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• Army trauma expert quit after admitting PhD fraud
• Grief, rage at 36-year sentence for ferry captain
• Portland schools urged to scrap transfers to boost racial diversity

Army trauma expert quit after admitting PhD fraud Posted: 11 Nov 2014 10:37 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army statistician obtained a security clearance and worked for years on sensitive battlefield trauma research while lying about holding advanced degrees, the Army has acknowledged.

Grief, rage at 36-year sentence for ferry captain Posted: 11 Nov 2014 06:04 AM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Enraged parents wept and screamed as a judge sentenced a South Korean ferry captain to 36 years in prison Tuesday for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.

Portland schools urged to scrap transfers to boost racial diversity Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:11 AM PST By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - A citizen's group in Portland, Oregon, said on Monday the city should drop policies allowing students to transfer public schools, saying it is making the schools less racially diverse and poorer. "It's mostly white, mostly middle-class families, transferring out of schools that have students of color," said Kali Thorne Ladd, a member of the group which had been asked by educators to evaluate Portland Public Schools transfer policies. ...

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