Recall: Public schools waiting for Superman
This year the Texas Lege made massive cuts to public education. What are the effects here in San Antonio? According to Pascual Gonzalez, public information officer at Northside ISD, it's the same everywhere you look. "Statewide what you find is less teachers, less resources, more students. Everyone's class load increased because we aren't hiring." NISD, whose superintendent John Folks was named ...
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UCSD student finds sweet success with Secret Cookie Service
A UCSD student was in a chemistry Ph.D. program when he found the key ingredient to his future financial success: his mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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CW3PR Creates Luxury Oasis for VIPs With its RE:treat Lounge During the 2012 Sundance Film Festival's Opening Weekend
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CW3PR's famed "Sky Lodge RE:treat Lounge" quickly became one of the hottest gifting lounges and coveted nighttime party venues at the 2012 Sundance ...
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Top 10 Things I Saw at London Toy Fair 2012
Toy Fair season is upon us now, with the London one running this week, Nuremberg starting next week and finally the biggie in New York on February 12th. I went for my first time as “press” and here are my favorite things from around the exhibition floor.
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The Big Pink: Future This
Expectations are tricky things. Follow too closely and you're boring, not at all and you'll alienate your audience. With Future This , The Big Pink has found an interesting middle ground. They've made an album that seems to set after-the-fact expectations, though it doesn't always meet them. If you were expecting triumphal shoegaze, you can find it in "Hit the Ground (Superman)," where processed ...
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