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Larry Page: 5 Facts About Google's Founder and Next CEO

Huge news from Google: Co-founder Larry Page will replace CEO Eric Schmidt beginning in April. The unexpected announcement was made in a release detailing Google's fourth-quarter earnings, signaling a major shake-up for the search engine giant. Page ran Google with co-founder Sergey Brin until 2001, when the pair hired...

End of UConn's Streak Restores Competition to Women's Basketball

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- There were two minutes and change left in the life of a 90-game winning streak, and the best female player on these shores ducked her head, a move equivalent to waving a white flag. Maya Moore had been erratic all night, an obvious sign something was definitely amiss, but when she missed another...

Are Study Breaks Biologically Necessary?

(Oct. 18) -- Your cat naps, candy runs and little Oprah reposes aren't actually helping you ace that cramming session. In fact, a new study suggests that the necessary nature of "study breaks" is little more than mind over matter. First, the conventional wisdom: "Students who may already have trouble studying are being...

Viral Hit of the Worst Kind: Flu Season Meets iPads, Touch Screens

(Oct. 14) -- How to keep a hot spot from becoming a hot zone of germs? Over the past year, touch-screen technology has swept the globe. And now, with the start of cold and flu season, the world is about to experience just how social old-fashioned viruses can be. The same week it was announced that Apple had reached a...

Background on Stanford

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an campus near Palo Alto, California, United States.

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