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• Education secretary ponders how to keep Hispanics in college (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Wash. school reopens after odor evacuation (AP)
• How to Launch Your Career In a Lousy Economy (U.S. News & World Report)

Education secretary ponders how to keep Hispanics in college (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:31 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that he wanted his department to help cut dropout rates and boost college enrollment for Hispanic Americans.

Wash. school reopens after odor evacuation (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2010 11:32 AM PDT AP - An elementary school in Tacoma, Wash., is open again, but officials haven't discovered the source of a sickening odor that forced students and staff to evacuate last week.

How to Launch Your Career In a Lousy Economy (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 19 Apr 2010 10:02 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Great careers often begin with inauspicious jobs. Jim Skinner's first job after he got out of the Navy was trainee at a McDonald's restaurant in Carpentersville, Ill. Today, Skinner is the CEO of McDonald's Corp. Before Evan Williams cofounded the wildly popular social networking site Twitter, the college dropout did odd technology-related jobs throughout the country and created several start-ups that never got off the ground.

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