The pressures of school performance often place college students in difficult situations, pushing them toward alternative methods to try to raise their grades. While performance-enhancing drugs are rampant in athletics, a recent study shows that in one Ivy League school, students are turning to these medications for similar reasons. A few days ago, this study was […]
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For several years, the leaders of the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas have felt that the surrounding grounds were not reflective of the excellent services the museum provides. This year, they’ve decided to step the landscaping up from “adequate” to “excellence.” The museum has announced the launch of an incredible $1 million “Riverview Art Garden” project. […]
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In the wake of 2014’s Polar Vortex, it seems like this summer will bring with it a Solar Vortex, as experts are predicting this will be one of the hottest, stifling, oppressively humid summers in generations. “It looks like it’s going to be an oppressively hot and humid summer for the New York area,” said managing […]
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A recent study from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has turned up some troubling results: American banks are lending far more money, far more often to big businesses than to small businesses. At the end of 2012, just as many businesses were starting to see faint glimmers of recovery, loans to big businesses had climbed by […]
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In the May issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, which hit newsstands April 8, “The Big Bang Theory” actress Kaley Cuoco shares some candid details. The 28-year-old opened up about her breast implants, which she got in 2004 during the time she starred in the TV comedy “8 Simple Rules.” She referred to her choice to undergo […]
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On Thursday, April 10, two toddlers were found drowning on top of a neighbor’s covered pool in Center Township, Ind. They died soon after being pulled from the pool, according to USA Today. Twins Shaylyn and Jocelyn Spurlock, 2, had wandered out of their home and climbed onto the neighbor’s covered, above-ground pool, Maj. Terry […]
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