Donald Bockler, at 64; science teacher and tour guide Oct 7, 2008
Vaughn said Mr. Bockler brought cutting-edge science into his classroom by attending workshops at Genzyme Corp. and the Whitehead Institute, both in Cambridge. Though he retired in 2004, his wife said, Mr. Bockler continued to teach at Harvard Extension School and filled in at Concord-Carlisle High School. (Boston Globe)
Xchanging makes offer for Cambridge Oct 6, 2008
Xchanging makes open offer for Cambridge Solutions- Infotech-The Economic Times ... Xchanging makes open offer for Cambridge Solutions6 Oct, 2008, 1056 hrs IST, REUTERS ... MUMBAI: British outsourcing group Xchanging Plc and its Mauritius unit have made an open offer to acquire 20 per cent of Cambridge Solutions Ltd at 81. (India Times)
UK BPO to buy Cambridge Oct 5, 2008
Xchanging to acquire Cambridge for 83 mn pounds- ITeS-Infotech-The Economic Times ... Xchanging to acquire Cambridge for 83 mn pounds5 Oct, 2008, 0350 hrs IST, ET Bureau ... BANGALORE: Xchanging Plc, the UK headquartered BPO major, has announced its intention to acquire 75% stake in the Bangalore-based IT/ITES firm Cambridge Solutions in a cash-cum-share deal valued at 83 million pounds (around Rs 689 crore). (India Times)
Sports Blogs Oct 3, 2008
Keswick Christian at Cambridge Christian All take Keswick Christian. (0). (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- Sports)
Week 6 Boasts Heavyweight Matchups Oct 3, 2008
Marshall at Cambridge. Wisconsin Heights at Belleville/Albany. (The Insiders -- Wisconsin Prep)
AARP: Cornell University Tops 2008 List Of Best Employers For Workers Over 50 Sep 24, 2008
" In addition, there are weight loss workshops and stress management programs. The university's wellness program also provides access to five fitness centers on campus, an ice skating rink and several swimming pools, along with group fitness and nutrition classes. Cornell's forward-thinking policies, in addition to its wellness programs, include flexible arrangements such as flextime, compressed work weeks and telecommuting; a formal phased retirement program for faculty; a robust retiree health... (PR Newswire)
AARP Names Four California Employers as Best Employers for Workers Over 50 Sep 24, 2008
2008 Best Employers Winners Rank, Company Name City, State 1 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 2 Scripps Health San Diego, CA 3 S. C. Johnson Inc. Racine, WI 4 The YMCA of Greater Rochester Rochester, NY 5 Lee Memorial Health System Fort Myers, FL 6 Securian St. Paul, MN 7 First Horizon National Corporation Memphis, TN 8 Stanley Consultants Muscatine, IA 9 Bon Secours Richmond Health System Richmond, VA 10 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Chicago, IL 11 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD... (PR Newswire)
Pollution-Credit Trading Opens in 10 U.S. States as Global Warming Remedy Sep 23, 2008
Around the world, cap-and-trade ``is emerging as the preferable solution'' to fight climate change, according to , director of the in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carbon Tax Alternative. (Bloomberg -- US)
Travel briefs Sep 21, 2008
Closer to home, there are events all over the United States, from shofar-blowing in San Diego to Rosh Hashanah services and a holiday dinner in Cambridge, Mass. Most services are free or can be attended for a small fee. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Frost: Getting a grip on the modern world Sep 19, 2008
she has launched two institutes the Institute for Food and Development Policy in California, and, with her daughter and co-worker Anna, the Small Planet Institute, based in Cambridge (where she now lives). Nor does her r. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Scoreboard For Sept. 17, 2008 Sep 17, 2008
Cambridge (2-0), 7, def. Sandy Creek 54-12, Chase County. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Week 4 Football Schedule Sep 17, 2008
Cambridge at Poynette (NC) ... Cambridge at Poynette (NC). (The Insiders -- Wisconsin Prep)
Warner Bros. Records Partners with Doghouse to Sign Electro-Pop Artist LIGHTS Label to Release Debut EP from Young Canadian Songstress on September 23rd, 2008 Sep 16, 2008
Records Partners with Doghouse to Sign Electro-Pop Artist LIGHTS Label to Release Debut EP from Young Canadian Songstress on September 23rd, 2008: Financial News - Yahoo. Records Partners with Doghouse to Sign Electro-Pop Artist LIGHTS Label to Release Debut EP from Young Canadian Songstress on September 23rd, 2008Monday September 15, 6:52 pm ET. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Poetic Identity Sep 7, 2008
What's more, the Earthworks books have become among Salt's best-sellers, prompting the press, in Cambridge, to add more titles to its catalog of Native poetry. If the books are doing so well, you're probably wondering, why haven't I heard of them. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Updated guidelines for stem cell research released Sep 6, 2008
RICHARD O. HYNES, PH.D.1, 2 (CO-CHAIR) Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Daniel K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge ... JOSHUA R. SANES, PH.D.2 Professor Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Paul J. Finnegan Family Director Center for Brain Science Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. (EurekAlert!)
