Ala. prof won’t be charged in 1993 Mass. mail bomb (AP)
AP – A former professor accused of killing three colleagues in a shooting rampage in Alabama earlier this year won’t be charged in an attempted mail-bombing in Massachusetts 17 years ago.
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Ala. prof won’t be charged in 1993 Mass. mail bomb (AP)
AP – A former professor accused of killing three colleagues in a shooting rampage in Alabama earlier this year won’t be charged in an attempted mail-bombing in Massachusetts 17 years ago.
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Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores (AP)
AP – One St. John’s University student was ordered to make meals at a veteran administrator’s home. Another withdrew cash that was delivered to the same official at a casino. A third had to answer personal e-mails — or else be kicked out of school.
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Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores (AP)
AP – One St. John’s University student was ordered to make meals at a veteran administrator’s home. Another withdrew cash that was delivered to the same official at a casino. A third had to answer personal e-mails — or else be kicked out of school.
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Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores
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Senators spar over for-profit education (Reuters)
Reuters – A U.S. Senate committee probing allegations that some for-profit schools push students into big debt and fail to educate them will likely introduce a bill tightening rules next year, Sen. Tom Harkin said on Thursday.
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Senators spar over for-profit education
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Android App Spygate: Tips to Put an End to Spying Apps (PC World)
PC World – Worried your Android apps are spying on you? You should be, according to a recent study that found several popular Android Apps regularly share your location and critical phone data such as your phone number with advertisers and others. Researchers from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University randomly selected 30 out of 358 popular apps from the Android Market for this study. The computer scientists were able to track each application’s behavior using a special monitoring program called TaintDroid developed by the researchers.
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Android App Spygate: Tips to Put an End to Spying Apps
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Have You Been Burned By Wall Street? (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – During his summer break from college, my son tried to sell me on the merits of the popular television series Burn Notice. In this TV drama, Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Westen, a former covert operative who unjustly receives a “burn notice”–an espionage-style termination that results in the immediate eradication of his assets and influence, leaving him isolated and alone.
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Have You Been Burned By Wall Street?
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Stop Trashing Teachers! (The Daily Beast)
The Daily Beast – Obama’s misguided policies and the overhyped doc Waiting For “Superman” have turned America against its teachers. Education expert Diane Ravitch on why the vitriol is so dangerous.
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Stop Trashing Teachers!
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5 Myths About Generation Debt (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – The term “generation debt” tends to get thrown around a lot when it comes to describing today’s young professionals. Media pundits–especially older ones who have long paid off their own student loans–like to point out that we carry a lot of debt and spend more than our paychecks. But is that really true? In my book Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back, which comes out in two weeks, I explain why we don’t deserve that label anymore. Here are five myths–and truths–about our generation and money.
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College Graduates’ Top Employers (BusinessWeek)
BusinessWeek – Having captured the hearts and minds of undergraduate business students, Google is still No. 1 in the latest Universum ranking of the most popular employers rated by young people. But it shouldn’t get too cocky: The competition is getting fiercer.
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College Graduates’ Top Employers
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