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• Weekend Top 10 entertainment events

  - 2008-07-31

  1. John Mellencamp and Lucinda Williams: Mellencamp's the headliner at this Greek Theatre show, but shameless faux-hipsters like myself will be more keyed up for the divine singer-songwriter Williams, who boasts one of the best country-rock voices ever. Details: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road,...

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• Stanford Medicine Explores Implications of the Graying Globe

  - 2008-04-08

  Redesigned Magazine Web Site Offers Additional Features STANFORD, Calif. -- Face it, you're getting old -- most likely, really old. And you're most definitely not alone. Just 100 years ago, life expectancy in the United States was 47. Now it's 77. Similar increases in life span are under...

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• College giving up in 07; Stanford University receives most

  - 2008-02-20

  Donations to colleges and universities rose solidly last year, to a record of nearly $30 billion, with the wealthiest universities again attracting a hugely disproportionate share, a new survey shows. But the economic downturn means the fundraising pace for 2008 could slow. Private donations to higher education...

  Tags: endowment, MARKETING, Stanford University, survey

• Big Oil U Pilloried on 'Boston Legal' Season Premier

  - 2007-09-26

  To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: John M. Simpson of Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, +1-310-392-0522, ext. 317, +1-310-292-1902, cell SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ABC's popular show "Boston Legal" took its plot for the season premier from the controversy surrounding Big Oil's growing influence on the nation's colleges and...

  Tags: Exxon Mobil Corp., FINANCE, MARKETING, Stanford, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley

• Stanford Cancer Survivors Share Their Advice, Insights in New Book

  - 2007-07-18

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Few chemotherapy patients would think to decorate their bald heads with stickers of bowling balls, or of bunny rabbits saying, "Wish you were hare." "I always had stickers with a bald theme," said Julie Barrow, 52, whose life was first interrupted by cancer in 2001 and...

  Tags: MARKETING, patient, Stanford, Stanford University

• Stanford International Outreach Program Launches Mobile Learning Project in Africa

  - 2007-07-05

  PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Stanford University's International Outreach Program IOP is changing the way universities think about distance learning. In April 2007, IOP launched the Dunia Moja Project - "one world" in Swahili - at Stanford and three partnering universities in Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa. The mobile-learning pilot project...

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• Tour of friendship, not farewell: Downer.

  - 2007-05-27

  Byline: Tony Walker May 27, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, has denied that his latest visit to the US is a final "lap of honour". He says the visit was inspired by his...

  Tags: Australia, friendship, Leadership, MARKETING, Stanford University

• School Bullying Affects Majority of Elementary Students, Stanford/Packard Researchers Find

  - 2007-04-12

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Nine out of 10 elementary students have been bullied by their peers, according to a simple questionnaire developed by researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine. What's more, nearly six in 10 children surveyed in the preliminary study reported participating in...

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• International: Robert Sutton of Stanford University doesn't mince his words about the cost of employing 'workplace jerks'

  - 2007-02-01

  Lars Dalgraad is CEO and founder of SuccessFactors, a global human resource management software firm. Last September, Dalgraad listed the milestones that his company achieved: real usage by 2 million employees, in 18 languages and in 139 countries worldwide; growth at three times that of their nearest competitor; almost 100...

  Tags: Google Inc., MARKETING, Southwest Airlines Co., Stanford University, SuccessFactors Inc., workplace

• Krensky Named to Newly Created NIH Post

  - 2007-01-30

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Alan Krensky, MD, professor of pediatrics immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of immunology and transplantation biology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as the agency's first deputy director for the Office of Portfolio Analysis...

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