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• 1 dead after pickup plows into Calif. schoolgirls (AP)
• Ala. university recovering a year after shootings (AP)
• Montana school board to vote on mascot change (AP)
• 5 Tips for New Economy Entrepreneurs (U.S. News & World Report)
• NYU Professor's Skull-Implanted Camera Gives Him a Headache (PC Magazine)
• Special Report: In Saudi Arabia, a clamor for education (Reuters)

1 dead after pickup plows into Calif. schoolgirls (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST AP - The driver of a pickup truck ran a stop sign and plowed into a group of California junior high school students, killing one girl and injuring four others, police said as they interviewed witnesses Thursday to determine what caused the crash.

Ala. university recovering a year after shootings (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST AP - It's been a year since a Harvard-educated professor opened fire during a faculty meeting in a conference room at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, killing three colleagues and wounding three others. Ever since, those staff meetings have been held elsewhere.

Montana school board to vote on mascot change (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 11:27 AM PST AP - A southern Montana school district's trustees will vote next week on whether the district's public high school should drop its Redskins mascot.

5 Tips for New Economy Entrepreneurs (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:50 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - Recent college graduates frustrated with a slow job market are increasingly deciding to take matters into their own hands. A recent HarrisInteractive online pool found that over four in ten 18-to-24-year-olds have considered starting their own small business. But before plunging thousands of dollars into a new website or other start-up costs, consider these five tips from small business experts Karin Abarbanel and Bruce Freeman, coauthors of Birthing the Elephant:

NYU Professor's Skull-Implanted Camera Gives Him a Headache (PC Magazine) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 05:31 AM PST PC Magazine - Last fall, an NYU professor made headlines when he had a camera implanted in the back of his head for a year-long art project. Now Wafaa Bilal has been forced to have part the device removed early, because his body has rejected it, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

Special Report: In Saudi Arabia, a clamor for education (Reuters) Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:13 AM PST Reuters - Saudi teenager Abdulrahman Saeed lives in one of the richest countries in the world, but his prospects are poor, he blames his education, and it's not a situation that looks like changing soon.

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