Terps-Blue Raiders game schedule... Sep 2, 2008
7 FM - Washington D.C.; WCEM AM 1240 - Cambridge; WBEY 97. 9 FM - Crisfield; WGOP AM 540 - Crisfield; WTBO AM 1450 - Cumberland; WFMD AM 930 - Frederick; WARK AM 1490 - Hagerstown; WPTX 1690 AM - Lexington Park, Md. (Umterps.com)
Naturejobs podcast Aug 29, 2008
Heike Laman from the University of Cambridge discusses the pros and cons of doing a PhD in the UK versus the US.. The Source Event Part 3 Audio (mp3 file). (Nature News Service)
And then there were two? Aug 28, 2008
cambridge (1 post) and birmingham (1 post). 33,291 per annum. (Yahoo News -- Presidential Election 2000)
Ecstasy harms brain on first use, study finds Aug 28, 2008
cambridge, uk or san francisco, usa. Depending on experience. (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)
US Cable to Launch Big Ten Network Aug 22, 2008
They will also offer the Big Ten Network in HD on the HD Plus level of service in Cambridge, Minn. and Wabasha, Minn. (Nusports.com)
previous questions and answers Aug 19, 2008
Steve From, Cambridge, Minn ... -- Steve From, Cambridge, Minn. (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- Sports)
Tied up over disclosure Aug 13, 2008
"I am not so much worried about Genzyme or the drug industry in Massachusetts as about academic medical centers," said Roger Louis, chief compliance officer for the Cambridge biotechnology company, adding that it's unclear what the final rules will say. Last week, Idec Inc.'s top research executive, Cecil Pickett, warned Patrick the new law could potentially force the Cambridge biotech company to disclose exactly how much it pays doctors on staff, compromising "confidential salary information,"... (Boston Globe)
On the path of the righteous Aug 10, 2008
Katherine A. Powers lives in Cambridge. Her column appears on alternate Sundays. (Boston Globe)
Can't get There from Here-Raise the roof Aug 2, 2008
Jeffrey R. Parenti, P.E., is a civil engineer for the City of Cambridge and lives in town. His address is cantgettherefromhere@comcast. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Fired MnDOT official now at Homeland Security Jul 31, 2008
that day she was at an authorized leadership conference in Cambridge, Mass. One of her Minnesota colleagues who was also at the conference quickly returned to the Twin Cities but Pitt finished the conference and then flew Aug. 4 to Washington, where she stayed until Aug. 11. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Obituaries for Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Jul 15, 2008
Melissa (Scott) Heinig of Cambridge, Wis. Aaron (Kara) Hass, Ceilia and Gray Martin, Kaitlin and Claire Guentner, all of La Crosse; seven great-grandchildren, Carrissa and Carson (children of Clint), Brianna, Hunter and Mason (children of Jesse), Aubrey and Drew (children of Aaron). (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Grab your lawn chair. Float away. Jul 13, 2008
Taking off from Bend, Oregon, Couch drifted 235 miles to Cambridge, Idaho, in about nine hours. It was his third "cluster balloon" excursion since 2006. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Jonelle Streed Joins Women's Basketball Coaching Staff Jul 13, 2008
Streed previously coached the St. Cloud Comets AAU team for two years and also served as a camp counselor at the St. Cloud State University, Cambridge Isanti High School (Minn ... A native of Cambridge, Minn ... In high school, Streed was a Minnesota Miss Basketball Finalist and set the Cambridge-Isanti High School record for career points with 1,799. (Muredhawks.com)
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind Jul 8, 2008
Julius Pretterebner, director of the Global Oil Group at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, says getting 15% to 20% of the USA's cars to run on natural gas in some cases, in mixtures with other fuels in dual-fuel vehicles by 2020 would be an outstanding achievement, and doing that will require federal support to expand the necessary infrastructure. Powering vehicles with compressed or liquefied natural gas, CNG or LNG, has been Pickens' pet project since the late 1980s. (USA Today -- Money)
US giant puts up $5m to trap hackers Jul 7, 2008
central london or cambridge. Competitive. (Yahoo News -- Computer Viruses & Worms)
