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Finding burial spot for Boston bomber

...the body to Denver.If Russia refuses to accept the body, Cambridge may be forced to take it, said Wake Forest University professor Tanya Marsh, an expert in U.S. law on the disposal of human remains.Massachusetts law requires every community...

http://juneauempire.com/denise-lavoie/2013-05-07/finding-burial-spot-boston-bomb
Black voter turnout passes whites in 2012

...constituency of young voters not participating at a high level, is good news," said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who specializes in voter turnout. "The bad news is that voting is a habit - and the fact that we saw turnout...

http://juneauempire.com/hope-yen/2013-05-09/black-voter-turnout-passes-whites-20
The enigma of support for higher education: Impact on Alaska

...University: "In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education." Harvard University professor Clayton Christensen goes further in predicting "wholesale bankruptcies" of standard universities in the next...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-04-04/enigma-support-higher-education-impac
Opinion
'Transgenerational trauma' discussed at UAS

...historical violence and discrimination and reconcile them with the present.The panel also featured Arizona State University professors Martin Beck Matu?tik and Patricia Huntington, who are in Juneau for the symposium.Matu?tik, whose mother...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-09/transgenerational-trauma-discussed-uas
State
Sitka artist wins $50,000 national award

...Artist Award in 2011, is presently commuting between Sitka and Victoria, British Columbia, where he is a guest university professor this year.This is the seventh year that USA, an arts advocacy group, has given fellowship grants. In that time it...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-12-06/sitka-artist-wins-50000-national-award
Art
TSA flouts the law on body scanners

...economically wasteful even if they worked as well as TSA claims, but may actually make us less safe.Ohio State University professor John Mueller has done a thorough analysis of U.S. air travel security. He found that even assuming the scanners...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-08-06/tsa-flouts-law-body-scanners
Opinion
Scholar: Jesus cites wife in ancient script

BOSTON - A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-09-19/scholar-jesus-cites-wife-ancient-scri
Not For Web
Change the World Bank needs

...process of selecting the president has been challenged both within the United States and from abroad. Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs started a campaign for choosing a development professional as the head of the World Bank and floated...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-18/change-world-bank-needs
Opinion
Author returns to Alaska for fish and stories

...guests. Then they rigged their fly rods and headed upriver for rainbow trout. She would like to be a full-time university professor. And of course she has more writing in her immediate future. "Some of these characters," she said, "I'm...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2011-08-24/author-returns-alaska-fish-and-storie
Not For Web
The lonely hunters of 'Project Nim'

...chimps actually blowing up bridges.The documentary will be opening in Juneau this week.In the 1970s, Columbia University Professor Herb Terrace decided to see what would happen if he attempted to teach a chimpanzee how to "speak." The chimp...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-09-08/lonely-hunters-project-nim
Art

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