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An earlier version of the Apr. 14 news article "Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation" incorrectly suggested that there is a total of 230 international students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In fact, the 230 figure refers to the approximate number of incoming international students each...
“Jeff [Tweedy, Wilco’s frontman and principal songwriter] has quipped more than once that for every new Wilco record, just enough people come on as jumped ship. There seems to be a sort of balance,” added Cline with a slight grin. Stirratt...
Meanwhile, deaths related to prescription-drug use in Florida rose from 2,780 in 2006 to 3,317 in 2007, and then to 3,750 in 2008. The last figure is equivalent to about 10 reported deaths a day. That's more than the number of fatalities from street drugs...
State senator Dave Aronberg, who represents part of South Florida and is sponsoring anti-pill-mill legislation, acknowledged that money is an unsolved matter. "There are grants to get it going. Then we have to figure out a recurring funding mechanism," he says. Action must be taken, he says, because...
Because mainland users have to climb the Great Firewall to access Twitter, they generally share an interest in issues of free speech, says Xiao. They discuss news in the unfiltered medium of Twitter and then repost information on mainland blogs and Twitter-like microblogging services. "It is not a fluke...