Media maestro Clay Felker dies at 82 Jul 3, 2008
In addition to Sheehy, Mr. Felker is survived by a sister, Charlotte Gallagher; a daughter, Mohm Sheehy of Cambridge, Mass. a stepdaughter, Maura Sheehy of Brooklyn; and three stepgrandchildren. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Two lanes closed on Longfellow Bridge Jun 28, 2008
Federal highway officials, dissatisfied with the state's oversight of truck restrictions on the deteriorated Longfellow Bridge, shut down two lanes effective today, narrowing a major thoroughfare between Boston and Cambridge. The Federal Highway Administration also asked the state to ban large trucks from the bridge completely - rather than barring them only from the inner lanes. (Boston Globe)
Scholars for June 19, 2008 Jun 19, 2008
Maynard/Stow - Cambridge School of Weston. Laura Dickson, daughter of Heidrun and Mark Dickson of Maynard, graduated from The Cambridge School of Weston on June 6, 2008. (Beacon Villager, MA)
How gays' attitudes toward marriage evolved Jun 16, 2008
Hyde was married in Cambridge, Mass. in 2004 and said she and her wife have the second marriage license that was issued in the United States to a same-sex couple. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
A zany cartoon debut for an animated pair Jun 8, 2008
It centers on a fictionalized version of the brothers' car repair shop in Cambridge, where some characters glug motor oil in coffee cups and a local politician is named Marty Bezzle. (The campaign button reads "M. Bezzle."). (Boston Globe)
Tornado damages Minnesota towns Jun 7, 2008
Flooding forced the evacuation of about a dozen homes in the central Iowa town of Cambridge, but areas to the southwest saw some of their roads and buildings re-emerge from subsiding waters in a much-needed respite from severe weather. Heavy rains that began Thursday night seeped into most basements and at least one foundation collapsed, said Lori Morrissey, Story County's emergency management coordinator. (CNN)
Green cleaner cuts grease, and costs Jun 3, 2008
Electrolyzer, which employs six and contracts with local firms for manufacturing, so far has installed its system in about 75 businesses and institutions, including the Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Cambridge, and the Alabama Health and Human Services lab ... In addition to the Colonnade and Seaport, Electrolyzer has installed systems at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, and the Sheraton Boston, New England's biggest... (Boston Globe)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Grills James Watson on Race and Genetics Jun 3, 2008
How Watson and Crick, working at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, became the first scientists to identify this elusive structure is the stuff of drama, especially when we recall that Watson was just 25 years old when he and Crick published their findings in the journal Nature on April 25, 1953. Though Watson would tell me that he had a rather low IQ, as proof that IQ tests aren't really that important, he enrolled at the University of Chicago when he was merely 15 and... (Slate)
Words of War May 27, 2008
A: I think Gerhard Weinberg's "A World at Arms" (1994: Cambridge University Press). It's a single-volume (1,208-page) history of World War II. What's so good about it is, he looks at it in a holistic fashion, so we understand for the first time how the Balkan uprising affected German war plans. (Townhall.com)
Motivational speaker faces attempted murder charges May 23, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS A popular motivational speaker from rural Cambridge who used his life story as a morality tale to warn kids about the dangers of drugs is in jail, facing nine felony charges for allegedly going on an alcohol- and methamphetamine-fueled shooting spree. KMSP-TV reported Thursday that Russell Simon Jr., 45, was arrested May 15 and is now being held in the Isanti County Jail with bail set at a high $1 million due to allegedly threatening phone calls he had made to his family from jail. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Sculpt Siouxland introduces a new streetscape May 18, 2008
Artist, hometown: Sondra Jonson, Cambridge, Neb. Location: Fourth and Pierce, southeast corner. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
