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...Corinthian College (COCO) shares are up well over 100% this year. It is another highly successful company in the education field which should benefit from the need of people out of work to develop new skills. In the most recent quarter, the company's profits rose 86% and it increased its forecast for the current year. The firm's CEO recently said "Although difficult to quantify, current trends indicate that the recession has helped increase marketing leads and student enrollment." It sounds like Corinthian may be hiring. On-line education is definitely in the boom phase of expansion...
...Diagnostics, where he was promised a sizeable research fund of $10 million and an 8,000 square-foot lab space to work with. LaBaer, the founder and current director of the Institute of Proteomics at Harvard Medical School, is one of a handful of innovators in the relatively new field of proteomics, the study of protein structure and function. He said that he wanted to accept the offer in order to focus more on his career goal: developing personalized medicine technologies that would allow doctors to treat patients by tailoring medicines to their individual genomes. LaBaer’s research...
...want to do anything else [but act],” Gallo said, “but I don’t have the fear other actors have because I got an education, I have this degree, and I know if I have to go into another field, I can.” After graduating, Gallo made her Aptow connection, co-starring alongside Seth Rogen in Aptow’s TV show, “Undeclared.”“On ‘Undeclared’ I was actually the only person who had gone to college...
...When somebody has a nervous breakdown, what is actually breaking down? We’re beginning to claw our way there.”But as Sanes and Lichtman seek to add to human understanding, they say they’re also hoping to attract undergrads to their field. Both teach MCB 80: “Neurobiology of Behavior,” where they say the sheer amount of new material in recent years illustrates the growing importance of neurobiology.“Sometimes there is this feeling that science has gone only so far, and all there is left...
...stranglehold on nationwide TV broadcasting, the three main television networks - NBC, ABC and CBS - could misuse their broadcast licenses to set a biased public agenda. The Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance, was meant to level the playing field. Congress backed the policy in 1954, and by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the "single most important requirement of operation in the public interest - the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...