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TODAY'S LOCAL
HEADLINES
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TODAY'S NATIONAL
HEADLINES
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TODAY'S OPINIONS
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LOCAL HEADLINES
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Flandrau may get
new life as tech
hub
By Becky Pallack.
The University
of Arizona plans
to revive
Flandrau Science
Center as a
science outreach
hub seven months
after closing
its planetarium.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/business/324211.php)
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Mesa looks to
lure new college
or med school
Mesa officials
will begin
working to lure
another college
or a major
medical school,
the mayor of the
nation's 38th
largest city
said.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/business/324212.php)
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Recall leader
takes out
petitions
By Rhonda
Bodfield.
Organizers of a
petition to
recall Mayor Bob
Walkup and
Councilwomen
Regina Romero
and Karin Uhlich,
noting that
under Romero's
watch, millions
were wasted on
Rio Nuevo
projects, with
few tangible
results.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/324245.php)
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NATIONAL
HEADLINES
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Beetle Mania
[From The
Atlantic]. By
Jim Giles.
Richard
Hofstetter, a
beetle expert at
Northern Arizona
University, and
his colleagues
believe they may
have found a way
to halt a plague
of spruce ips, a
species of bark
beetle that is
destroying
forests: by
driving the
insects crazy
using
high-frequency
sounds.
(Associated
Press:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/beetles-music)
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Now, treatment
for
osteoarthritis
{From Times of
India]. The Knee
Study, conducted
at the
University of
Arizona
Arthritis Center
in Tucson, AZ,
was a 24-month
unblinded,
randomised
intervention
trial to compare
the effects of
strength
training
programmes,
self-management
programmes, and
a combination of
both.
(Associated
Press:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/health-fitness/health/Strength-training-treats-osteoarthritis/articleshow/5419232.cms)
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Governor's call
for giving
colleges
priority over
prisons faces
hard political
tests
By Shane
Goldmacher and
Larry Gordon. At
the center of
Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's
State of the
State speech
Wednesday was a
proposal that
outside of
Sacramento might
seem like common
sense: Mandate
that the state
invest more
dollars each
year in its
public
universities
than in locking
people up in
prison.
(LA Times:
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/local/~3/qWcK-iSpUOY/la-me-education-prison7-2010jan07,0,3859928.story)
(Inside Higher
Education:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/07/california)
(The Chronicle
of Higher
Education:
http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/eK6BJTAEKaQ/)
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Carnegie
Foundation Calls
for 'Radical
Transformation'
of Nursing
Education
By Peter
Schmidt.
Nursing-education
programs need to
undergo sweeping
change to remedy
a severe
shortage of
nurses and stop
producing
undergraduates
who are poorly
prepared to deal
with profound
changes in
science,
technology, and
the nature of
their work,
according to the
results of a
national study
released
Wednesday by the
Carnegie
Foundation for
the Advancement
of Teaching.
(The Chronicle
of Higher
Education:
http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/m8uHkKY5Yxs/)
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OPINIONS
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The New Year at
God Blogging
By God Blogging
(and more) -
Thoughts on
heaven and earth
and some things
in between By
Renee Schafer
Horton. They
should pair up
with Arizona
Board of
Regents’
President Ernest
Calderón in his
look-see at
UA/ASU athletics
spending (and
maybe ask why
can’t UA’s
estimated $2
million bowl
take go to fund,
oh, a break in
yet another
tuition hike?)
(Tucson Citizen:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/godblogging/2010/01/06/the-new-year-at-god-blogging/)
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