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1. Study: Rich people more prone to be unethical cheapskates
(Money/Economy)

The 99 percent usually portray the 1 percent at being dishonest, heartless and generally unscrupulous. Now, a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, supports that notion. "If ...

2. Farahi Resignation
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... high citation indices. My website www.eboehm.com documents my student research program at Kean. I served as PI and was awarded a $300,000 federal grant by the NSF which went to Kean. I had outstanding ...

3. Farahi Resignation
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... high citation indices. My website www.eboehm.com documents my student research program at Kean. I served as PI and was awarded a $300,000 federal grant by the NSF which went to Kean. I had outstanding ...

4. More completely pointless (and incorrect) statistics.
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In fact, market research firm Canalys revealed the difference would be about 2.5 percent more in price on average. According to PCMag.com, the survey said it would cost $374.37 to buy the top 100 purchased ...

5. Apps for Android vs. iPhone apps: Prices may surprise you
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A recent survey has found that owners of Android phones are probably paying higher costs for their apps than people using iPhones. In fact, market research firm ...

6. Christie's proposed budget offers tax cut 'gift' with twists
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the wrong direction. Richard C. Leone is the former President, currently a senior fellow, of the Twentieth Century Fund, a non-profit public policy research institution supporting work on U.S. foreign ...

7. Rick Santorum's views on Satan may scare off voters
(U.S./Nation)

... share among commissioned officers has jumped 4 percent to 16 percent, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.  The Pentagon wouldn’t comment directly on Santorum’s comments, but spokesman ...

8. NFL Scouting Combine, hypertension, and morbid obesity: Football is a tough career
(Sports/Professional)

... terrible consequences at the non-NFL level. According to football researcher Matt Chaney, who writes ChaneyBlog.com, there were 29 football related fatalities along with another 193 which fall into a ...

9. Scientists revive 31,000-year-old plant with seed squirreled in Siberia
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... this blast from the past has already gone viral in modern media, such as an ABC News report here. The researchers are crediting hard-working squirrels for their dramatic discovery. They believe the material ...

10. Apple iPad vs. iPhone 4S: Sales competition within the brand
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... line fell short of IHS estimates in the fourth quarter as many loyal Apple customers devoted their dollars to shiny new alternatives," said Rhoda Alexander, senior manager, tablet and monitor research ...

11. Full text of Gov. Christie’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Address
(Money/Economy)

... research. Let’s implement that plan. In our society, education is the key to advancement. More attainment in education is the path to more earnings and success in life. And a highly educated work force ...

12. Weight stigma can make you sick with stress: Exercise is the best remedy
(Health/Healthquest)

Doctors and nutritionists generally agree that obesity increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, certain kinds of cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and is associated with shortened life spans. But research ...

13. The people are speaking
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Most folks in NJ see what a bad idea this is! It's opposed by 71% of residents of South New Jersey--the region that will lose its rightful access to the state's world-class research university, Rutgers, ...

14. Christie must remove Kean University’s President Dawood Farahi
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY SALVATORE PIZZURO COMMENTARY Academic integrity is a hallmark of the credibility of any university. The standards for academic achievement and scholarly research must be universally expected of ...

15. A study of rhetoric: John Mercer Langston and African-American politicians in postbellum south
(U.S./Nation)

... studies the rhetoric of postbellum black politicians. According to his research, if Langston needed confirmation of the everyday horrors facing Southern blacks, “he need look no further than the lynch ...

16. Dangerous arsenic in brown rice: Not just apple juice, says researchers
(Health/Healthquest)

... researchers found that the foods which contained brown rice syrup had higher quantities of arsenic than those without the syrup. Jackson and his team used foods purchased via the internet or in stores ...

17. Vodka can boost problem solving and creativity, finds study
(Health/Healthquest)

... creative after imbibing, researcher Jennifer Wiley was quoted as saying on Gizmodo.com. "A composer or artist fixated on previous work may indeed find creative benefits from intoxication," Wiley said. ...

18. Prohibition has failed miserably!
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... Asia and Afghanistan and Cocaine from Central America has been well documented by the 1989 Kerry Committee report, academic researchers Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott, and the late journalist Gary Webb. * ...

19. Poll finds Rutgers-Camden and Rowan merger may be Christie's most unpopular proposal
(N.J./State)

... the merger of Rowan in Glassboro with Rutgers University–Camden into an institution that would be known as Rowan University. Christie wants to see the proposed institution be positioned for public research ...

20. Public offering for Empire State Building worth $2.5 billion
(Money/Economy)

... tax-free, and provide better protection against inflation. Philip Martin, director of REIT research at investment resource Morningstar, told SmartMoney that the building is not in the most desirable ...