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Andy Samburg To Harvard: 'RELAX, Dude'

Posted 05.24.2012

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SNL's Andy Samberg carries the tradition of Mother Theresa and Bill Clinton and address Harvard's class of 2012 on Class Day. Harvard didn't offer ...

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Cambridge University Students' 'Rear Of The Year' Contest Stirs Up Scandal

Posted 05.24.2012

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It may be one of the most prestigious colleges on the planet but Cambridge University students aren't averse to some low-brow stunts. A student new...

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Duo Arrested For Stealing Chinese Artifacts

AP | Posted 05.02.2012

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LONDON — Police in Britain have made a total of six arrests in connection with the theft of valuable Chinese artifacts from two university museu...

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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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Zoe P. Strassfield

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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New Study Shows Violence Costing America Over $460 Billion

Michael Shank | Posted 04.24.2012

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Michael Shank

The U.S. Peace Index is based on analysis of homicide, violent crime, policing, incarceration rates and availability of small arms data. With improvements in all five of these indicators from the 2011 to the 2012 USPI, the U.S. was found to be more peaceful than at any time since 1991.

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This House Believes The Only Limit To Female Success Is Female Ambition

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 03.26.2012

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The Cambridge Union Society

We've been gently tapping at the glass ceiling for too long. It's time for women to take bold action to achieve a real change. It's time for us to regain our confidence and ambition and ensure that there is no limit to female success.

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PHOTOS: 'Treasure Trove' Of Fossils Collected By Darwin Found

AP/The Huffington Post | CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Posted 03.18.2012

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LONDON -- British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been...

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The Joy of Finding Out

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 02.17.2012

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Zoe P. Strassfield

The focus of Dr. Coleman's presentation was life aboard the International Space Station, from washing her hair (it's hard when water, like everything else, floats!) to the differences between modules built by different countries

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Renowned Scientist's Work Gets A New Home

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

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LONDON -- The University of Cambridge says it is posting almost all of Isaac Newton manuscripts to the Internet. The university said Monday it is lau...

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Out My Window, To The World... Above?

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 12.29.2011

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Zoe P. Strassfield

After the presentation, we were allowed to ask Dr. Patrick questions. Mine was simple: "Since you're so involved with creating new spacecraft, what about the future of human spaceflight most excites you?"

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Unprecedented Loan Of Louvre's 'Second Most Important Painting'

The Guardian | Mark Brown, Arts Correspondent | Posted 12.06.2011

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It was, Timothy Potts admits, an audacious request to the Louvre: that it lend what is arguably its second most important painting to the Fitzwilliam ...

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WATCH: Nobel Prize Winners Get Silly -- It's Ig Nobel Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.29.2011

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Can a strong urge to urinate impair your ability to drive? Is yawning contagious? Will motorists stop double-parking if you threaten to flatten their ...

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'He Could Kill Somebody And Not Even Think About It'

AP | Posted 10.12.2011

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CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. -- A police investigator says an upstate New York man accused of killing three relatives told him he shot them before setting fire to ...

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City To Pay Married Gay Workers Extra

AP | By JOHANNA KAISER | Posted 09.09.2011

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When the city of Cambridge issues paychecks to its public employees, nearly two dozen workers find a federal tax on their income t...

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"The Weddings of the Century"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 08.29.2011

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Jerry Zezima

Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge St. James's Palace Chapel Royal, Cleveland Row London, England SW1A 1DH Dear William and Kate: I a...

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The Best Ice Cream Spots In The Country

Food & Wine | Posted 09.16.2011

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Ice cream shops and parlors across America are offering incredible takes on the quintessential summer dessert. Here, Food & Wine presents 25 of the na...

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Top UK Academics Form New University, Want Rival To Oxbridge

AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 08.06.2011

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LONDON -- A group of prominent British academics said Sunday they are starting a private liberal arts university in London to rival the country's elit...

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Students Automatically Enrolled in AP, IB and Cambridge Programs

Posted 08.02.2011

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One Washington school district has taken a giant leap this year in pushing students to take college preparatory courses. Starting in fall 2010, all s...

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Is It Possible To Live To 1,000?

Vicky Collins | Posted 07.19.2011

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Vicky Collins

Want to live to be a thousand years old? It's not far-fetched at all if you ask theoretician and geneticist Aubrey de Grey.

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Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 07.06.2011

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Lisa Mirza Grotts

The Windsors have tied the knot yet again. But the wedding of this century has turned out to be very different from the one in 1981 when Prince Charles wed Lady Diana Spencer.

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Racy Ski Trip Lands Oxford And Cambridge Students In Hot Water

Posted 05.25.2011

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The antics of Oxford and Cambridge University students on a recent ski trip to France have cost them their future corporate sponsorship, according to ...

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Questioning Google's Deal With ITA -- as a Former Regulator

Pamela Jones Harbour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pamela Jones Harbour

Google's proposed acquisition of ITA and potential dominance in the online travel market raises substantial questions I would ask as a former antitrust regulator.

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Cambridge Students Take Club Drug For Research Purposes

Telegraph | Murray Wardrop | Posted 05.25.2011

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The experiments, carried out by the Department of Psychiatry, were designed to investigate treatment methods for schizophrenia. People suffering fr...

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Harvard-Yale Football Game Results 2010: Crimson Topples Bulldogs, 28-21

AP | JIMMY GOLEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard receiver Marco Iannuzzi had an extra incentive to avoid being tackled on Saturday: He was playing with a broken colla...

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Desperate For Holiday Gift Ideas? Try Online Auctions For Charity

Posted 05.25.2011

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Trolling eBay for holiday deals? You may want to try out a different site this season, which uses online auctions to raise money for schools and nonpr...

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