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The Career Personality Test
Not sure what career to pursue? Not sure if your current career is right for you? Find out which type of career best suits your personality
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Define Necessity
During the holidays it's important to remember where your priorities lie.
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Cinque Terre, Italy
This portion of the Italian Riviera is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cars aren't allowed, so take local trains or ferries to go from town to town or walk.
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Houston, We Have a Shuttle
Credit: NASA
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11-Year-Old Allegedly Brings Gun To School For 'Protection'
An 11-year-old student may face charges after he said his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection. Fox Salt Lake City reports that the boy said his parents' suggestion came after the devastating Sandy Hook Elementary shooting on Friday.
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Zuckerberg Gives $500 Million in Facebook Stock to Charity
Mark Zuckerberg donated Facebook shares worth $500 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with donors to allocate funds according to their interests.
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The days of $400 college textbooks may soon be over
Are the days of $400 college textbooks coming to an end? Initiatives from Open Educational Resources proponents, and now publishers, may mean more course content from low or no-cost online resources.
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What Happens to Christmas Trees After the Holidays?
Once the parties are over and the presents are unwrapped, the Christmas tree's job is done. Or is it? Once you get it out of the house, that forlorn little evergreen can take on a whole new role.
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Sandy Hook Students Return to Classes at New School on Thursday
When Sandy Hook students return to a new school on Thursday, they will find their setting looking nearly exactly like their previous classrooms, right down to the pictures on the walls.
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Teacher morale 'dangerously low'
Morale among teachers in England and Wales is "dangerously low" and "has declined dramatically in recent months" a survey suggests.
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Online Courses Look for a Business Model
Massive open online courses—dubbed MOOCs—have lured venture investors and universities, who have put millions of dollars into companies that partner with schools or instructors to offer free courses.
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Malala Yousafzai was discharged from a hospital in Birmingham, England, on Thursday
In an attack that propelled her to global recognition, Malala was targeted in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen for speaking out in favor of education for Pakistani girls. She was left with life-threatening head and neck wounds.
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ASEXUALITY: THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT ANYONE
Minerva isn’t a lesbian, she says, but she certainly isn’t straight. At 29 years old, Minerva, who asked that she be identified by the name of her Tumblr, has never had a romantic relationship. She calls herself "asexual," meaning she doesn't experience sexual attraction. To anyone.
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How times have changed
These little runts have it so good these days.
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Ahead of Brazil World Cup, free English classes planned for prostitutes
In the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, free English classes will be offered to prostitutes to deal with the influx of 2014 World Cup tourists.
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Speaking More Than One Language Could Prevent Alzheimer's : NPR
Neuroscientists have found that bilingual seniors were better at certain skills that can fade with age than their monolingual peers, which could help protect them against Alzheimer's disease. But the researchers don't know whether learning a second language in adulthood would provide the same benefit.
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How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It
Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one its campuses--a move that spells the end of higher education as we know it.
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Middle school teacher can't shake porn past, cannot return to classroom to teach.
A middle-school science teacher fired after students learned she had appeared in pornographic movies had hoped not just to get her job back, but to set a precedent for people looking to escape an embarrassing personal history.
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Take Mensa's Free Test and Find Out If You're a Genius
Mensa—the club for people who know they're smarter than you—is offering its home test for free during the month of January. It's an IQ test that takes 32 minutes to complete and at the end it'll tell you whether you're Mensa material.
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Tight parking, pedestrian fee rankle at Worcester State University
It costs to walk on the campus of Worcester State University.
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