Judi Vitucci, Ph. D., executive director of the Healthy Start Coalition of Pinellas, was named the Community Healthcare Pioneer by the Pinellas County Health Department.

Earliest American Dogs May Have Been Dinner Science Now In a paper published online this month in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, a team headed by geneticist Raul Tito at the University of Oklahoma in Norman reports finding a dog bone in 9260-year-old naturally preserved human feces. ... and more »

Public Broadcasting Service has selected a San Rafael man to participate this week in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, a 10-day journey that lets young people retrace the original bus route civil rights activists took 50 years ago to protest segregation on transit.

We just learned about this effort, and find it an intriguing way of thinking about repatriation and the relationship between archive and community. Check it out here.

VATICAN CITY, MAY 6, 2011 .- Here is a translation of Benedict XVI's address today to members of the St.

William Manning Marable II might not have enjoyed as celebrated a career as other notable writers from Dayton and the Miami Valley.

With blue skies predicted for the next few days, there ain't no way First Friday won't be sprouting artwalkers like dandelions.

The Strickland-Hatcher House, 1327 32nd St. North, will be on the Historic Norwood Hard Hat Home Tour II.

Do you like this Article? JR Byers, a non-traditional adult student atA MCC Longview , enrolled at the community college after being laid off from his job as a corporate trainer.

Dr John Postill Doing Media Ethnography Research seminar to Doctoral Programme students IN3, Open University of Catalonia Media-TIC building, nr Glories Wednesday, 11 May 2011 10.30-12.00 In this seminar I draw from my previous research in Malaysia and ongoing research in Barcelona to explore the ethnographic study of media. I pay particular attention to the [...]

For as long as anyone in the tiny Spanish village of San Pedro Manrique can remember, people there have been walking on fire.

Students who applied for nationally competitive fellowships this past academic year were recognized for their intellectual curiosity and global engagement at a recent celebration in the Ho Science Center.

New York Daily News

With Budget Unveiling, Bloomberg Draws the Battle Lines WNYC "We are forced to do the best we can with what we've got. The state has shifted the burden from them to us." Following the unveiling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final budget, the battle lines are now drawn between the mayor and City ... Bloomberg to cut more than 6000 NYC teaching positionsCNN International Bloomberg's $65.7 Billion New York City Budget Proposes 6000 Teacher CutsBloomberg NYC Mayor's Budget Would Cut 1 Out Of 12 TeachersNPR Brooklyn Daily Eagle -Patch.com -The Associated Press all 331 news articles »

There's a wonderful little shop in Earlville that I just love, for many reasons, not the least of which is that the owners try to source everything directly with producers.A This eliminates one or two layers of the supply chain, which translates to better prices for the consumer.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Susan Myster can tell a ton about you from your hips, teeth and collarbone.

Let's do the time warp again and roll this video once more. It's the 7/28/09 UFO pas de deux from Dundee, Scotland.

So you know about food trucks, right? Lots of them park downtown and circle the city and go to bars at night and have generally added a fun note to the dining scene around here.

The 2010-11 Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lecture was delivered by Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, on April 26 in Boliou Hall.  The lecture, which was entitled “Stranger-Kings and Stranger-Kin: The Alterity of Power and Vice-Versa,” addressed the idea of self-producing cultures verses the idea ...

Vampire author Charlaine Harris coming to Knoxville Knoxville News Sentinel Benefits: Knoxville Crime Lab and the building fund for the William M. Bass III Forensic Anthropology Building KNOXVILLE — For East Tennessee fans of author Charlaine Harris and her Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series, there is good news and bad ... and more »

Virginia's Michael Shabaz has won NCAA doubles titles with two different partners.

AS HUMANS migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and moved across the planet, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness.

The day I attended a preview performance of the deceptively simple Locker No. 4173B , the Tony Award nominations had just been announced, and fresh in my mind was the fact that none of the characters portrayed in the four nominees for Best Play could have afforded tickets to see those shows.

The University of Denver might keep as much as 80 percent of its library collection in an off-campus storage facility even when renovations of Penrose Library are complete.

Doors open at 6. * Tickets: $40 for VIP seating and a copy of Dead Reckoning; $30 for VIP seating; $20 for general admission.

It's comforting to know that the market still conforms to both natural and social law.

