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No. 16 Temple 61, Saint Joseph's 51 (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - WASHINGTON - Candice Dupree had 12 points and five rebounds to help No. 16 Temple beat Saint Joseph's 61-51 Saturday in the Atlantic 10 tournament, extending the Owls' winning streak to 22 games. |
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Water: The New Oil? (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - Water is becoming more than a precious natural resource. If corporate water mongers have their way it will soon be one of the planet's most expensive commodities. |
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MercedSun-Star.com :: Merced News, Homes, Jobs, Cars and more (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - Fang-Face writes "Life Is Funny, by E.R. Frank, pulled a novel from the library shelves of two Merced, California, middle schools this past week. The Merced Sun-Star has an article about the incident. The action was taken unilaterally by Merced City School District Assistant Superintendent RoseMary Duran who ordered the removal of the books after a complaint from a parent. |
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Open Access Bibliography (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - Charles W. Bailey, Jr. writes "The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature.Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; |
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Alabama honors vilified librarian (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron writes "montgomeryadvertiser.com reports on librarian Juliette Hampton Morgan, whose fearless newspaper letter-writing campaign assailing segregation eventually led to the loss of her job, her friends and her life." |
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Downloadable Audiobooks popular for Georgia library system (Mar 05 2005 19:59 GMT) - The Hall County Library System became the first library in Georgia last month to offer downloadable Recorded Books to public library patrons, and just the fifth library nationwide to provide the service. Since the downloadable audiobook service became active, over 140 Hall County Library cardholders have registered to use the service. ?The new audiobook service is the most popular new resource I have seen in our public libraries in my 30 year career,? Hall County Library Director Susan Stewart said. |
Eldritch Words Forum
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Re: New CAS collection: STAR CHANGES (Mar 05 2005 19:58 GMT) - What Boyd said. I hate to sound like a jerk, or, perhaps more accurately, like more of a jerk than usual ;-), but there are limits to the amount of enthusiasm I can muster for expensive, limited "collectors' editions" of anyone's work, including--or especially--CAS's. |
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Bruce on the Trustee Election (Mar 05 2005 19:57 GMT) - John Bruce '69 has written a typically insightful analysis of the alumni Trustee election. He takes on the administration's detractors:The difficulty I see with trying to put petition candidates on a Board of Trustees is that micromanaging issues like class enrollment or keg policy or faculty hiring is not normally a Board's job.The detractors' detractors aren't spared either:This is Prof. |
Obsolete Computer Museum Helpline
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Helpline Comment (30387) (Mar 05 2005 19:56 GMT) - Take a moment and question that rule of thumb. If you are only running programs that fit into the available memory, then you need no swap file at all. If you are running many more programs than you have memory, then you may need more than 2x. Remember that the swap file is a last resort - if you load up that many programs, your performance is going to suck. It's ok if you hide some programs in the background for a while - then it behaves more like task swapping. |
Blogator.com
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Lunchtime with Leo Laporte (Mar 05 2005 19:56 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Remember a few weeks ago when Leo Laporte and I got together for lunch in Petaluma? Well, he put the recording and photo up. The audio sucks, sorry about that. We were using my Tablet PC, weren' |
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Weitsprung-Gold für Kappler (Mar 05 2005 19:56 GMT) - [N24 - Sport] - Bianca Kappler hat bei der Leichtathletik-Hallen-EM Gold im Weitsprung geholt. Tim Lobinger und Sebastian Gatzka hatten zuvor dem DLV in Madrid jeweils Bronze beschert. |
Weblogg-ed News
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Blogging in Omaha (Mar 05 2005 19:55 GMT) - I got wind of young edubloggers at the Willowdale Elementary School in Nebraska, and I've happily Furled these new examples of elementary school examples. There's Mrs. Greenwald's first grade blog where they are covering a whole bunch of topics, Mrs. French's fifth grade class, Mrs. Sanborn's fifth grade class, and Mrs. |
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