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Cultural clubs help to introduce students to college life, other students around campus.

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More than 30 groups serve as cultural ambassador on campus, including international and area studies clubs. International students can share their experiences and find friends from their home ...

I have to start out with an apology; I wanted to post a blog last night after the first day on the trade floor at DDT to provide you with insight into the show currently going on at the World Trade Center in Boston. But to be honest, I didn’t want to sound negative. For a number of reasons I haven’t been to DDT in over 5 years and so when I walked onto the trade floor yesterday I couldn’t...

HONOLULU (AP) — The diverse culture of the nation's 50th state — and the island nature of Hawaii itself — shaped Barack Obama's view of the world and the politics he would practice.

Those who knew him as a child say that view and those politics click with the themes of his Democratic presidential campaign. For Obama, though, Hawaii is even more personal, the place w...

Ah! a guilty secret! The sort of intriguing detail you might find woven into the plot of Ocean’s Eleven! Not that David Holmes — the bloke who created the very cool soundtrack for Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 update on the Las Vegas heist yarn — tries to cover his tracks when I mention Terry Hooley.

Hooley, a counter-culture icon in Belfast even before he released The ...

AMMAN - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg) announced the launch of the first Arabic electronic encyclopedia (TAGIPEDIA), the first initiative of its kind that targets Arab academics, scholars and readers, and provides them with general knowledge and sciences from an Arabic cultural, historical, and educational perspective.

TAGIPEDIA aims at founding a free-access database that d...

All set for Five Roses Thari Ya Sechaba grand finale

The grand finale for the Five Roses Thari Ya Sechaba Awards, which gives a number of deserving women recognition for their contributions to the society, is fast approaching.

The grand finale is billed for August 22 at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). So the stage is set, as finalists in all the categories have ...

In a district where young professionals live in airy lofts andflock to trendy restaurants and clubs, historians are intent onrevealing the buried remnants of Richmond's bustlingslave-trading past.

Construction equipment began digging this week in Shockoe Bottomat the former site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail, an infamous stop inthe former Confederate capitol's once-thriving commerce inenslav...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday.

Daniela Agre said her team found the four-wheel chariot during excavations near the village of Borisovo, around 180 miles east of the capital, Sofia.

"This is the first time that we have fo...

CALGARY — Researchers in Calgary are using cells from a rare form of childhood cancer to develop a new research techniques in hopes of sparking improvements in how the disease is studied.

A team of researchers in Calgary recently published an article in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology presenting a new way to grow an atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour - a rare and aggressive brain canc...

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(RTTNews) - After a two-day losing streak earlier in the week, the China stock market has finished higher in back-to-back sessions. Now with the Olympics set to open Friday evening in Beijing, the market is likely to rise again - although trade figures to be thin. The market is expected to shrug off global and regional weakness, as it has for much of the week leading up to the Olympics.

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