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Associated Press
 Census: St. Louis population down 8 percent
 02/25/2011 St. Louis is losing residents, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, and the population decline goes deeper than being another blow to the proud city’s image. Steven S. Smith, a public policy professor at Washington University in St. Louis, agrees that something needs to […]

CNBC
 MetLife Foundation announces major awards to scientists for research in Alzheimer’s disease
 02/24/2011 The MetLife Foundation is honoring two noted researchers for their work in brain imaging. Randy L. Buckner, PhD, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Harvard University, and Marcus E. Raichle, MD, professor of radiology and neurology at Washington University School of […]

Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina) Missing Thomas Jefferson books found 2/22/2011 Seventy-four books that belonged to former US president Thomas Jefferson were found at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Link to Article See also Los Angeles Times, MSN India, Taiwan News, CBS News, Forbes MarketPlace | American Public Radio Apple shareholders curious about succession plan […]

The New York Times
 Books from Jefferson’s library turn up after more than a century
 02/22/2011 A literary detective story that began 18 months ago and was advanced through a chance reading of an 1880 edition of The Harvard Register has led researchers to a trove of books that were among the last ones collected […]

NBC TODAY Show Thomas Jefferson books discovered 2/21/2011 Ann Lucas from the International Center for Jefferson Studies and Shirley Baker, Washington University Dean of Libraries, talk about the discovery of 74 books belonging to Thomas Jefferson. These books, held at the university’s libraries for 131 years, have been confirmed by Monticello scholars as having belonged […]

Financial Times (London, England) A profile that spans the globe 2/14/2011 MBA and EMBA programmes — business degrees for working executives — are proliferating in China, mirroring the country’s economic growth. Such rapid growth, especially within the last decade, has meant that many of the top-tier universities in China have multiple and overlapping MBA and […]

U.S. News & World Report | HealthDay News Eating breakfast may lead teen moms to better health 2/15/2011 Teenagers, generally not renowned for their good eating habits, tend to have healthier weights and snacking habits when they start the day with breakfast, according to a study co-authored by Debra Haire-Joshu, a professor and director of […]

BBC | Earth News Prairie dogs kiss and cuddle for an audience 2/14/2011 A prairie dog kiss may be a form of social reassurance, much like a human kiss. It seems humans are not the only animals that change their behaviour when they are being watched. Captive prairie dogs — large and very sociable rodents— […]

Chronicle of Higher Education Dumped on by data: Scientists say a deluge Is drowning research 02/10/2011 The Human Connectome Project will allow researchers to navigate freely available data to come up with new ideas about the brain. “The insights emerge from comparing across a whole collection of studies looking at similar, but not identical, questions,” […]

Chronicle of Higher Education
 Colleges’ student health plans would offer more protections under proposed rules
 02/10/2011 Students on college-sponsored health insurance plans would receive protections similar to those that last year’s healthcare reform law is providing to the general population, under proposed regulations. “Until these regulations came out … it was a challenge working with […]