Tag: college
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December 14, 2009 02:19 PM EST --
NEOSHO, Mo. This city in southwest Missouri sits smack dab in the middle of "Tornado Alley", a well-worn path taken by twisters as they rotate out of Oklahoma into the Kansas City area. . . .
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September 09, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
KALISPELL, Montana. Joe Ray Diggs, head coach of the Western Montana State University Mountain Goats, is regularly mentioned when a school with aspirations on cracking college football's . . .
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March 21, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
BETHANY, Mo. Tiffany Alexander is a junior at Missouri River Valley College, a four-year liberal arts school whose students are not unlike those on many campuses across the country. "There's . . .
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October 02, 2008 09:24 AM EDT --
JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Cindy Scorzello thought she was all set to start school at North Central Florida College in Tallahassee next fall. "They offered me a volleyball scholarship, . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:06 AM EST --
HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois. On paper, Jacob Werther, a senior at Highland Park High School in this affluent suburb of Chicago, would appear to be a shoo-in at a top college. "Jacob's . . .
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May 06, 2007 09:10 PM EDT --
COLUMBIA, Mo. When the roll of graduates is called this June at the University of Missouri, the crowd of fresh-faced seniors will include at least one with a fair share of wrinkles. Linda "Pookie" . . .
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August 19, 2008 08:40 AM EDT --
DURHAM, North Carolina. A group of 100 presidents of some of the America's best-known colleges today urged lawmakers nationwide to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying many . . .
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December 04, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
FLORISSANT, Mo. Amy Ratcliffe is a high school junior who says she's "on the bubble" for her first college choice, Vanderbilt University. "I bombed the math part of my SAT . . .
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July 13, 2009 08:37 AM EDT --
In just one month, my wife and I will drop our son off for his freshman year of college. I am anticipating an emotional parting; after all, it was me, not his mother, who used to get up at six in . . .
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November 16, 2006 07:26 PM EST --
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. Myles Brand, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, today fired back at Congressional critics with a 25-page letter that portrays the organization as the defender . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
SAN DIEGO, California. Jeff Twining is a relative newcomer to California, but he's already seen the West Coast from several perspectives.
Stanford
"I got into Stanford, but I found out . . .
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July 01, 2008 08:07 AM EDT --
URBANA, Illinois. Tillie Peterson's college days were cut short forty-five years ago when, at the age of 20, she decided to get married. "I've never regretted that decision," . . .
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November 19, 2008 08:56 PM EST --
NEW YORK. Mel Sewanicki, Columbia class of '47, still can't buy a drink in this town even though it's been six decades since he made "The Catch", a diving grab of a fourth-quarter . . .
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August 28, 2009 10:07 PM EDT --
PARK RIDGE, Illinois. Bowing to pressure from the Association of Secondary School Math Instructors, the Big 10 Conference today admitted that it in fact has eleven member schools, and agreed . . .
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September 10, 2009 08:46 AM EDT --
ABILENE, Texas. Ryan Simmons is, to all appearances, a slightly scrawny high school senior with no particular athletic ability, but he's drawing attention from top colleges across the country . . .
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November 10, 2007 11:14 AM EST --
BOSTON. On the night the Boston Red Sox came back from a 3-1 deficit to defeat the Cleveland Indians in the American League Championship Series, local college students flooded the Fenway area in . . .
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September 04, 2008 08:25 AM EDT --
WASHINGTON, D.C. Responding to criticism from elite institutions of higher learning, U.S. News & World Report today announced that it would include female leg and armpit hair as a factor in . . .
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September 17, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
INDIANAPOLIS. Alarmed by what they call "inexcusable neglect" of college dance teams, the American Association of University Professors today called on the nation's institutions of . . .
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September 01, 2009 07:49 AM EDT --
Young chimpanzees outperformed university students in short-term memory tests conducted by Japanese researchers. CBC News .
I sat nervously in the reception area of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Industries, . . .
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September 01, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
WORCESTER, Mass. Todd Zucker is a senior at Clark University in this central Massachusetts town, but he's not looking forward to graduation next spring. "I've had a great three years here," . . .
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