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Athletic Scholarships – a bad thing for higher education?

Friday, January 12th, 2007

According to this NPR piece by Frank Deford, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Burmingham Southern decided to do "the unthinkable." The board voted their college out of the business of athletic entertainment. Where students play sports because they want to, not because they're paid performers. They completely dropped all athletic ...

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iPhone – Apple’s incredible new product!

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Wow! Wow! Wow! Listen to Steve Jobs's Keynote at the Macworld Expo 2007. He introduces the iPhone, what he calls a "widescreen iPod, revolutionary phone, and a breakthrough internet device". He frames the introduction of the product by putting it in the context of the the revolutionary ...

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