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The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent

Living with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan...

Oxbridge Gone Wild: Stripping Skiers Scare Off Sponsor

LONDON -- You don't need a Ph.D. to know that students plus skiing and schnapps equals trouble. But when 2,500 undergraduates from Britain's Oxford and Cambridge universities headed off on their annual ski jaunt last month, the results were so debauched that an angry sponsor has pledged to never again get involved with the...

Determined Rescuers Save Dog Stranded on Frozen Pond

After several failed attempts, rescuers donned survival gear and retrieved a lost dog that had been skittering around the frozen surface of a 160-acre reservoir for days. Gibson, a 4-year-old Sheltie mix, had been missing for several days when a slew of callers rang the nonprofit Animal Rescue League of Boston to report a...

New Director Takes Singing Into Future at Last Boys' Choir School [VIDEO]

As enrollment declines at Catholic schools around the country, the last remaining Catholic boys' choir school in the United States has hired a new director, reports The Boston Globe. Supplying a positive answer to the question of falling student numbers, the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School welcomed a young Englishman,...

Thousands of UK Students Protest Tuition Hikes

LONDON (Nov. 10) -- Tens of thousands of students marched noisily through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and some tried to occupy the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party, in the largest street protest yet against the government's sweeping austerity measures. Organizers...

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Duchess Of Cambridge Kate Dazzles At Private Dinner

The Duchess of Cambridge dazzled in a floor-length cream gown with thigh-high split as she attended a private dinner with her husband on Tuesday.

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Caesarian Sunday Sees Cambridge Students Drinking Port Out Of Condoms, Stripping And Vomiting In Park

Drinking port out of condoms, stripping naked, vomiting and drinking themselves unconscious.

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Are State Schools Biased Against Oxbridge?

We're reading more and more that the onus of getting students from non-Oxbridge backgrounds to apply to the country's two oldest universities is shifting from the universities' access teams, to the teachers with the power to motivate their brightest students.

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Nokia experiments with location-based white space services in Cambridge, UK (video)

Following news of the first successful white space trials in Cambridge, UK, Nokia is now touting its research in the area with a demonstration of location-based services for the unlicensed spectrum.

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Duchess Kate And Prince William Meet Scott-Amundsen North Pole Re-Enactment Soldiers

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were praised today for championing a group of soldiers who recreated the famous Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole. William and Kate were greeted by sunshine that had followed heavy showers when they arrived at Goldsmiths' Hall in the City of London to meet the adventurers after their...

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05/26/12 Undo Software Receives Venture Funding Source: PRWeb Cambridge, UK (PRWEB UK) 26 May 2012 Undo Software has spent the last seven years developing and refining its tools that mean developers can (literally) fix bugs in minutes that may otherwise have taken weeks to find.
05/25/12 Jobs at city's Â£7 billion tech firm "now safe" Source: BBC Cambridgeshire Hundreds of Cambridge jobs at risk from a computer giant's global cull are now believed to be safe.
05/25/12 Bayshore Shopping Centre embarks on $200-million... Source: PR Newswire OTTAWA , May 25, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Ivanhoé Cambridge announced today a $200-million investment in Bayshore Shopping Centre, boosting the centre's retail area by 160,000 square feet (14,900 m 2 ).
05/25/12 Ahead of the Curve with a Cambridge Architectural Mesh... Source: PRWeb Cambridge, MD (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 An unorthodox curvature of architectural mesh gives the new Iron Horse Trail Pedestrian Bridge in Contra Costa County, Calif., an unconventional design while providing safety for users, as well as the traffic on the road below.
05/24/12 Â£9m cash 'victory' will cut congestion and boost... Source: BBC Cambridgeshire Congestion in Cambridge will be tackled after the county council was handed Â£9 million of funding for new transport schemes.