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• The good news: Gas prices still tumbling
  10.9.08 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Woods Hole scientist shares Nobel
  10.9.08 | Boston Globe
• OPINION: No Depression
  10.9.08 | Washington Post
• Bob Schieffer has final try to rein in candidates
  10.7.08 | Boston Herald
• Ukrainian president orders early election
  10.9.08 | Guardian
• Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize
  10.9.08 | New York Times
• Tech Firms Prepare for the Worst
  10.9.08 | ABCNews.com
• Grants back effort to put obese kids on healthier path
  10.9.08 | Boston Globe
• Satellites may help scientists predict outbreaks
  10.8.08 | Discovery Channel
• Blood Cell Genes May Signal Heart Disease
  10.8.08 | HealthDay News
• LED Lamps Could Be Used For Data, Too
  10.8.08 | PC Magazine
• 'Elements' pushes landscape to its boundaries
  10.8.08 | Boston Globe
• US mess casts shadow over 'anything goes' capitalism
  10.8.08 | Thanh Nien News
• Debate snoozefest with Tom Brokaw at helm
  10.8.08 | Boston Herald
• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize
  10.8.08 | Associated Press
• 'BU is a city within a city'
  10.8.08 | Boston Metro
• Colleges Getting Hit by the Credit Crunch
  10.8.08 | Time
• 'Broken Symmetry' of Particles Yields Physics Nobel
  10.7.08 | Bloomberg
• Bernanke book on Depression rides sales surge
  10.7.08 | USA Today
• In Politics, Should Private Affairs Become Public Issues?
  10.7.08 | Voice of America
• New threat to Wi-Fi: light bulbs!
  10.7.08 | Computerworld
• Here's latest update: Facebook keeps users in constant contact
  10.7.08 | Boston Herald
• Critic says Bush post-9/11 spending strategy led to Wall Street crisis
  10.6.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Early birds get to survive changing climate
  10.6.08 | New Scientist
• Ambitious college students get new social network
  10.6.08 | Crain\'s New York Business
• A semester abroad ... in Tinseltown
  10.6.08 | Los Angeles Times
• School of hard knocks
  10.6.08 | Boston Globe
• Doctors shouldn't help make executions easier, ethicist says
  10.6.08 | Boston Globe
• Leaf peeping promises to be special
  10.6.08 | Berkshire Record
• Unlocking the secrets of memory
  10.5.08 | Men\'s Health
• OPINION: He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill Is Due
  10.5.08 | Washington Post
• The College Issue: Five to Watch
  10.5.08 | Boston Globe
• The Right Way to Pick a College
  10.5.08 | Boston Globe
• Stopping traffic before it starts near expanded Harvard
  10.5.08 | Boston Globe
• Up, Up, and Away!
  10.5.08 | Boston Globe
• Feld really has some clowns working for him
  10.5.08 | Boston Globe
• Graduates drowning in debt from high cost of college
  10.5.08 | Seattle Times
• Apocalypse soon
  10.4.08 | San Diego Union-Tribune
• False report of Jobs' illness sends Apple stock tumbling
  10.4.08 | Boston Herald
• Biolab panel will hold hearing at night
  10.4.08 | Boston Herald
• Eyes on Bette Davis stamp
  10.3.08 | Newark Star-Ledger
• When Tech Really Helps
  10.3.08 | Forbes.com
• America's century: is the sun setting on an epoch?
  10.4.08 | Sydney Morning Herald
• Scientists with funny bones
  10.3.08 | Boston Globe
• After-class mixer at the MFA
  10.2.08 | Boston Globe
• Spermicide Coke, stale chips research wins Ig Nobels
  10.2.08 | Reuters
• U.S. Financial Woes Endanger Investment, Aid in Africa
  10.2.08 | GlobeAtlanta
• Generalized anxiety disorder: The worst kind of worry
  10.2.08 | Cape Cod Times
• The Bailout's Power Vacuum
  10.2.08 | Washington Independent
• Forma Therapeutics buys SolMap Pharmaceuticals
  10.2.08 | Mass High Tech
• Who wins in this bad economy?
