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Sports meet - Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh: The third sports meet of DC Montessori Smart School, Mani Majra, was held on Saturday. Students of classes I to X participated in a variety of races ranging from button up race, crocodile race, three-legged race, slow cycling and relay race ...
Making the Grade: 2015-2016 school year - nwitimes.com
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nwitimes.com
The Catholic school has numerous clubs and extracurricular activities, including a chess club, Spanish club, stock market club, volleyball, wrestling, cross country and soccer. The school's Science Olympiad team placed 13th in the state last year ...
Three Reasons You Should Get High - PsychCentral.com (blog)
PsychCentral.com (blog)
PsychCentral.com (blog)
For others the high comes in less obvious ways – when the arc of the story comes together effortlessly and the words just fall onto the page, when the colors all combine seamlessly on the canvas, and when immersed in a challenging game of chess ...
Martin Shkreli, the Bad Boy of Pharmaceuticals, Hits Back - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
Most recently, he live-streamed hours of himself at his desk, talking to co-workers and viewers about medical research and investments and tapping at his computer (action high point: hair-twirling). Last month, he and a group of investors took a large ...
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Best Books: Here's what we liked in 2015 - STLtoday.com
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STLtoday.com
Blume, the much-loved author of classics such as “Are You There God? It's Me Margaret” uses her own childhood and meticulous research to recreate a pivotal time in the country's history with her typical brilliance at knowing how a teenage girl would ...
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Viewfinder: Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Fuller is uniqueamong New England museums, not only because it hosts the Fuller Chess Club matches and the Spiegel Cup Tournament qualifying event for the State Scholastic Championship. But it is also one of only eight institutions in the country ...
Scientists say left-handed people may be smarter in one key way - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
As is so often the case with social science research, the frustrating answer is "it depends." But there are certain cognitive domains where left-handed people ... In the paper, Coren notes that his results might help explain why lefties are more common ...
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How Facebook's AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
These machines search through all possible moves to find the strongest. While this brute force approach works well in draughts and chess, it does not work well in Go because of the sheer number of possible positions on a board. In draughts, the number ...
UMaine Cuts Tuition Price To Lure Connecticut Students - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
The folks from Downeast are offering Connecticut high school seniors a deal they might not want to pass up: Go to the University of Maine next fall for the same price as this year's in-state rate at UConn. That's right. Like all public universities ...
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Scholastic chess tournament offers action and life lessons - AL.com
AL.com
AL.com
Sun Valley Elementary School chess coach Brad Fournier keeps a close watch on his club members. Sun Valley chess players competed in the recent Birmingham Dancing Knights Scholastic Tournament. "It really says a lot about these students when they ...
As I See It: 'Spotlight' shines on importance of investigative journalism - Main Line
Main Line
The Spotlight team uncovered a longtime practice by church leaders of simply moving around these men to other parishes like chess pieces instead of punishing them. But getting to the truth in a predominantly Catholic city was met with roadblocks every ...
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Using Card and Board Games to Keep Minds Sharp - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
During the last two summers, Mr. Wieder has flown to Missouri to spend four days at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis watching even better players compete. “It's like sending your brain to the gym,” he said. Mr. Wieder plays in ...
Using Card and Board Games to Keep Minds Sharp - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
While many older people are attracted to mind challenges and computer games, others like Mr. Wieder embrace competition in tried-and-true games like bridge, poker and chess. ... Research released in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found ...
Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Greece Post
Greece Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
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Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Gates-Chili Post
Gates-Chili Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
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Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Brighton-Pittsford Post
Brighton-Pittsford Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
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Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Irondequoit Post
Irondequoit Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
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Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Henrietta Post
Henrietta Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
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Memorial Art Gallery to feature short film by Marcel Dzama - Penfield Post
Penfield Post
The Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., will showcase “Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester's Dance),” a 2013 video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama from Dec. 10 to Jan. 24. The silent black-and-white work, which is repeated twice over 35 minutes ...
PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 7, 2015 - Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
The plot is almost secondary, though there is an excess of it: a cross-country chess tournament tour with Eli, a prodigy and Maloney's “redneck Virgil”; an attack on a suburban house involving a hot air balloon; and a game of wits with a blind bounty ...