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- Jun 21, 4:19pm
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 Jul 3, 7:56am  (1 review) news http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-r...- From the page: "The government is telling schools across the country to prepare to be used as clinics for mass vaccination programs set to be instituted later this year, according to an Associated Press report.
Schoolchildren are being targeted as the first recipients of a swine flu vaccine currently being developed, despite the fact that swine flu has proven far less lethal than originally feared, killing just 160 people worldwide, a figure dwarfed by the number of people who die annually from the regular flu virus."
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- Tod Goldberg: Student Body Shots: On Low Residency MFA Programs
- Jun 30, 6:47pm
 (1 review) education, blogs http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/tod_goldb... - FROM THE PAGE:
"My belief, as a writer, as a professor, as a new MFA, is that the low residency model is actually a far better approximation of what it is actually like to be a professional writer, where you have to juggle real life and writing.
Traditional MFA programs provide an equally intensive experience, certainly, but in a way it's a real halcyon time for most students where they suspend real life in order to immerse themselves in academia, where their social life, their academic life, their business life, is all housed in the same place for two years.
It works, certainly, and I think for younger writers specifically it's probably the best way to achieve the degree. But for someone with a career, a home, etc. the low residency is not unlike working as a freelance writer where you chase deadlines while maybe pulling 40 hours a week at some dreadful job -- the difference being that in the end you have 30K in debt vs. a nice bundle of freelance money. But it's also about self reliance -- you have to work one on one with the professor and drive yourself to work vs. being in a weekly classroom workshop that forces you week by week to be ready.
My sense is that in the next twenty years, as the cost of education rises (both from a student and administrative angle), you'll see more low residency programs because of the low cost and high return."
This is from the director of the UCR-Palm Desert Low Residency program, Tod Goldberg.
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- Magnolia and Meaning | Movies | Culture Snob
- Jun 30, 5:56am (1 review) movies http://www.culturesnob.net/2003/09/magno...
- thoughtful commentary on the film "Magnolia."
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- Zack Johnson - Zack16.com
- Jun 29, 9:43pm (4 reviews) humor http://zack16.com/
- a commercial endeavor, but still funny
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- New program helps manage student loan debt - Personal finance- msnbc.com...
- Jun 28, 12:39pm (1 review) education http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31596618/ns/...
- From the page: "Eligibility for income-based repayment (IBR) is determined by a person's income and loan size. A calculator at ibrinfo.org [ibrinfo.org] can help borrowers determine their eligibility for the plan, which becomes available Wednesday."
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- Celebrities Upside Down Pictures - Strange Celebrities Upside Down Pics...
- Jun 28, 12:28pm (7 reviews) humor http://www.freakingnews.com/Celebrities-...
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- "Raw, Emotional Drama" :: FITSNews
- Jun 28, 12:18pm (1 review) politics http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/06/25/raw-e...
- The comments below the article are interesting. Here's one:
From the page: "By Political Graveyard on June 25th, 2009 at 8:39 am
This was a Coup d'etat; a simple political assassination.
The State Newspaper had the emails since December 2008 which means that someone provided them from the "inner circle" of SC political power and probably involved a Judas who had access to Sanford's email.
If the State Newspaper knew of this, Sanford's enemies knew of it for longer. Why now?
Then it all became the ammunition for Political Black Book intimidation and leverage. Sanford didn't give in and they gave him an option A or option B.
This was a hardball hit job.
If the benchmark in Columbia is marriage fidelity a whole bunch of "boys" will be on the chopping block soon. But, that will never happen.
This was the "knockout" punch. The good old boys win another round."
Interesting that the newspaper waited so long to verify the veracity of the rumor.
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- How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?
- Jun 25, 7:14pm (43 reviews) zen http://www.pluginid.com/how-much-are-you...
- oh, great reminder to be in the present. Thank you, Lazarst.
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- Scarab :: The worlds only mobile literary magazine, produced for the iPhone...
- Jun 24, 10:01pm (1 review) writing http://www.scarabmag.com/
- Call for submissions of short prose or poems....
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- Good samaritan offers free haircuts for the unemployed
- Jun 24, 7:30pm (1 review) news, philanthropy http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/03/27...
- From the page: "NBC reports on one New England hair stylist who is offering free haircuts to the unemployed -- even though she normally charges $70 per head."
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