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Embracing History to Make History
Clark College, one of five U.S. mentor colleges in the new Plus 50 Initiative, welcomes educational leaders with a visit to Fort Vancouver and a focus on history, tourism and second careers for older workers VANCOUVER, Wash. A visit to Fort Vancouver may result in…
Author: Clark College / Plus 50 Initiative
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CITY KIDS GET TECH SUPPORT
Original Source By DAN AVERY A few years ago, Frank Rogers found himself at a crossroads. The child of drug addicts, he spent most of his childhood in New York City’s notorious foster-care system, bouncing between homes in Harlem, Brooklyn and the South Bronx. By…
Author: New York Post
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK – Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
Author: The Journal News
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Commission Promotes Age Discrimination Laws
Commission Promotes Age Discrimination Laws The Equality Commission today (Monday 2 October) launched a campaign promoting new age discrimination laws which protect workers, job seekers and vocational trainees from discrimination because of their age. The launch in Equality House, Belfast was attended by Minister of…
Author: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
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Opthalmology centre to open in Hue
Original Source THUA THIEN-HUE – The Health Ministry and the provincial authority of Thua Thien-Hue yesterday broke ground for the Hue Ophthalmology and Training Centre, a US$4 million addition to Hue Central Hospital. The centre is expected to significantly upgrade services to patients with severe…
Author: VietNam News Agency
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UTMB to Train Cuban Scientists
GALVESTON, Texas— The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will embark on a two-year research development program to collaborate with Cuban scientists at the Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana to better fight infectious diseases, especially in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions. The…
Author: The University of Texas Medical Branch
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives €138m Grant to Tackle Dementia
By Carl O’Brien Atlantic Philanthropies is to give €138 million – its largest grant to date – to Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco to help tackle the looming dementia epidemic. Almost 50,000 people are living with dementia in Ireland, a number which is projected…
Author: The Irish Times
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Department of Homeland Security-funded counterterror trainings smear Muslims
PRA’s groundbreaking exposé of how tax dollars fund anti-Muslim trainings for police and counterterrorism personnel won the attention of news outlets and policy makers at its release this spring. We’ve been keeping the pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to stop funding flawed and bigoted…
Author: PRA in the News
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A bridge across the River Foyle
By Meabh Ritchie Religious feeling runs high on the two sides of Derry, but Northern Ireland’s Sharing Education Programme sees Catholic and Protestant pupils working together, reports Meabh Ritchie It may be early summer, but sheets of rain are slicing the landscape in two and…
Author: TES Connect
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UH professor helps boost Vietnam's clinics
KHANH HOA PROVINCE, Vietnam. When patients at the government-run health clinic in Ninh Tho used to complain about waiting too long to see a doctor or nurse, the staff would just ignore them, manager Pham Thi Thanh Can said. “Before the (customer service) training, we…
Author: Advertiser Star