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Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education. The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational.

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More than 40 years after John Lennon wrote Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, his son has gone to the help of the real Lucy, who is now suffering from an incurable disease.

MIAMI--Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America's biggest political scandal, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92. The Cuban-born former CIA operative who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion...

Is a broad mandate that Americans have medical insurance a workable way to begin health care reform? Would taking a bolder step be more efficient or more disruptive? The NYT is asking for your input.

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The FBI is investigating allegations that superiors at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's police training academy coerced sex from female cadets, a newspaper report said.

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