Jiang Jingkui, chairman ...
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Washington, Mar. 20 (ANI): US First Lady Michelle Obama remembers being ridiculed for trying to be educated and getting good grades in school in Chicago's South side.
"I wanted an "A". I wanted to be smart. I wanted to ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Washington, March 20 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to realising higher speed electronics and higher performance electrical and optical integrated circuits, ...
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