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The preschool puzzle (Palo Alto Weekly)
With dozens of schools to choose from, and competition to get in, are parents' fears about picking preschools real or imagined?
Read more...Holiday shopping: A guide to gift guides (Naples Daily News)
Need some help sorting through the dizzying array of gift guides? Here are some of the more distinctive gifts from the annual gift guides by major specialty publications.
Read more...NZVCC briefing document sent to ministers (Scoop.co.nz)
The NZVCC has produced a briefing document for the new government and has sent copies to the new Minister of Education and Minister for Tertiary Education, Anne Tolley, the Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Dr Wayne Mapp, and the Minister for Infrastructure, Hon Bill English.
Read more...Letters to the Editor (The Martha's Vineyard Times)
November 19 came and went without any notice, which is extraordinary, given recent events. On that day, 145 years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief speech at a ceremony in a small town in Pennsylvania to commemorate the establishment of a national cemetery for victims of the battle of Gettysburg.
Read more...The visionary who made history (The Herald)
When merchant banker and Gaelic enthusiast Sir Iain Noble arrived to live on Skye in 1972, he embarked on a fund-raising campaign to convert a farm steading. He wanted to build "the first Gaelic establishment of further education in Scotland since the Vikings burned down Columba's abbey on Iona."
Read more...Namibia: Old Mutual Donates N$300 000 to the Polytechnic Library (AllAfrica.com)
Old Mutual Namibia and the Polytechnic of Namibia signed a three-year agreement. The insurer and assurance giant will provide financial support to the Polytechnic's library.
Read more...Business: The WiMAX revolution (The New Straits Times)
IN 1990, MIMOS (now MIMOS Bhd) launched JARING (Joint Advanced Research Integrated NetworkinG project), the first Malaysian Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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