How Body Size Is Regulated May 12, 2008
Both scientists work at the Broad Institute of the MIT and the Harvard University, Cambridge. All investigators are part of the recently formed international consortium to study height and obesity-related traits (GIANT, Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits). (Science Daily)
Platypus' wacky genome a window to evolution Quirks include 10 chromosomes... May 10, 2008
"We're going to be using the platypus genome for the next 50 years," said Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, which was involved in the analysis. "The platypus gives us a perspective that is deep in time, that tells us what was going on 170 million years ago, when all these traits were being developed," Birney said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
CCAS Announces New Products, Installations May 10, 2008
Papers in Minnesota are The Kanabec County Times in Mora, The Star in Cambridge, the Pine City Pioneer, and the Country Messenger in Scandia. Those in Wisconsin are the Burnett County Sentinel in Grantsburg, and the Sun in Osceola. (MediaWeek.com)
Differing views on measure to end rent control May 8, 2008
The best real-life example of what happens after rent control is eliminated is Massachusetts, where a state ballot measure in 1994 outlawed such statutes in Boston, Brookline and Cambridge. A subsequent study of Cambridge by economist Henry Pollakowski, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, found that the elimination of rent control did spark investment in previously regulated properties ... A survey by a large Cambridge landlord found rents on previously... (San Francisco Chronicle)
See who's marching when! May 3, 2008
It is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. New members will be inducted in October. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Indian steelmaker to buy US firm May 2, 2008
Page last updated at 15:42 GMT, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:42 UK. Global demand for steel is growing. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Of myths and men May 2, 2008
Physicist Frank Wilczek at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge dismissed this idea as incredible, but at the same time he raised a new possibility: the creation of another super-dense, stable form of matter called a strangelet that could also be regarded as a potential Earth-eater. In a scholarly article published in 2000, Wilczek and several colleagues analysed all the putative risks posed by the RHIC, and concluded that none posed the slightest real danger. (Nature News Service)
Preserving world's books is a real page turner May 2, 2008
Book Search has the support of many publishers, authors and librarians, including Cambridge University Press and Wisdom Publications. But some publishers and authors have sued, claiming the service violates their copyrights. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Moffitt: Don’t blame ethanol for high gas prices Apr 23, 2008
Donald Moffitt following Monday s press conference in Cambridge ... CAMBRIDGE Ethanol has been getting too much blame for rising costs ... Don Moffitt said he thought he was preaching to the choir at a press conference at the Farm Bureau office in Cambridge Monday. (Kewanee Star Courier, IL)
Media-shy Scalia shows openness Apr 18, 2008
At Cambridge, he met Maureen McCarthy, a Radcliffe student. They married and had nine children. (USA Today)
66 comments Apr 16, 2008
Mr. Johnson, a writer and medical researcher in Cambridge, Mass. is a regular contributor to HUMAN EVENTS. His column generally appears on Tuesdays. (Human Events Online)
Celebrations Apr 16, 2008
Nearly 50 years ago, Marty and Sylvia Silverman, a young Cambridge couple and now longtime Westwood residents, bought a former sporting camp in central Maine and began Camp Kippewa for Girls. The private overnight camp, still owned by the Silverman family, is observing the milestone with a 50th anniversary alumnae weekend, Aug. 10-12. (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
The Thursday Inside Scoop Apr 4, 2008