  10.2.08 | MetroWest Daily News
• Low rates on savings
  10.1.08 | Marketplace
• Entertainment value 'huge' for Palin-Biden
  10.1.08 | Hollywood Reporter
• A Counter-Petition
  10.1.08 | New York Times
• Paul Dunbar's Lasting Poetry
  10.1.08 | Investor\'s Business Daily
• The silent Sun's uncertain course
  10.1.08 | Financial Times
• Should Candidates' Sons Serve on the Frontline?
  10.1.08 | ABCNews.com
• BU head calls for a hiring freeze
  10.1.08 | Boston Globe
• Specialists: Inaction on bailout will bring pain
  10.1.08 | Boston Globe
• Dueling Economists: This Group Supports Bailout
  10.1.08 | Washington Post
• Protection sought for a sea brute
  10.1.08 | Boston Globe
• TV pundits channeling panic, say experts
  10.1.08 | Boston Herald
• Age becomes part of the equation
  10.1.08 | Chicago Tribune
• Snakes, insects and amphibians, oh my
  9.30.08 | Gloucester Daily News
• 3 banks to control a third of U.S. deposits
  9.30.08 | Philadelphia Inquirer
• Lebanon, Syria blame bombings on Islamic militants
  9.30.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Colleges calling sleep a success prerequisite
  9.30.08 | Boston Globe
• COMMENTARY: Getting it right the next time on"too big to fail"
  9.30.08 | Reuters
• Teens' guzzling of energy drinks raising medical fears
  9.29.08 | Associated Press
• Back Bay's tower of wealth
  9.29.08 | Boston Globe
• Let's drill our way out of the problem. But can we?
  9.29.08 | Lower Hudson Valley Journal-News
• Elie Wiesel Reflects on Turning 80
  9.29.08 | New York Times
• Fletcher Allen has innovative heart attack program
  9.29.08 | Associated Press
• Some look to buy distressed assets
  9.29.08 | Boston Globe
• Shelf Life: African Dreams
  9.28.08 | Boston Globe
• Could the bailout turn a profit for taxpayers?
  9.28.08 | Los Angeles Times
• After debate, race between McCain, Obama still tight
  9.28.08 | Newsday
• For area Muslims, Ramadan a time of fasting and faith
  9.28.08 | Boston Globe
• 2 Hub universities give ucrime.com an incomplete
  9.28.08 | Boston Herald
• OPINION: Bush's third war
  9.27.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Home: where the vote is
  9.28.08 | Boston Globe
• Attorney general's OK moves sale of WRNI step closer
  9.27.08 | Providence Journal
• The Art Of Handling Sick Chief Executives
  9.26.08 | Investor\'s Business Daily
• Resuscitate your retirement finances
  9.26.08 | MSNBC
• Safe Investing in a Troubled Economy
  9.25.08 | Business Week
• Athletes to donate brains for study
  9.25.08 | Associated Press
• 2 out of 3 colleges improve on eco-friendly grades
  9.25.08 | Boston Globe
• Ex-Patriot player Ted Johnson donating brain to science
  9.25.08 | Boston Herald
• New regulations sure to accompany bailout
  9.25.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Time to reconsider rules-of-thumb
  9.24.08 | MarketWatch
• Man avoids British jail for child cruelty in Muslim rite
  9.24.08 | Canadian Press
• Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?
