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Google is pleased to partner with the Hispanic College Fund to offer scholarships for computer science students! Google HCF scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates’ academic background, leadership and passion for computer science. Recipients will each receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year. Selected students will also be invited to attend the all-expenses-paid Annual Google Scholars’ Retreat at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California in the Spring of 2010. Eligibility Requirements: Must be of Hispanic background Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident residing in the United States or Puerto Rico Studying at an accredited university in the U.S. or Puerto Rico for the upcoming academic year Enrolled (or plan to be) full-time for the upcoming academic year Have a minimum GPA of a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale Demonstrate financial need junior or senior undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in computer science or computer engineering for the 2010-2011 academic year Application Deadline: February 16, 2010 For complete details, please visit www.google.com/jobs/scholarships Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs Specialist

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From the comfort of your own dorm room, Street View on Google Maps lets you scope out a restaurant before heading out there for a date (oh look, there’s a flower shop next door ) or preview your spring break hotel to be sure it meets your strict requirements (oh look, the beach is right across the street ). But wouldn’t it be nice if you could see more places in Street View? Places like hiking or biking trails, sports stadiums, and maybe even your university campus! Freshmen could easily study what all the campus buildings look like, and your family could get a better sense of your new home. Think back to when you were applying to schools – wouldn’t it have been handy to be able to virtually tour college campuses? Or better yet, picture how nice a Street View walk down memory lane will be after you graduate and start to feels pangs of nostalgia for college life. Good news: you can now nominate your campus to be photographed for Street View on Google Maps. We’ve created the Street View trike, a mechanical masterpiece made of 3 bicycle wheels and a mounted Street View camera, to take pictures of places like university campuses that cannot be reached by car. Visit www.google.com/trike to nominate your school for a visit from the Street View trike. To get an idea of what Street View pictures taken by the trike look like, you can check out San Diego State University , the first university included in Google Maps: View Larger Map So far we’ve taken the trike to a few other campuses, including the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State , but all of you have a chance to nominate your school to be included next. Of course, we’ll make sure to work directly with the administration at your school to get the necessary permissions and approvals before coming on campus – and, as with all Street View imagery, we’ll blur identifiable faces. We’re also accepting nominations in 5 other categories for where to send the Street View trike next: Parks & Trails Pedestrian Malls (e.g., outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks) Theme Parks & Zoos Landmarks Sports Venues (e.g., golf courses, racing tracks, stadium grounds) Head to www.google.com/trike by October 28 to submit your nomination. After we comb through the submissions and pick out the finalists, you will have the opportunity to vote on a winner from each category for the Street View trike to visit. May the best campus win!

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But in memory of the 1989 student movement, I felt that the best thing to do is to trace back to the time as it occurred. I am sure that we will then have a discussion as to how we look at the events in Spring 1989 today. …… Basically the introduction of price discovery revealed supply and demand imbalances (as it must) with over-high demand for daily consumer goods; and dual-track pricing that was meant to dampen a sudden shock created a black market, …

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It is definitely something to look into. High school seniors: Take a year off and go out and do something else. I think there are many advantages and opportunities to this.  You could also take advantage of the time to get more aid money — more fixed-rate student loans and bigger grants to the poorest students. Just a few hundred dollars a year in grants and a few thousand dollars more in loans may not seem to be a lot, but it is not entirely about the money. You could gain a great amount of experience – as long as you are not messing around. If you are a students who have already applied for college, and you are now waiting to hear who accepted you can ask to defer the acceptance for a year, colleges usually don’t mind. Here are some additional things to concider doing with this time Consider working for a year to help your parents with the tuition Consider working for projects such as AmeriCorps and Habitat for Humanity Peace Corps (Two years, and only if your already interested) Taking a break. No. No. No. – Not a choice… “I haven’t had many students in my career do that, simply because it’s not part of the norm,” said Robert E. Bardwell, director of guidance and a counselor at Monson High School in Monson, Mass. “Many of them, especially the higher achieving students, are eager to get into college so that they can get done sooner.” I suppose they want to pay the debt sooner, (ie, get the job) Please note, I am not suggesting you should take a year off just for the sake of it. You must plan in advance, you must use this time wisely or you might greatly regret doing this. NYT Author Jonathan Glater says: Students who get into college this spring, it is hard to see a downside to taking a year off. Gaining valuable life experience is not exactly dilly-dallying. And if ever there was a time that youthful enthusiasm, energy and creativity might be needed out in the real world, this could be it. Things I have mentioned above can give you an introduction to the real world, an experience, and a good reason to delay college. But I can’t emphasis enough that you should only delay college if you have a good reason; That is to use your time productively and wisely.  And a last note, some have tried this and had no motivation or were not thinking or were just too lazy to do anything, which made them worse off – to the extent that some of them did not go back to college! Good luck, make your decision wisely!

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Many of China’s families whose gotten ill from the tainted milk scandal have tried to follow lawsuits against those responsible. However, these people have recently come under fire from their local government, and have been pressurized to drop the lawsuits, according to Yahoo! . Although some intimidated families have dropped the lawsuits, others seek justice, and have continued on with pressing on to take it to court. At least one family have dropped out, and according to them, the pressuring from the local officials were “frightening”. Melanine were the official cause of the tainted milk, which were blamed for killing at least six babies and sickening nearly 300,000 in China. Because of this scandal, 500,000 Chinese food processing companies have changed their food regulations and methods.  

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China’s Milk Victims Getting Intimidated