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ALL MEMBERS »The respected Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a new report on the scramble for academic earmarks. A surprise, considering how well the University of Washington does in federally funded research and how well placed Sen. Patty Murray is: The UW is not among the leading porkers.
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As the drama continues in the subprime mortgage lending crisis, it's a fair question to ask: Just who is to blame for this mess?
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Despite the absence of a known cause, University of Washington researchers focus on autism prevention. It's an innovative, if somewhat controversial, approach.
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSThere's a clerk at the local grocery who has a bar code tattooed on his wrist, which I took as a sly commentary from a guy who spends much of his day sliding food items over a scanner to a mind-numbing "beep beep." I finally had to ask him: Is it real? Nope, he said. But I think I can be forgiven having a moment's hesitation about it because young people today seem to have a different sense of privacy. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, iPhones, MacBooks...your entire life can be tracked, recorded, photographed and broadcast — and soon, scanned. What does privacy even mean in a world like that?
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