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LTI Announces Aurinko French Language Program Release (Popularity:  )
LTI Ltd. announces the availability of Aurinko Language Program , a unique program allowing users to study any language with custom learning options. Aurinko gives people a way to learn more naturally, hearing and speaking phrases as well as reading and writing them. Listening to native speakers is a great way to understand pronunciation and inflection and to truly absorb a language.
Developed with international cooperation, Aurinko's new version presents a ...
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Mature muscle fibers can revert to become cancerous, researchers find (Popularity: )
Mature muscle fibers, rather than their less-developed neighbors, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas have found. The research, performed in fruit flies, not only provides a clue to how the cancer arises, but also means that scientists can use the flies to search for other genes involved in the cancer. ...
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Victoria University Of Wellington Invests In A Century Of Science (Popularity: )
Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide scientific community, today announced that Victoria University of Wellington has become the fifth university in New Zealand to purchase the entire Web of Science(R) data collection.
Prior to 2005, Web of Science - the multidisciplinary bibliographic database, accessed via the ISI Web of Knowledge(SM) premier research platform - already offered an extensive collection of backfiles to 1945. ...
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Scopus Announces First-of-its-Kind Customized Institutional Resources and Digital Archive Searches (Popularity: )
Scopus(R), the world's largest abstract and citation database of research information and quality web sources, today announced that it is the first and only database of its kind to provide a fully customizable feature to its customers that enables users to search within selected repositories or subject specific digital archives within the Scopus interface. This new feature in Scopus, Selected Sources, allows customers to choose from a list of institutional ...
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DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial Teams Up with Chicago Cares to Renovate Two Chicago Public Schools (Popularity: )
Hundreds of employees from DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial are spending two days this week teaming up with Chicago Cares to renovate two public schools in Chicago.
Today, approximately 120 DaimlerChrysler Truck Financial employees will leave their laptops in Lisle and head to the Ella Flagg Young Elementary School in the North Austin area to paint nine classrooms and school hallways in addition to outside painting on the playground. Young Elementary School ...
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Millions Of Books For Free (Popularity: )
InstaBook Corporation announced today its new InstaBook Digital Libraries initiative to promote literacy around the world. In association with The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center and many other organizations, InstaBook.net has created a new service geared to libraries and other non-profit organizations. Visitors to the InstaBook.net website will be able to download for free any of nearly one hundred thousand titles and have them printed on demand at the nearest InstaBook ...
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EPA Awards $88,866 to Three Illinois Organizations for Environmental Education Programs (Popularity: )
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded a $43,345 grant to the Chicago Department of Environment, a $10,000 grant to the CSA Learning Center in Caledonia, Ill., and a $35,521 grant to Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Ill., for innovative environmental education projects.
The three Illinois groups are among 10 organizations in EPA's six-state Region 5 that received a total of $187,200 in environmental education grant money ...
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The Results Are In and They Are Bright for Students Using the Smart Way Reading and Spelling Program (Popularity: )
In less than forty-two hours of one-on-one tutoring, participating elementary school students within the School District of Lancaster (SDOL), PA, raised their reading proficiency scores by an average of 1.14 grade levels.
The grade-equivalent reading scores for alternative education middle school students in the same school district jumped 1.52 grades in only 27 hours.
In another part of the Commonwealth, 9th grade students at Chester High School showed a 1.3 ...
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Nelnet's LoanSTAR Promotes Hendee, Durstine to Lead Marketing Efforts (Popularity: )
Nelnet recently announced the promotions of Richard (Dick) Hendee to Senior Vice President Texas Market Development and Managing Director Strategic Sales Planning and George Durstine to National Director for Sales Development and CollEDGE Loans Brand Manager.
Hendee began his tenure with LoanSTAR in 1995. His responsibilities have ranged from managing national marketing efforts and lender/vendor relationships to working with President Bill Jeffery on strategic planning initiatives. Having begun his extensive ...
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Challenge Your Child to Say 'Picky Pretzel People Pick Pretzel Perfect Pretzels' This Summer to Win Auntie Anne's National Pretzel Perfect Tongue Twister Contest (Popularity: )
Kids nationwide will contort and twist their tongues this summer for a chance to win a $2,500 educational scholarship, a $500 shopping spree, a year's supply of Auntie Anne's pretzels and reign the National Pretzel Perfect Tongue Twisting Champion.
Between June 5 and July 23, kids age 6-12 years can submit a video or DVD of themselves reciting the tongue twister -- "Picky Pretzel People Pick Pretzel Perfect Pretzels." All ...
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