Dr. Paul Schlemach, curator of Harvard's Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass. and foreman for the twelve-member excavation project, said the team of scientists has plausible reason to believe the bone once belonged to Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. (Oregon Sports -- Rivals.com)
Cahow grew into her role Mar 20, 2008
But to appease her stepfather, who had spent some time in Cambridge and was convinced she would like Harvard, she went on one last official recruiting visit. "I fell in love with it," Cahow said. (Boston Globe)
Polaroid's entrepreneurial legacy Mar 16, 2008
In Watertown and Cambridge, clusters of Polaroid alumni work on next-generation display technology at QD Vision Inc. and E Ink Corp. And at Konarka Technologies Inc. in Lowell, about a third of the employees list Polaroid on their resumes, and the company also owns some secondhand Polaroid laboratory gear and coating machinery, purchased "for ten cents on the dollar," says Russell Gaudiana, Konarka's vice president of research and development. Gaudiana spent 27 years at Polaroid. (Boston Globe)
'Sleepwalking' star is anything but Mar 9, 2008
"She's like that. Direct. Theron said some weeks ago she'd be watching the Oscars in her jammies at home this year. If you're not nominated, she reasoned, why go?Theron, pronounced "Troon" with a rolled "r" in her native Afrikaans, is in Cambridge for another day after the Pudding rodeo to publicize her new movie, "Sleepwalking," a grim indie about a wreck of a family that opens here Friday.The woman is a serious actor and a strong feminist, but you can't reach any of that until you've... (Boston Globe)
Department of Health: No theater loophole Mar 7, 2008
But the lawyer from the Isanti county seat of Cambridge who argues that the theater exemption is a full-blown loophole says it is strange for the Department of Health to issue a legal opinion. Normally, the Attorney General s Office handles legal matters for state government. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
At 36, Wherley is oldest rower at English race Mar 6, 2008
LONDON (AP) -- American rower Michael Wherley will become the oldest competitor in the 179-year history of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, taking the record from a man who caused an American mutiny 21 years ago ... " Wherley, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was part of the U.S. men's eights that won three consecutive world championships from 1997-99. The University of Minnesota graduate is also a seven-time U.S. national champion and has competed in two Olympics. He is studying financial economics at... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
Department of Health says there is no theater loophole Mar 6, 2008
But the lawyer from the Isanti County seat of Cambridge who argues that the theater exemption is a loophole says it is strange for the Department of Health to issue a legal opinion and not the state Attorney General s Office. I m waiting for tomorrow to see if the Attorney General s Office will give out flu shots, said lawyer Mark Benjamin. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
Breakfast 'keeps teenagers lean' Mar 6, 2008
In a study of nearly 7,000 middle-aged people in Norfolk, a team from Cambridge University found that those who ate the most in the morning put on the least amount of weight. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
MN Health Dept. pulls curtain on smoke-ban loophole Mar 6, 2008
Mark Benjamin, a Cambridge lawyer who helped draw bar owners' attention to the exemption, didn't immediately return a phone message. One of the law's legislative sponsors, Rep. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Conn. Officials Solve Postcard Myste00001707ry Mar 4, 2008
James Merrill, 85, grew up in East Sumner and was so intrigued that he sent a copy of a Connecticut Post story about Marks' conclusions to his daughter, Jan Merrill-Oldham, a preservationist librarian at Harvard University who lives in Cambridge, Mass. She quickly recognized the handwriting on the postcard. (CBS News)
Musher in wheelchair realizes dream trip Mar 3, 2008
Those dreams took a detour after a series of hard times fell upon Brown, but we caught up with her in Cambridge, Minn ... Home: Cambridge, Minn. (Anchorage Daily News)
Husband to sue after wife drowned in hospital bath Feb 28, 2008
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