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1. Scientists learning about climate change by studying the Arctic’s Intuit people
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... further accelerating anthropogenic global warming. And the melting of the ice sheet in Greenland could raise sea levels by seven meters, explained environmental biologist Stephen Schneider from Stanford ...

2. Tiger Woods injured in accident after car hits hydrant, tree
(Sports/Professional)

... this week after attending the Stanford-Cal football game. – NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM  ...

3. Drugs and a movie: ‘Fix' a hectic, hilarious and timely journey
(Entertainment/Movies)

... unconscious – before jumping out the window. MK-ULTRA experiments may have had other side effects. Ken Kesey participated while at Stanford, and became a best-selling author and drug advocate. Theodore ...

4. U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Washington Redskins case
(U.S./Nation)

... to shift away from American Indian nicknames at college really picked up steam in the 1970s, when student groups or civil rights organisations called for change. In that decade Stanford University, St. ...

5. Christie names Richard Bagger, Robert E. Grady to chair a task force on New Jersey’s fiscal challenges
(N.J./State)

... Capital Association in 2006-2007 and as a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business from 1994-2004. — TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM  ...

6. Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pa. holds evidence of civilization 16,000 years ago
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... pre-Paleo-Indians who had arrived in North America long before the Gauls conquered France, before the Great Pyramids of Giza were built and before farming began in the Fertile Crescent. Dennis Stanford, ...

7. New Jersey universities' sex health grades are slipping
(Life/Style)

... came out on top this year, followed by last year's number one, Stanford. Despite the deliberate equation of health services with sporting events, the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card looks at serious ...

8. New Jersey’s child prodigies finding a home at Rutgers
(Life/Style)

... by serving their needs," Hough said. "We recognize most of them are thinking Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and that's OK. If they do stay, we'll be delighted. They are brilliant kids." While child prodigies ...

9. President McCormick’s State of Rutgers annual address
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Some of the nation's most distinguished private universities have seen a 25% drop in the value of their endowments. Stanford has cancelled or delayed more than $1 billion in proposed construction projects. ...

10. Rutgers men’s and women’s basketball tickets on sale
(Sports/Professional)

...  Sunday November 15 STANFORD RAC 2:00 PM Tuesday November 17 KEAN RAC 7:30 PM Thursday November 19 BOSTON COLLEGE RAC 7:30 PM Sunday November 22 Georgia Athens, Ga. TBA Thursday November ...

11. Sen. Barbara Buono wants to ban smoking in New Jersey parks, on beaches
(N.J./State)

... New York City's health commissioner recently recently announced a plan to ban smoking in public parks and on city beaches. A Stanford University study published in the Journal of the Air and Waste Management ...

12. Kamara leads Rutgers men’s soccer to victory in season opener
(Sports/Professional)

... is a good team and they're going to win a lot of ball games this year." The Scarlet Knights return home for another major soccer clash when they host west coast power Stanford on Friday, Sept. 4, at ...

13. Camp Tecumseh brings salvation to New Jersey kids
(N.J./State)

... wall decorations out of bars of soap and yarn, under Cornell's direction. "I came for first time last year," said Connie Stanford, a 72-year-old Burlington resident. "For a whole year I've been waiting ...

14. UMDNJ researcher finds Europe ahead of U.S. in global drug discovery
(Health/Healthquest)

... the United States. "One implication is simply that American research teams need to figure out why they are not as productive," Light said. He is also the current Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford ...

15. The official Iran policy of the United States is being pulled in different directions
(World/International)

... on the nuclear issue. "We will not have a resolution of the nuclear issue unless we have a democratic system in Iran," said Abbas Milani, a professor at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford ...

16. A journey from rural Montana to Wall Street and beyond
(Life/Style)

... to pursue something he had missed in his youth, a good formal education. He set his sights on Stanford University, took courses at a community college, and then sat for the SAT, or Scholastic Aptitude ...

17. Princeton-led research offers new insights, and a new angle, on high-temperature superconductivity
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... graduate student Kenjiro Gomes, now at Stanford University. The team also included Shimpei Ono of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, and Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu and Genda ...

18. Inventor Ray Kurzweil is profiled in Documentary 'Transcendent Man'
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... views, including that of Dr. William B. Hurlbut, a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University. "We shouldn't just arrogantly think we have transcended the wisdom of thousands of years of human experience," ...

19. Fraud in Academia: Let's call it grade inflation
(U.S./Nation)

... Eighty percent of the grades given at the University of Illinois are A’s and B’s. Fifty percent of students at Columbia University are on the Dean’s list. At Stanford University, where F grades used to ...

20. Michael M. Shapiro:
('Uncategorised Content')

Michael, Chief Executive Officer and Editor of TheAlternativePress.com, the State of New Jersey's all-online hyperlocal daily newspaper, is an attorney with degrees from Stanford Law School and Rutgers ...