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1. N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin: Dunks are Sofa King unexpected (VIDEO)
(Sports/Professional)

... points while adding seven assists and five rebounds in a 99-92 victory over the Nets. On Monday night, the 2010 Harvard graduate became the first Ivy Leaguer to start an NBA game since Yalie Chris Dudley ...

2. Facebook IPO may break Google's $2 billion record
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... markets was suspended for shareholders for three days this past week, which at times helps a private company determine how many shareholders they have. Zuckerberg began Facebook from a dorm room in Harvard ...

3. New book by Corydon B. Dunham makes case against FCC censorship of news media
(U.S./Nation)

... and independent of government, it cannot act as a watchdog for the public, which is its constitutional role.” Corydon B. Dunham is a Harvard Law School graduate. His “Government Control of News” study ...

4. Christie calls for 10% state income tax cut for every New Jerseyan
(N.J./State)

... has received at hundreds of meetings with educators, parents and professionals around the state,” the governor said. “They are supported by independent research done at Harvard and Columbia. Most importantly, ...

5. Gov. Chris Christie 2012 State of the State Address
(N.J./State)

... thing. It means that for this generation of Americans, what you can achieve will be driven not by who you know, but by what you know. You need to look only at the recent Harvard/Columbia study of 2.5 ...

6. If Rutgers merges with UMDNJ, watch out Harvard
(N.J./State)

... that the university would be on a par with Harvard and Purdue. The merger would move Rutgers’ research and development spending up to 33rd in the nation from 54th, according to the Republic. A task ...

7. MLB decision not to ban smokeless tobacco use disappoints N.J. Rep. Pallone
(U.S./Nation)

... admire the players." Dr. Gregory Connelly of the Harvard School of Public Health informed the Committee that “There can be no doubt that public use by MLB players directly contributes to youth smokeless ...

8. The HPV vaccine and children: A grandmother's perspective
(Health/Healthquest)

... at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, kindly answered my questions on the vaccine, its importance, its efficacy, and her recommendations to ...

9. Steve Jobs died from alternative medicine
(Health/Healthquest)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A cancer expert from Harvard believes that the form of cancer suffered by Steve Jobs did not have to be fatal. Ramzi Amri, a Harvard medical school researcher, said, ...

10. Remembering the great stock market crash of 1929
(Money/Economy)

... by weakening a heretofore prosperous industry, the production of spirits.) “A severe depression … is outside the range of probability.” So said the Harvard Economic Society. Bernard Baruch was a famous ...

11. Standardized testing sex education: Could N.J. follow in D.C’s footsteps?
(Health/Healthquest)

...  Somewhat tongue in check, I suggested that Harvard require passage of the test as part of the admissions process: If the mother-of-all universities had such a requirement, then other universities would ...

12. 'Moneyball' is more than a sports movie
(Opinion/Commentary)

... "Moneyball," turned to Paul DePodesta, a young man with a degree in economics from Harvard and a laptop computer that crunched numbers and analyzed statistics about the players available in baseball’s ...

13. Elizabeth Warren is trouble for Scott Brown (VIDEO)
(U.S./Nation)

... an audience member at the event who was not part of Warren's exploratory campaign committee. Warren is a consumer advocate and Harvard law professor who recently left the Obama administration. ...

14. Morons who Boo
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... are not famous or graduates of Harvard or Yale. Our last two presidents were supposedly well educated and look how inept they were at thinking and common sense. When problems need to be solved do not go ...

15. Studies show exercise each day can keep the cancer away
(Health/Healthquest)

... adds about three years to our lives. These findings come on the heels of another new study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health, showing that small amounts of physical activity performed ...

16. Who is Alan Krueger?
(U.S./Nation)

... the nation's best economists." In particular, he cited Krueger's recent stint as chief economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. At Treasury, Harvard graduate Krueger was involved in programs ...

17. Kashif Parvaiz to get $2M before wife Nazish Noorani killed
(N.J./State)

... told friends Parvaiz graduated from Columbia University summa cum laude and wanted to go to Harvard. It is not clear if Martin Ragusa knew Parvaiz lied. Marguerite Ragusa, of Baldwin Harbor, claims the ...

18. Murder of Nazish Noorani led back to husband from start
(N.J./State)

... N.Y. native was reportedly attending Harvard as an architectural engineering graduate student. However, an official of the Ivy League University told ABC News they had not been able to locate a record ...

19. Same-sex marriage and ‘Unnatural Acts’ across the river from N.J.
(Life/Style)

...  Last Sunday, I crossed the river to see a play about another time and place where gay men faced horrible discrimination. “Unnatural Acts: Harvard’s Secret Court of 1920” is a powerful off-Broadway play ...

20. N.J. environmental groups take Christie's asthma to task
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Harvard Medical School evaluated 1,113 adults with asthma, all members of Kaiser, in Oregon, Washington or Colorado. When they questioned participants weight, height, smoking habits, other illness, asthma ...