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Comeau leaves lasting legacy at ASDFor those who know her, and those whose lives have been touched by her, all would likely agree that there’s just something about Carol. |
May Issue 3 2012 | |
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Students’ garbage bin passes grizzly test at YellowstoneLIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — The Gardiner Bruins beat the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center’s bears in a one-hour contest on a recent Friday in West Yellowstone. |
May Issue 2 2012 |
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The Bookworm Sez: Seize your Aha! momentThere are days when you wish you were a magician. |
May Issue 2 2012 |
GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan billRepublicans said they favor preventing the interest rate increase but blocked the Senate from debating the $6 billion measure because they oppose how Democrats would pay for it: Boosting Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on high-earning stockholders of some privately owned corporations. |
May Issue 1 2012 | |
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Drone venture takes honors at small biz competitionThe coffee shop across the street from your office, custom helicopter tours, Netflix. All of these ideas had to come from somewhere and Alaskan educators and businesses joined forces in an annual effort to encourage new entrepreneurs to get going. |
May Issue 1 2012 |
Legislature awards money for UA engineering buildingsThe University of Alaska has been on a mission to increase its engineering students for several years now. That mission got a big push in the final hours of the legislative session, when the House passed the Senate’s capital budget that include more than $100 million for new engineering buildings at two campuses. |
April Issue 4 2012 | |
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1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployedThe college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge. |
April Issue 3 2012 |
Mixed reviews for Alaska's school funding increaseEducation leaders are content but not exuberant about a deal brokered over the course of the legislative session that went through many changes and ended with a $90.7 million increase of K-12 school funding. |
April Issue 3 2012 | |
Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debtThe federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job. But many borrowers these days are close to flunking out, tripped up by painful real-life lessons in math and economics. |
April Issue 1 2012 | |
Tighter security for SAT, ACT in wake of cheatingStudents taking college entrance exams this fall will have to submit photo IDs with their applications — a key security upgrade following a widespread cheating scandal at a number of high schools on New York's Long Island, a prosecutor and testing officials announced Tuesday. |
March Issue 4 2012 |