  9.24.08 | National Geographic News
• COMMENTARY: Avoiding bubbles - SEC has it backwards
  9.24.08 | Reuters
• Space Scientists Say Solar Winds Are at a Record Low
  9.24.08 | Voice of America
• COMMENTARY: Skirting the Specifics
  9.24.08 | Washington Independent
• Delivering the news at BU
  9.24.08 | Boston Globe
• Athletes to Leave Their Brains to Concussion Study
  9.24.08 | New York Times
• GPS gap eyed in wake of release
  9.24.08 | Boston Herald
• Barclays takes over as Cape Wind financial adviser
  9.24.08 | Cape Cod Times
• Report gives health OK to landfill
  9.24.08 | Springfield Republican
• Scientists find sun less blustery than before
  9.23.08 | Reuters
• Northampton residents to hear state report on health effects of city landfill
  9.22.08 | Springfield Republican
• BU to shift more aid to needy students
  9.22.08 | Boston Globe
• Knowing facts can help consumers sort out food claims
  9.22.08 | Lowell Sun
• City's free cash gives unions hope for resolution
  9.22.08 | Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise
• Nonprofits gird for loss of funding
  9.22.08 | Boston Globe
• Q&A: Andrew Bacevich, 'The Limits of Power'
  9.21.08 | Austin American-Statesman
• Americans' addiction to borrowing root of crisis
  9.21.08 | San Diego Union Tribune
• Lawless legacy: Eastside family has 50 convictions
  9.21.08 | Indianapolis Star
• Field Work
  9.21.08 | New York Times
• Why delaying retirement may be your best option
  9.21.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Bringing together big-screen royalty
  9.19.08 | Boston Globe
• SEC's Cox Catches Blame for Financial Crisis
  9.19.08 | Business Week
• Keep Wall Street Out of the Retirement Business
  9.19.08 | Business Week
• Amid fiscal woes, Obama reshapes campaign message
  9.19.08 | Boston Globe
• Sarandon, Bacall have Bette Davis ayes
  9.19.08 | Boston Herald
• Buy, Sell, or Stay Put? Advice from the Pros
  9.18.08 | Business Week
• Who cares about Europe?
  9.18.08 | The Economist
• Ancient, but How Safe?
  9.18.08 | New York Times
• Growing charter school's new setting feels right at home
  9.18.08 | Boston Globe
• Report awaited on dump effects
  9.18.08 | Springfield Republican
• Commentary: Washington will be forced to revisit regulation
  9.18.08 | Reuters
• Report: Increased Competition Will Produce Better, Cheaper Follow-on Biologics
  9.17.08 | CQ Politics
• Campaign deja vu - it's the economy again
  9.17.08 | San Francisco Chronicle
• A devoted dad, and great guy, Jack Falla leaves classy legacy
  9.17.08 | Boston Herald
• Challenging Conventional Wisdom on STEM Supply
  9.17.08 | Inside Higher Education
• Economy, Internet affect AP's news role
  9.17.08 | PR Week
• Clamor Against Yahoo-Google Ad Partnership Grows
  9.16.08 | E-Commerce Times
• BPA linked to heart disease and diabetes, study says
  9.16.08 | Boston Globe
• Accessible science
  9.15.08 | Boston Globe
• Hockey writer Falla dies of heart failure
  9.15.08 | Boston Globe
• Talking of Microsoft, Thinking of Google
  9.15.08 | Conde Nast Portfolio
• For anxious children, help is out there
  9.14.08 | Boston Globe
• Investing in drilling may not be wise thing to do
  9.14.08 | Oakland Press
• Program turns to online masses to improve patents
  9.14.08 | Associated Press
• At local universities, graduate degrees go green
  9.14.08 | Boston Globe
• Veep power
  9.13.08 | Toronto Star
• My Mother's Case of 'Pleasant Dementia'
  9.13.08 | Newsweek
• Sprouted bread sprouts strong sales
  9/12/08 | Associated Press
• Lauren Bacall to be honored on Bette Davis centennial
  9.11.08 | Daily News of Los Angeles
• Apocalypse Then
  9.11.08 | Metrowest Daily News
• 9/11 justice: War crimes tribunals don't engage public
  9.11.08 | Miami Herald
• To Work or Not?
