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Google's Schmidt To College Graduates: 'Take Your Eyes Off That Screen'

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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By Ross Kerber May 20 (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radic...

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My Affair with/Addiction to Yoga

Marjorie Hope Rothstein | Posted 05.18.2012

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As a nice Jewish girl from Long Island, the chanting of AOUMMM (OM) was strange to me. Here was my first awareness of the Chinese philosophy of Yin/Yang. Siddartha blew me away.

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Boston University Student Charged In Horrific Van Crash

AP | NICK PERRY | Posted 05.18.2012

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash...

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JPMorgan Chase's Trading Loss Said To Rise At Least 50%

Dealbook | NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG | Posted 05.16.2012

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The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank’s initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, ...

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BU Student In Coma After Deadly New Zealand Crash

AP | By BRIDGET MURPHY | Posted 05.15.2012

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BOSTON -- While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before M...

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BU Student In Coma After Deadly New Zealand Crash

AP | By BRIDGET MURPHY | Posted 05.15.2012

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BOSTON -- While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before M...

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Community Remembers 3 Boston Students Killed In New Zealand Crash

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.14.2012

Three Boston University students studying abroad in New Zealand died in a car accident when their minivan swerved off the road early Saturday morning....

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College Students Killed In Horrific Van Crash

AP | NICK PERRY | Posted 05.14.2012

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The parents of a Boston University student critically injured in a New Zealand minivan crash that killed three of her ...

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Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.08.2012

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I'd never heard of a space conference for business majors before. How exactly would students in BU's School of Management or the equivalent elsewhere explore space?

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know! Attending the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.30.2012

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While I'm incredibly sore that I couldn't be in New York today to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise arrive aboard NASA's carrier jet, living in Boston has allowed me to enjoy some first-rate experiences. The single luckiest event so far would have to be the Cambridge Science Festival.

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"Everybody Say 'Poyekhali'!" -- Yuri's Night in Boston

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.23.2012

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After two more people had arrived, the decision was made to dim the lights and start the movie First Orbit. This unique film shows a nearly continuous orbit of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, simulating what Yuri Gagarin would have seen on his flight.

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What Were These College Newspaper Editors Thinking?

Posted 04.12.2012

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What were they thinking? Some college newspaper editors have been facing criticism recently after publishing content meant to be satire that pushed...

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Why Coming Out Of The Closet Is Good For Your Health

Posted 04.11.2012

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As it turns out, coming out of the closet is good for your health -- if your family members are supportive, that is. A new study conducted by the ...

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Could Groupon Kill Your Yelp Rating?

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.11.2012

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Could a Groupon deal ruin your business's reputation online? Three computer scientists from Boston University and Harvard set out to shed light on ...

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Getting Lost at the Museum of Fine Arts

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.02.2012

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That's what I love about museums -- every artwork or display is a window into another place, another time or another way of thinking.

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37 Colleges That Are Cheaper Than You Think

Posted 03.26.2012

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There's plenty of bad news about the cost of higher education, but we do not always traffic in bad news here at HuffPost College. A number of scho...

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Boston Sorority Suspended After Alleged Hazing

Posted 03.22.2012

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Boston University officials have suspended a sorority at the center of an investigation for alleged hazing. On March 3, BU campus police found thre...

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Among the Wanderers

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.12.2012

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What kept me going was the knowledge that on Wednesday, the day after my last midterm, Mars would be at its closest to the Earth all year.

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Of Vacations Past and Future

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.06.2012

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Only one week of classes stands between Boston University's student body and spring break, and the halls are ringing with the ever-popular question, "Where are you going?"

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Since '45 - Extended Film Project

Michael Korolenko | Posted 04.25.2012

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"Since '45" presented a personal retrospective record of the years 1945 through 1979 of American cultural history and its relationship with modern media -- how it reports, portrays, impacts, and, in some cases, influences events.

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Miracle Zero Carb Cranberry Juice: American Heart Month, Day 16

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.17.2012

Antioxidant-rich cranberry juice may boost heart health by decreasing arterial stiffness, according to a recent Tufts and Boston University study.

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Beanpot Thriller Ends In Final Seconds Of OT

AP | JIMMY GOLEN | Posted 04.14.2012

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BOSTON — Bill Arnold scored with 6.4 seconds left in the first overtime to lead No. 3 Boston College to a 3-2 victory over No. 2 Boston Universi...

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Which University Won the Intercollegiate Programming Championship?

David Thielen | Posted 04.13.2012

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Each team wrote the A.I. for a computer game. The contest is then the A.I.s from each team fighting each other where one will reign victorious over the others on the field of battle.

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News Bulletin: Top Students Pick College Based on Academics!

Meg Campbell | Posted 03.31.2012

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In an effort to lure top high school students to enroll and their parents to pay annual tuition, room and board pushing into the $50,000-plus stratosp...

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Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 03.24.2012

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Prof. Alan Strahler's current work involves a ground-based LiDAR instrument called ECHIDNA, after the spiky Australian egg-laying mammal.

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