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50th annual Belleville Field Day set for July 14 (Southern Illinois University System)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
Southern Illinois University System) ... • Managing Nitrogen for Corn, with Emerson Nafziger, professor of crop sciences, University of Illinois, and U of I Extension agronomist ... • UAV Applications and Research in Agriculture for the 21st Century, with Chris Clemons, assistant professor of agriculture education at Auburn University....

Rajasthan: After almost 5-decade legal battle, 81-yr-old gets varsity gold medal

Edit Indian Express 24 Jun 2016
Rajasthan University V-C J P Singhal hands over a citation to Singhvi (second from right) in Jaipur Thursday ... Nearly half a century ago, Ajeet Singh Singhvi, then a 34-year-old Rajasthan Administrative Services officer, attended LLB evening classes at Government Dungar College, Bikaner ... University spokesperson Bhupendra Singh Shekhawat said....

Supreme Court gets it right on race, but how much does it matter?

Edit CNN 24 Jun 2016
(CNN)In a bit of a surprise, the Supreme Court, on a 4-3 vote, upheld a lower court ruling allowing the University of Texas to use race as one of many factors in its admissions process. The decision, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, beat back a claim by Abigail Fisher, a white woman who argued she was unfairly not admitted to the university because of her race ... Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan....

Park Service project shares stories of women along Route 66

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 24 Jun 2016
A fellow at the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research, Donatella Davanzo, has been working to document every building along Route 66 in Albuquerque, home to the largest uninterrupted segment of the road left in an urban area....

Pre-dawn Quran readings stoke fears over Istanbul's Hagia Sophia

Edit Kashmir Observer 24 Jun 2016
A masterpiece of architecture, the Hagia Sophia was first built as a church in the sixth century in the Christian Byzantine Empire ... It became a secular museum in a key reform of the new post-Ottoman Turkish authorities under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1930s, making the Hagia Sophia universal heritage for peoples of all faiths....

Tip sheet: Zika outbreak likely to hit U.S.; protection is key, Mason experts say (George Mason University)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
George Mason University). A vaccine against the Zika virus won't be available for more than a year, prompting George Mason University experts to stress preventative measures as the best protection ... Kathyrn Jacobsen is an epidemiologist in George Mason University's Department of Global and Community Health ... George Mason University is Virginia's largest public research university....

Cubs, Joe Maddon not caught up in history

Edit Palm Beach Post 24 Jun 2016
But, hey, something has to account for a bad century-plus ... Heck, the Cubs’ futility now surpasses the Cleveland Cavaliers’, who have had more championship parades in the past two days than the Cubs have had in more than a century ... Catcher David Ross, a former University of ... Something many would argue the Cubs have done for most of the past century....

Banking, like gravity, has one unchanging law

Edit The Times of India 24 Jun 2016
The philosophy is universal - it applies to companies and citizens in equal measure ... There are probably more economic theories than economists.But certain truths are same across the universe - whether you study at Madras University , or Harvard -like the law of gravity ....

Fast Takes: How Bibi stays on top, a campus coverup, and more notable commentary

Edit New York Post 24 Jun 2016
Six Clemson University students, writing on FITSNews.com, say their Freedom of Information Act request yielded documents showing college officials knew from the start that an incident that sparked a nine-day campus protest last April was not racist, as alleged ... as a ‘teachable moment’ ” that “traumatized and publicly embarrassed the university.”....

'Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars - Volume One' book review

Edit The Examiner 24 Jun 2016
When Gene Roddenberry’s original “Star Trek” television aired in the late 1960s, the show’s writers still thought of the late 20th Century and early 21st Centuries as the far-off future ... Because “Star Trek” (unlike George Lucas’s “Star Wars”) is set in our future, its writers could not blithely ignore the last decade of the 20th Century and the dawn of the 21st....

Film Review Independence Day Resurgence

Edit The Oklahoman 24 Jun 2016
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox ......

Three Elements of Japanese Creativity (Fleishman-Hillard Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
(Source. Fleishman-Hillard Inc) ... emojis ... the public one and the inner child ... Tetsuya mentioned the first emoji was found in a manuscript from the 18 century, representing an umbrella in the middle of a text. But the most interesting thing to see is how emojis became so universal. Tetsuya showed a study from the Wareda University's department of human sciences that explained how emojis are perceived differently from one country to another....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ After-Credits Scene: Is It Worth Staying Until The Very End To Of ...

Edit Inquisitr 24 Jun 2016
Marvel is great at these, utilizing two different end-credits scenes to each of its movies to give viewers a glimpse of the superhero movies set to come next in the ever-expanding universe ... Its ensemble cast and city-wide destruction anticipated the 21st century wave of effects-driven blockbusters ... it’s used a lot in the Marvel universe....
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