  9.11.08 | Newsweek
• Susan Sarandon and Lauren Bacall have got Bette Davis prize
  9.11.08 | Los Angeles Times
• A Study Revives a Debate on Arthritis Knee Surgery
  9.11.08 | New York Times
• Lehman tries to soothe Wall Street with asset sale
  9.11.08 | Associated Press
• To win the presidential race, it takes energy
  9.10.08 | USA Today
• VP pick Sarah Palin revs up action doll sales
  9.10.08 | Boston Herald
• State cracks down on underage drinkers
  9.10.08 | Boston Globe
• Hub schools cut on energy use
  9.10.08 | Boston Metro
• As congregations shrink, many Protestant churches struggle
  9.10.08 | MetroWest Daily News
• Boston U. remembers Bette Davis
  9.9.08 | Variety
• Evangelical, but not monolithic
  9.9.08 | Las Vegas Sun
• Youth athletic deaths are rare
  9.9.08 | MetroWest Daily News
• We hear: Susan Sarandon, James Taylor
  9.9.08 | Boston Herald
• McCain-Palin Surging in the Polls
  9.9.08 | New York Sun
• Atomic Afterimage
  9.9.08 | Art Daily
• The Big Idea
  9.8.08 | The Big Idea
• HRT Use Raises Risk of Stomach Trouble
  9.8.08 | HealthDay News
• All eyes on collider as it comes to life
  9.8.08 | Boston Globe
• Top Mass. regulator makes waves in ARS debacle
  9.8.08 | Reuters
• BU exhibition is long on talent, short on time
  9.8.08 | Boston Globe
• Schools to offer counseling after a death and a collapse
  9.8.08 | Boston Globe
• Questions linger as Fort Hood general assumes command in Iraq
  9.7.08 | McClatchy Newspapers
• A new day dawns for a Spanish-language publication
  9.6.08 | Boston Globe
• No easy cure for market malaise
  9.6.08 | Newark Star-Ledger
• Stage is set for a spunky season on Broadway
  9.5.08 | Hollywood Reporter
• Hub seeks more bans on tobacco
  9.4.08 | Boston Globe
• WRNI celebrates its independence
  9.3.08 | Boston Phoenix
• 'Hockey mom' Palin enters GOP limelight
  9.3.08 | Hollywood Reporter
• Recession fears ease as price of oil declines
  9.3.08 | Newark Star Ledger
• Odds 1-in-3 that McCain may not reach 80
  9.3.08 | United Press International
• Bloggers in attack mode get personal
  9.2.08 | Boston Herald
• Hospitals send formula home with baby while encouraging mother to breast-feed
  9.2.08 | Chicago Tribune
• Hazards: Toxic Metals Found in Health Products
  9.2.08 | New York Times
• Moving day
  9.2.08 | Boston Globe
• Brace Yourselves!
  9.1.08 | Human Resource Executive
• R.I. Public Radio breaks away from WBUR
  9.1.08 | Providence Business Journal
• Murray rakes in campaign dollars
  9.1.08 | Associated Press
• More using strong painkillers
  9.1.08 | Boston Globe
• Wait watchers: Move-in weekend for college students
  9.1.08 | Boston Herald
• For WRNI, "independence day" nears
  9.1.08 | Providence Journal
• Running mate differs on drilling, stem cell research
  8.31.08 | Boston Herald
• For parents of college freshmen, first test is on economics of travel
  8.31.08 | Boston Globe
• Wary approval for BU Bridge plan
  8.31.08 | Boston Globe
• Bush family continues to have clout within the GOP
  8.31.08 | Houston Chronicle
• Is the Republican Party in peril?
  8.30.08 | Christian Science Monitor
• Report: More than 38 million watched Dem’s historic speech
  8.30.08 | Boston Herald
• Hot Off the Trail of McCain's Veep Choice
  8.30.08 | Washington Post
• With Software, Till Tampering Is Hard to Find
  8.30.08 | New York Times
• OPINION: Bad experiment in S. End
  8.30.08 | Boston Herald
• West mulls few options in Georgia-Russia crisis
  8.29.08 | Christian Science Monitor
• Anti-Poverty Ad Cost $250K To Produce
  8.29.08 | New York Sun
• LETTERS: Hit teen drinkers in their wallets
  8.29.08 | Boston Globe
• Cable, Quietly, Introduces an Anytime Elections Channel
  8.29.08 | New York Times
• Going From CEO to HR Minder at Kohl's
  8.28.08 | Workforce Management
• Is Freddie Mac next in GSE management shake-up?
