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Report: N.C. community colleges key to state's changing economyThe report, “Facing Brutal Facts” by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, states that the community college system has several areas that need to be fixed. The first is helping non-traditional students succeed.
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Robotic suit could usher in super soldier eraRex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds - that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
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Senate votes to roll back media ownership ruleThe Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
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Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leaveYahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
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'$100 laptop' nonprofit, backed by Red Hat, now teamed with MicrosoftThe One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.
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- Newspaper: Duke cutting off service more often this year
Updated at 7:02 a.m. - NC-based Nucor considering Louisiana site for plant
Updated May. 15 11:33 a.m. - NC-based Blackwater Worldwide to help USO
Posted May. 15 2:42 p.m. - US Airways ramp and baggage workers ratify contract
Posted May. 15 5:16 p.m. - TVA board's 1st woman, only Democrat departing
Posted May. 15 6:36 p.m.
- Newspaper: Duke cutting off service more often this year
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- Raleigh-based International IT Services merges with California firm to form new company
Updated May. 15 10:46 a.m. - Hutchison Law Group opens RTP office
May. 14, 2008
- Raleigh-based International IT Services merges with California firm to form new company
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- France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple
Posted 39 minutes ago - '$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft
Posted at 6:55 a.m. - Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case
Updated at 4:28 a.m. - Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked
Updated May. 15 4:43 p.m. - NY Times, USA Today multiple online EPpy winners
Posted May. 15 7:44 p.m.
- France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple
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- Oil back above $125 in volatile trading
Posted at 6:21 a.m. - Stock futures up ahead of home construction data
Updated 23 minutes ago - Abercrombie profit edges up on sales increase
Updated 18 minutes ago - Macy's signs deal to put FAO Schwarz in its stores
Posted at 7:01 a.m. - BA annual profits more than doubles on int. travel
Posted at 6:59 a.m. - Japan's economy grows at 3.3 pct annual pace in 1Q
Posted at 12:57 a.m. - China tallies losses, costs from major earthquake
Updated at 5:24 a.m.
- Oil back above $125 in volatile trading
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- El Nino may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific
Updated May. 15 4:37 p.m. - Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment
Posted May. 15 2:01 p.m. - Da Vinci to be honored by small helicopter flight
Posted May. 15 3:05 p.m. - Huge project to restore Everglades to be suspended
Posted May. 15 10:32 p.m. - Polar bear gets new protection
May. 15, 2008
- El Nino may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific
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- Charlotte YMCA adding three branches
Posted May. 15 8:42 a.m. - Online fundraising grows
Posted May. 15 8:41 a.m.
- Charlotte YMCA adding three branches
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Investors flip out over SilkRoad, invest $54MWinston-Salem talent management services firm founded by ‘Flip’ Filipowski plans major expansion, names new CFO.
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