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1. Rutgers University will not disaffiliate from Fair Labor Association despite students' request
(N.J./State)

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM NEW BRUNSWICK–Party hats came off yesterday after Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick  announced that the University will not disaffiliate ...

2. 8 struggling New Jersey hospitals to share $30M in state aid
(Health/Healthquest)

... $3.5 million, and East Orange General Hospital, Kimball Medical Center, Raritan Bay Medical Center and University Hospital will each receive $1 million. Stabilization aid provides support to health care ...

3. Life expectancy for women shows decline: Blame stress!
(Health/Healthquest)

... and Evaluation, a health research center at the University of Washington, shows that different parts of the country are showing varying rates of decrease. Overall, in the years between 1989 and 2009, the ...

4. Teen depression diagnosed in blood test may remove social stigma
(Health/Healthquest)

BY TERI GATTO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Northwestern University researchers have developed a blood test that can help diagnose depression in teens, according to  a recent article published in the ...

5. 'We Were an Island': N.J.'s Peter Blanchard tells story of couple escaping technology and conserving nature
(Opinion/Commentary)

... published by the University Press of New England, go to www.upne.com/1584658603.html. To learn more about Peter Blanchard’s efforts to convert Greenwood Gardens into one of the Garden State's most ...

6. District 36 Legislators address recreational needs of people with disabilities
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Developmental Disabilities from Columbia University and an advanced degree in Disability Law from New York Law School. RECENT COLUMNS BY SALVATORE PIZZURO More families react: Christie's proposal to ...

7. Ancient woman gladiator statue is topless: 'Real Housewives of Ancient Greece'
(World/International)

... salute to the people, a pose a winning gladiator might make. Or maybe she had just kicked her teenager’s butt for wrecking the chariot. Anna McCullough, a professor at Ohio State University who has ...

8. Obama's favorability rating climbs to 56% among New Jersey voters
(N.J./State)

President Obama maintains a majority positive job rating in New Jersey and has improved his prospects for picking up New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes in November, according to a Monmouth University/NJ ...

9. Christie goes after Lautenberg on toll payment
(N.J./State)

... to his opposition to a Rowan University takeover of Rutgers Camden, which the governor has proposed. Lautenberg has asked U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to examine the proposed merger. "As a ...

10. Chris Christie as potential Romney running mate could account for poll disparities
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY PATRICK MURRAY COMMENTARY There have been a couple of queries about Gov. Christie’s poll ratings released by Monmouth University/NJ Press Media this week compared to the numbers put out by Quinnipiac ...

11. Stick with green veggies but add 'black foods' rich in antioxidants
(Opinion/Commentary)

... BLACK!  According to Cy Lee, PhD, a professor of food chemistry at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York “black foods have more antioxidants than light colored foods because of their high pigment ...

12. Kentucky Wildcats’ starting five players choose NBA draft as a team
(Sports/Professional)

... to the University of Kentucky because he was one of the youngest players in Division I having turned 18 in September. Contrary to her wishes, he has other plans in store for her. “I want to spoil my ...

13. Alcohol: The key to creative problem-solving?
(Life/Style)

... with problem-solving tasks. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) found that moderate alcohol consumption can lessen one’s ability to pay attention to definitive details but allows ...

14. Equal Pay Day slips by quietly: Will the wage gap ever close?
(Money/Economy)

...  And where you live just may mean the difference of earning a lot less. New data from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) found the gap between men and women’s wages differs greatly ...

15. Pulitzer Prize 2012 awarded to a few surprises: See who was left out
(U.S./Nation)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York on Monday, and they featured two first-time winners. The Huffington Post reported that ...

16. San Diego scientist uses laws of physics to defy traffic ticket
(U.S./Nation)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Did you ever wonder what you would do with a lot of the things you learned in school? A physicist at the University of California in San Diego has used his knowledge ...

17. 'Tent State X: Occupy Rutgers': Pallone supports students
(N.J./State)

... higher education during the Rutgers University’s 10th annual “Tent State X: Occupy Rutgers." While some students traveled to class, others pitched tents for the weeklong event to protest student debt ...

18. Mitt Romney's VP can be Chris Christie or Rob Portman for Pa. and Oh. swing states
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Meadowlands Commission. He currently serves on the political science faculty of Monmouth University. RECENT COLUMNS BY ALAN J. STEINBERG 50 years ago : The Green Bay Packers dynasty began at the N.Y. ...

19. Coe, Impreveduto among Monmouth football opportunists during spring scrimmage
(Sports/Professional)

... at the end of today’s first spring scrimmage for Monmouth University football at Kessler Field that resonate so much for him, and others in the same predicament. And do not be mistaken, the head coach ...

20. Monmouth football's Mike Upham using spring to educate young defense
(Sports/Professional)

BY JEREMY SCHILLING NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. --   As Monmouth University football continues spring practice and prepares for their first formal scrimmage on Saturday, ...