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  Public Libraries Help Erase Digital Divide

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:31 PM ET

  A new initiative by the Knight Foundation aims to enable more public libraries to offer patrons Internet services and training. Read More

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  NSF Funds Research Competitiveness

  By John Casey | Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:42 PM ET

  National Science Foundation is putting $20 million over five years into growing research competitiveness in six U.S. states, which include Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, South Carolina and South Dakota. An article on the NSF Web site details how awards "are intended to improve the researc Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, Hawaii, biodiversity, National Science Foundation, Maine, Sustainable Development, South Dakota, Invasive Species, Mississippi State University
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  Help End Hunger: Feed Your Mind

  By Intent dot com | Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:05 PM ET

  vacations these children go hungry.  Feeding America has come up with the “BackPack Program” to help these kids.  The program started at the ArKansas Rice Depot, after a school nurse asked for help because hungry students were coming to her with stomachaches and dizziness.  The local foo Read More

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  Giving Students a Better Chance at the AP Exams

  By Marc Hertz | Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:02 PM ET

  and The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, aims to improve math and science education in the United States. NMSI selected six states -- Alabama, ArKansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Virginia -- to take part in its AP Training and Initiative Program (APTIP). The program' Read More

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  Grad School for Good

  By Katherine Gustafson | Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:59 PM ET

  free on the Idealist grad fairs page. And make sure to remember your necktie and your heart, pinned to your sleeve. Photo courtesy o Read More

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  Lottery Lightning Strikes Twice

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:58 PM ET

  whopping $900,000."When I hit $75,000, I figured lightning struck once, it won't ever hit again," Williams said in a prepared statement released by Kansas Lottery officials, according to the Associated Press. "This one knocked me flat!"In case you’re thinking of using Williams as a bit o Read More

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• Surprise Cakewalk

  By Lisa Germinsky | Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:46 PM ET

  and anguish any day of the week.”The now-famous creation is based on a modified version of a recipe from the late LaDonna Veverka-Schneider, a Kansas woman whom Logan met while filming a documentary on the black television pioneer Lorenzo Fuller. Veverka-Schneider's daughter says her mothe Read More

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• Don't Truck With Polluting Moving

  By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:35 PM ET

  renters have donated to help the Fund plant 133,000 oak, hickory and pecan trees to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. The trees are planted in Kansas' Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge and Louisiana's Red River National Wildlife Refuge. It turns out the cost of moving is much mor Read More

  More like this in: The Conservation Fund, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Offset, U-Haul, Science, Social Responsibility, Life & Style, Environment, Giving, Fundraising, Activism, Home & Garden
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  Good Cooking: Anthony Bourdain

  By Lauren Harper McMenamin | Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:55 AM ET

  Delicatessen (New York City)10) Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)11) Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo)12) Hot Doug's (Chicago)13) Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue (Kansas City, Kansas)One last word -- or food for thought, if you will. Anthony Bourdain constantly reminds his audience how hard it was to work in the industry Read More

  More like this in: Health, New York, New York City, Charity, California, London, India, Water, China, Washington, Chicago, Brazil
• Why I Love Kansas

  By Elizabeth Mattke | Wed May 20, 2009 2:16 PM ET

  and innovation to make their business thrive in the heart of the “breadbasket of the world.” If I had a choice, I would rather live in Kansas because it is full of opportunity and life. Why would anyone not want to live in a place in the middle of the United States of America? Som Read More

  More like this in: Coca Cola, Business, United States, Wheat