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• Thanks to This Sustainable Brewing Program, College Students Can Finally Major in Beer
• Newtown council votes to raze home of man who killed 26 students, educators at Sandy Hook
• Alcohol ads on TV tied to youth drinking risk
• Romney adds a Florida commencement speech to spring schedule
• Cubans look fondly to U.S. as talks to resume relations start
• Liberal Arts Colleges Where the Most Accepted Students Enroll

Thanks to This Sustainable Brewing Program, College Students Can Finally Major in Beer Posted: 21 Jan 2015 04:48 PM PST While you were busy riding your bicycle between your college's on-campus farm and your home-away-from-home at the local co-op, it may have seemed like you majored in sustainability in college—all while you nursed a bottle of craft brew, your unofficial concentration. Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Western Michigan University will offer the nation's first higher educational degree in sustainable brewing—a "2+2" program, allowing students to earn an associates degree at KVCC followed by a bachelors of science degree at WMU—beginning in fall 2015. The curriculum was developed with input from an advisory board featuring ten of Michigan's top craft brewers, including Dave Sippel, director of brewing operations at Arcadia Brewing Company, who is helping to design the brewing lab on the KVCC campus. Sippel said sustainability is "a very common theme that you see throughout the craft brewing industry," and it will inspire and inform the curiculum at the schools.

Newtown council votes to raze home of man who killed 26 students, educators at Sandy Hook Posted: 21 Jan 2015 04:44 PM PST NEWTOWN, Conn (AP) — Newtown council votes to raze home of man who killed 26 students, educators at Sandy Hook .

Alcohol ads on TV tied to youth drinking risk Posted: 21 Jan 2015 02:17 PM PST By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Young people who are more receptive to alcohol ads on TV may be at higher risk of problem drinking over the next few years, according to a new study. "If you compare low- to high-receptivity kids, their risk of transitioning to binge drinking was over four times higher," said Dr. James Sargent, the study's senior author from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Sargent and his colleagues write in JAMA Pediatrics that in 2013, about two thirds of U.S. high school students reported drinking. About a third reported drinking in the past month, and about one in five reported recent binge drinking, that is, five or more drinks on one occasion.

Romney adds a Florida commencement speech to spring schedule Posted: 21 Jan 2015 11:31 AM PST JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — As he decides whether to run for president a third time, Republican Mitt Romney has accepted an invitation to speak at Jacksonville University's spring graduation in the key presidential battleground of Florida.

Cubans look fondly to U.S. as talks to resume relations start Posted: 21 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST By David Adams HAVANA (Reuters) - Miguel Barnet, one of Cuba's most prominent Communist Party intellectuals, fondly recalls his teenage years in the 1950s, attending one of Havana's elite private schools, singing in the Episcopal church choir and performing in American musicals. "I love North American culture, I was shaped by it," Barnet, a 74-year-old noted poet and anthropologist who is also a member of Cuba's powerful Council of State, said at his office in Havana, where images of Cuba's revolutionary leaders, Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, adorn the walls. After more than five decades of hostility from Washington, most Cubans firmly oppose U.S. policies and the long economic embargo against their communist-led country but they admire U.S. culture. Many have relatives living in the United States, Cuban teenagers listen more to rap and hip hop than to home-grown son and salsa, and baseball is the country's most popular sport.

Liberal Arts Colleges Where the Most Accepted Students Enroll Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:30 AM PST Students may spend weeks, months or years stressing over which college to attend.

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