Red in Tooth and Claw Among the Literati Securities Industry News (subscription) Following Carroll, some began incorporating neuroscience, cognitive science, anthropology, and—most prominently and controversially—evolutionary psychology into their work. Some of that work reads like traditional, pre-1970s English scholarship: ... and more »

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Jobs Report Has More Bad News Than Good News CNBC.com AP There was more bad news than met the eye to Friday's jobs report, even beyond the bump up in the unemployment rate. While the top-line number of 244000 jobs created sounded great when it came off the tape, the internals were somewhat weaker. ... Snap Analysis: Jobs report shows strength with a caveatReuters Strong Job Report Shows US Economy Gaining SteamNew York Times US Economy Adds Jobs, but Unemployment Rate RisesWall Street Journal Bloomberg -Los Angeles Times -TheStreet.com all 699 news articles »

They arrive somewhat anonymously, first names only with a last initial, summoned by social media to meet at a specific time and place.

Fewer and fewer people born into the Christian faith have accepted the four Gospels as the last word on the birth, life and death of Jesus.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Share Dodie Lovett Age: 61 Education: Double major in English and theatre; minor in social anthropology from Bucknell University Career: Social worker employed by Northumberland County Adult Services.

This could be a precious Mother's Day gift. Did you lose your mother's ring, in the early 1990s, in Everett? It has five stones, two with the same monthly color, three individual colors.

Victoria native Devin Tepleski has found a place in the international world of photography.

The death of Osama bin Laden ushers in a period of relief fit for Sophocles! It should surprise no one that violent revolutionaries are unfit to govern the impact of the means by which they rule.

Marco Muller's Chinese friends call him "Ma Zhu Xi", literally "Chairman Ma", The title is appropriate.

Here's a story that's fitting as we head toward Mother's Day. It's about a mother-and-daughter klezmer duo.

I am saddened to leave the University of New Hampshire, especially now, when she is being attacked and brutalized.

The Girl Scouts Farthest North Council presented their Women of Distinction awards to, from left, Peggy Pollen, Shirley Lee, Mary Binkley and Jeri Wigdahl during a banquet Thursday evening, May 5, 2011, at the Fairbanks Westmark Hotel.

Anthropology doctoral student Donald Slater has been awarded a $3,000 Mellon Dissertation Research grant and a $2,000 Sachar award for research abroad to develop his dissertation "At the Heart of the Turtle: Caves and Power in Ancient Central Yucatan, Mexico." Slater's research will be carried out in the cave-rich Yaxcaba municipal region of the ...

The University of Denver might keep as much as 80 percent of its library collection in an off-campus storage facility even when renovations of Penrose Library are complete.

"I fell in love with it," said Helm, one of Hawaii's most popular singers. "I really, really felt that old style.

Jaina reclining figure looking into mirror. Ceramic. Size: 18.5 X 17.2 X 9 cm. Late Classic Period AD 600-800. Photo: ROM 2011.

With the school year coming to a close, Holy Cross students from various classes and majors showcased their independent work during a four-day Academic Conference.

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President meets a 'harsh' critic New York Post A 10-year-old boy whose firefighter dad died on 9/11 was thrilled to meet President Obama during yesterday's wreath-laying ceremony, but that didn't stop him from offering the commander in chief a critique of the raid that killed ... Thousands converge on Ground Zero, await President Obama's arrivalThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com At Firehouse in Midtown, a VIP Stops By for LunchNew York Times 10-year-old whose father died on 9/11 shares emotional moment with President ...New York Daily News Washington Post -Atlanta Journal Constitution -SILive.com all 275 news articles »

"Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won.

Ritz East Posted on Thu, May. 5, 2011 Werner Herzog is the best pick to direct documentary 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' Daily News Film Critic Last year the guardians of France's international treasure, a cave containing 30,000-year-old art, decided to allow a movie director to film there.

Longview student J.R. Byers was named this week a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship - a prestigious $30,000 annual scholarship that will allow Byers a chance to transfer to the university of his choice to finish his bachelors degree.

According to a recent and controversial book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, many students show no significant gains in knowledge during their first two years of college.

Dr. ROSEANNE Rutten emailed me her comments on an article I wrote for Kasarinlan, the journal of the Third World Study Center of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. The paper on food sovereignty and organic agriculture in Negros Occidental is still undergoing peer-review. Roseanne is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, ...

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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. - One juror shook her head as Dr. John Hunsaker of the state medical examiner's office pointed to various spots on pictures of the badly bruised body of Stephen Troy, the 23-month old who died on October 23, 2009 of blunt force trauma.