  8.28.08 | Reuters
• Lost sheep
  8.28.08 | Economist
• 'Collision Course' for Graduate Education
  8.28.08 | Inside Higher Education
• Labor Day Holiday May Offer Little Optimism for Workers
  8.28.08 | Workforce Management
• Man convicted for child cruely in Muslim ceremony
  8.27.08 | Associated Press
• Humans Can Learn from Subliminal Cues Alone
  8.27.08 | Wired
• Laurels for a Boston media vet
  8.27.08 | Boston Phoenix
• Auction-rate probes stoke New York-Boston rivalry
  8.27.08 | Reuters
• Cost of vaccines puts them out of reach for many
  8.27.08 | Scripps News
• Easing Back-to-School Anxiety
  8.26.08 | TheBostonChannel
• Time bombs
  8.27.08 | Boston Phoenix
• Biden to recast foreign policy from centre stage
  8.27.08 | Guardian
• Russia Backs Independence of Georgian Enclaves
  8.27.08 | New York Times
• Study finds toxins in some herbal medicines
  8.27.08 | USA Today
• Report: 22.3 million tuned in to watch Michelle Obama
  8.27.08 | Boston Herald
• Health insurance venture propels Commonwealth to top of the list
  8.27.08 | Boston Globe
• What Does a Sick C.E.O. Do to His Company?
  8.26.08 | New York Times
• Herbal Products Sold Online Contaminated in 20 Percent of Cases
  8.26.08 | Bloomberg
• More on Drilling ...
  8.26.08 | New York Times
• 'Tenacious' Kennedy refuses to be no-show
  8.26.08 | USA Today
• The Downsides of Detox
  8.26.08 | Washington Post
• Kennedy gives Obama emotional lift
  8.26.08 | Canadian Press
• Snowmelt Carved Mars Gullies Later Than Thought
  8.25.08 | National Geographic News
• Tracing the Disparate Threads in Obama's Political Philosophy
  8.25.08 | New York Times
• Kennedy in Denver to attend Democratic convention
  8.25.08 | USA Today
• OPINION: Maine Dems gather in Colo.
  8.25.08 | Bangor Daily News
• The Biden selection: Some reactions and thoughts
  8.25.08 | MinnPost.com
• Does chewing ice harm teeth?
  8.25.08 | Boston Globe
• Rod Dreher: Where pragmatism goes to die
  8.24.08 | Dallas Morning News
• OPINION: The next president will disappoint you
  8.24.08 | Los Angeles Times
• Money tight, loans scarce, some do college in 3 years
  8.24.08 | Boston Globe
• U.S. 'fiscal gap' paving the road to meltdown
  8.23.08 | Globe and Mail
• Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?
  8.22.08 | National Geographic News
• Iodized salt urged for women in iodine-poor areas
  8.22.08 | Reuters
• St. Louis Sees Jump in Chinese Freshman Enrollment
  8.22.08 | U.S. News & World Report
• Home Smoking Ban Keeps Teens From Lighting Up
  8.21.08 | HealthDay News
• A British Men's Club With a Taste for Classics
  8.22.08 | New York Times
• Olympics display growth of Chinese graphic design
  8.22.08 | Worcester Telegram & Gazette
• The FCC vs. Comcast: Who's Got the Most Marbles?
  8.22.08 | E-Commerce Daily
• Nanotech will drive fuel cell efforts
  8.22.08 | Mass High Tech
• Profit Without Risk? Not Likely
  8.22.08 | New York Times
• BU appoints dental school dean
  8.21.08 | BostonGlobe
• Breaking VP news . . . there is no VP news
  8.21.08 | McClatchy Newspapers
• Picking Out Specific Sounds In A Complex Scene
  8.21.08 | Science Daily
• Fiedler on the spot
  8.20.08 | Boston Phoenix
• FedEx Loses Investors as Courts Upend Founder's Model
  8.20.08 | Bloomberg
• Field Studies
  8.20.08 | Washington Post
• Boston's newest classrooms: schoolyards
  8.20.08 | Christian Science Monitor
• Paranoia can increase with number of pets
  8.20.08 | Montreal Gazette
• How America Is Squandering Its Wealth and Power
  8.19.08 | U.S. News & World Report
• Low Vitamin D Raises Women's Hip Fracture Risk
  8.18.08 | HealthDay News
• Weak dollar drives strong growth in applications
  8.18.08 | India New England