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Online Education by Discipline: a Graduate Student's Guide 09/17/2014 12:00am • The transition into the digital age has led to the rise of distance learning. When it comes to graduate online degree programs, however, experts say some academic disciplines are adopting this new form of education more quickly than others. When considering whether an online graduate degree is the 'Midlife Bliss:' Can the Midlife Crisis Be Averted? 09/17/2014 12:00am • John Friary was always a good science and math student. Throughout his childhood and adolescence, he thought about going into medicine, but working with sick people seemed too stressful, so he became a biostatistician instead. That was a good fit -- for a while. His math skills were put to the test 8 Tacky Job Search Faux Pas 09/17/2014 12:00am • Get some class!There are good, bad and straight-up ugly ways to job search. The last route involves zero tact or self-awareness, and it often rubs both current and prospective employers the wrong way. Job seek with some grace. U.S. News asked career and etiquette experts to reveal tremendously tacky Doctor to provide medical update on Toronto mayor 09/16/2014 11:10pm • ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- A doctor will provide a medical update on controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's tumor on Wednesday, Ford's brother said.The mayor has been hospitalized since last Wednesday with a tumor in his abdomen. Biopsy results were expected to take a week.Ford wit Ban: UN 'taking lead' on global fight on Ebola 09/16/2014 10:30pm • TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The head of the United Nations said Tuesday that the world body is "taking the lead now" on international efforts to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that has killed some 2,400 people and could spread further.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Nats beat Braves 4-2 to close in on NL East title 09/16/2014 10:02pm • CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) -- A strong and healthy Stephen Strasburg has the Washington Nationals feeling optimistic about their postseason chances.Strasburg pitched seven scoreless innings to end a long run of frustration against Atlanta, and the Nationals beat the struggling Braves Teen critical from stun gun; FBI investigates case 09/16/2014 08:13pm • BILL DRAPER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Doctors were trying Tuesday to awaken a suburban Kansas City teenager who was put in a medically induced coma after a police officer critically injured him with a stun gun in an incident the FBI is investigating.Bryce Masters, 17, of Independence Dolphins center Mike Pouncey returns to practice 09/16/2014 07:38pm • DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Miami Dolphins starting center Mike Pouncey practiced Tuesday for the first time since undergoing hip surgery back in July.Pouncey, who was selected to his first Pro Bowl last season, confirmed that he participated in every drill. But he is leaving it up to the team doctors to de Montana man charged with assaulting 4 women 09/16/2014 06:20pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana man assaulted four women in five instances over the past six months, causing injuries that required medical care and left one woman hospitalized for six days with a brain injury and a collapsed lung, prosecutors said.Todd Michael Johnson of Billings faces eight felo QB Legaux returns from gruesome knee injury 09/16/2014 06:00pm • JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- Munchie Legaux's grandmother and aunt decided to fly in for Cincinnati's home opener. Even if the fifth-year senior quarterback got on the field for only one play, they weren't about it miss it.Not with all that he's been through: The doctors saying that h US to assign 3,000 from US military to fight Ebola 09/16/2014 04:17pm • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Under pressure to boost the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, President Barack Obama is ordering 3,000 military personnel to West Africa amid worries that the financial and human cost of the outbreak is rapidly growing.The military response is part of a Obama meets with doctor who was treated for Ebola 09/16/2014 03:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has met at the White House today with Dr. Kent Brantly, an American physician who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia. He recovered after treatment with an experimental drug.The meeting took place before Obama left for Atlanta to visit the federal Cent Warrant issued in shooting of pregnant woman, baby 09/16/2014 01:30pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Authorities in Philadelphia are seeking a 26-year-old man in the shooting death of a pregnant woman and her baby.Police issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for city resident Devon Guisherd (GOOSH'-erd).Police say he's responsible for the stray bullet that killed 25-year-old Megan D Ex-prosecutor, wife sentenced in abuse of adoptees 09/16/2014 12:50pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) -- An ex-prosecutor and his wife have been sentenced for endangering the welfare of two adopted Ethiopian children after county welfare officials found the boy had been underfed and the girl physically abused.Douglas Barbour, 35, who resigned from the state attorney general's office Ebola patient in Nebraska bored in isolation room 09/16/2014 11:52am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska doctors treating an American aid worker battling Ebola say that as he improves, he's getting bored in his isolation room.Debbie Sacra says the Nebraska Medical Center brought in a chess board, books and a Nerf basketball hoop to help entertain her husband, Dr. Rick Sacra
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