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		<title>“Defending Scholarships but not all Scholars”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Address by Eddie Teo, Chairman, Public Service Commission, at the Singapore Seminar 2009 in London
on 31 Oct 09
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I am very glad to see so many of you here today. When I first discussed this Seminar with the scholar organizers, the question was raised if the topics we chose would attract a large turnout. I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=303&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Be Happy in Academe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By GREGORY PENCE
Recently a young male professor in philosophy astonished me when he turned down a tenure-track job offer at a small, rural public university and then decided to leave academe. If he couldn&#8217;t get a great job at a research university, he told me, or at least a job in a great city, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=299&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Give up citizenship? Brothers must do NS first</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THREE brothers, born to a Norwegian father and Singaporean mother, want to give up their Singapore citizenship.
But the Ministry of Defence has said no. Not until they do their national service.
The Bugge brothers &#8211; Thorbjoern, 33; Ingvar, 31; and Frode, 30 &#8211; left Singapore when each turned 18 and have tried and failed several times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=289&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ivy Leaguers&#8217; Big Edge: Starting Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN (Wall Street Journal)
Where people go to college can make a big difference in starting pay, and that difference is largely sustained into midcareer, according to a large study of global compensation.
In the yearlong effort, PayScale Inc., an online provider of global compensation data, surveyed 1.2 million bachelor&#8217;s degree graduates with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=286&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power Of The Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from here.
This guest editorial is by Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University, who recently addressed the graduating members of Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford. The following editorial is derived from his address.
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The question is a little-understood element of human cognition. Nevertheless, some question is at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=284&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Perpetual Student Pursues Education to the Nth Degree</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SARA LIPKA
Benjamin B. Bolger&#8217;s story seems like a hoax. At age 32, he says, he has just earned his 11th advanced degree: a doctorate that Harvard University awarded him on Thursday.
He distributed a news release for the occasion, proclaiming himself the most credentialed person &#8220;in modern history.&#8221; The release lists 10 master&#8217;s degrees, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=283&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Oyster genitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Harvard, Yale Boost Engineering in Race With China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Kladko
May 30 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Harvard and Yale are boosting their engineering programs because of increased demand and competition from China, where more engineering degrees are awarded each year than in the U.S.
Both academic institutions, following the lead of Princeton University and Columbia University, added to the status, staffing and visibility of the engineering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=280&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bioscientists photoshop their cultures to fake results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers often use Photoshop to clean up the images they produce in the laboratory. If the experiment didn&#8217;t go quite right, a bit of tampering can make a gel look like things did work. Editors at Science, Nature, and other journals are turning into detectives, using new tools to hunt for fraudulent images.
And the level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&blog=331717&post=279&subd=takchek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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