Police: Drunken driver left children alone

Source: Detroit News Online

Police have informed child protective services of a motorist arrested recently on suspicion of drunken driving who had left two small children alone and unsupervised in a Holiday Inn Express on Woodward. The Detroit man, 27, is under inve ...
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Spelling champ excels by finding patterns in words

Source: Ventura County Star

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will be broadcast on the Web and on TV. Here's the schedule of live broadcasts. The bee has the youngest speller in its history this year — 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison from Woodbridge, Va. The 278 spellers competing co ...
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News: Cornell researcher receives Microsoft fellowship for developing personal robots

Source: The Ithaca Journal

An assistant professor at Cornell University will receive funding from Microsoft to expand his...- 8:30 pm ITHACA -- Education reformer Michelle Rhee will give the Spencer T. and Ann W.- 8:05 pm SYRACUSE -- Make-A-W ...
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Fernbank Science Center in jeopardy

Source: Clairmont Heights Civic Association

From the Druid Hills Civic Association and others: The DeKalb County Board of Education proposes to close Fernbank Science Center!! Dear Community Member, Thursday, May 24, 2012. We are faced with a crisi ...
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Graphene-control cutting using an atomic force microscope-based nanorobot

Source: Nanotech Now

Professor LIU Lianqing from the State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor XI Ning from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State Universit ...
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Space station astronauts enter SpaceX capsule

Source: The Alexandria Town Talk

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts swung open the hatch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule Saturday, literally opening the door on a new era in commercial spaceflight. "Smells like a brand new car," reported Don Pettit, who on Friday ...
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A tour of the McLaren facility where the MP4-12C is built [Video]

Source: Leftlane

If you thought that The Simpsons episode on ‘Mapple,’ which gently mocked the cleanliness of Apple’s Zen-inspired stores and design ethos was on the mark (not to mention amusing), you haven’t seen pristine until you’ve seen McLaren’s Technology Center i ...
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Nashoba Tech offers Summer Experience

Source: Lowell Sun Online

WESTFORD -- Nashoba Valley Technical High School is again offering its Summer Experience, a four-week program that introduces st udents who are entering grades 6-9 to several hands-on activities designed to educate and entertain. ...
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OCtech Area Commission OKs 2.7-percent tuition hike

Source: The Times and Democrat

A tuition increase of approximately 2.7 percent has been approved for next fall by the Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Area Commission. This amounts to $4 more per credit hour, or $145 for area students. Out-of-county students will pay an additi ...
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