Posted on August 31st, 2009 by janestrudwick
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Posted on August 31st, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 31, 2009
News Item: Nicknamed the “Lion of the Senate,” Edward “Ted” Kennedy, the youngest son of the famed Kennedy family, died at the age of 77 after a fifteen month battle with brain cancer. (This comes a few weeks after the death of one of his sisters, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.) He is [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Looking to compute in the clouds, program like a pro, fix old photographs, design a navigable web page, find answers to questions about Microsoft Office products, or finally figure out why tweeting is a revelation (or not)? Safari Books Online is a collection of current technology and business books from publishers such as O’Reilly Media, [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 24, 2009
News Item: August 21, 1959: Hawai`i becomes the fiftieth state of the union.
In 1893 Queen Lili`uokalani served as the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai`i before it was overthrown by a group of American and European businessmen and eventually annexed by the United States. Today, the Islands are home [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 17, 2009
News Item: Forty years ago more than 300,000 people swarmed to a farm in Bethel, New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair which featured performers such as Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Joan Baez. Rain, mud, traffic jams, food shortages, psychedelic [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 3, 2009 - Note: “In the News” returns with a new post on August 17, 2009
News Item: One of the main topics discussed daily on blogs, in magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio news programs is health care reform. What is it? Who will benefit? Why should we care? How [...]
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