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Today WGU is the nation's largest supplier of math and science teachers in urban school districts. And its alumni are hired by such FORTUNE 500 companies as Microsoft and AT&T. "[WGU] has earned a reputation for producing high-quality graduates, particularly in education," says Kevin Kinser, a professor at New York's University of Albany who studies online learning and is not affiliated with...
...Some of the ideas you see tonight may be captivating, some may be controversial, and that’s okay,” said Steven G. Cecil, a principal architect at the Cecil Group, an urban planning firm that is advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...movies they became, though I would argue that one of his most profound accomplishments was “ER.” Using his background as a trained physician, Crichton not only created and wrote a convincing television series that revealed the chaos of a typical urban emergency room, but he also did so with a previously unparalleled level of accuracy. Though past cast members George Clooney and Noah Wyle didn’t know a laryngoscope from pericardiocentesis, trained doctors and nurses were brought in to consult during production in order to make the show as realistic as possible.Threaded...
...earthquake beneath one of our metropolitan centers yet," Allen says. "For example, in '89, the quake started beneath the mountains. There was some damage in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, but San Francisco was more than 60 miles away. When an earthquake occurs in densely populated urban areas, the fatalities will be much higher...
...look now, but here comes Europe's violent extreme-left again. Two decades after French police busted the radical group Action Directe, which waged a bloody urban guerrilla war during the 1970s and 1980s against French business and military interests, French authorities on Tuesday nabbed a group of anarchists suspected of having sabotaged the nation's high-speed rail system over the last several weeks. The arrests aim not only to put an end to the spate of vandalism that had wreaked havoc and panic among French travelers for the past two weeks; they may also derail any violent plans...