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		<copyright>Copyright 2009, Northeastern University</copyright>
		<pubDate>Mon, 1 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[What Students Want in Housing]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.bu.edu/today/2010/03/17/what-students-want-housing]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[BU students and staffs are discussing what the next step of student housing on campus is. Barry Bluestone, dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, says universities could work with private developers to build what he calls a “multi-university graduate student village” to house some of the 95,000 graduate students in Boston.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Unemployed teens lose valuable 'invisible curriculum']]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20100319/OPINION03/3190308/1014/OPINION/Unemployed-teens-lose-valuable-invisible-curriculum]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The unemployed teens are deprived of the valuable "invisible curriculum" that comes from reporting to a supervisor, showing up on time and working with others as part of a team. Research from Northeastern University found that teens without job opportunities -- especially economically disadvantaged teens -- are also more likely to drop out of high school or get tangled up in the criminal justice system.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[State job data point to further recovery]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/03/19/state_job_data_point_to_further_recovery/]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The state’s labor market showed signs of stabilizing last month as Massachusetts employers added jobs for the first time in nearly two years and the state unemployment rate held steady, breaking a 22-month streak of increases. “There’s still an awful lot of unemployment out there, but it looks like the labor market is healing,’’ said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Infrared spectroscopy aids cancer diagnosis]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2010/04/infrared_spectroscopy.asp]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[A genetic algorithm developed by UK scientists could aid the use of infrared (IR) spectroscopy in cancer diagnosis. Max Diem, an expert in spectral diagnosis from Northeastern University in Boston, US, says this paper 'is a pioneering application of this newly developed technology.']]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Cheshire Home Invasion Suspect Granted Competency Hearing]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-steven-hayes-cheshire-home-invasion-0317,0,3111424.story?track=rss]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The mental-competency hearing granted Wednesday to Steven Hayes will focus on a narrow issue and not lay the groundwork for an insanity defense. "A competency determination asks two questions: Can he understand the proceedings, and can he communicate sufficiently with his counsel to aid in his defense," said James Alan Fox, professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University and an expert on multiple homicides and death-penalty cases.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[‘Do We Really Remember the Armenians?’]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/town_info/history/x427973497/-Do-We-Really-Remember-the-Armenians]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Tufts Day of Remembrance will feature a talk by former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Kitty Dukakis, “Do We Really Remember the Armenians?” Currently Michael S. Dukakis is professor of political science at Northeastern University and visiting professor in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Teens get squeezed by employment crunch]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/mar/17/teens-get-squeezed-by-employment-crunch/]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[As bad as the employment scene has been for adults the past couple of years, a report from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University notes it has been worse for young adults and teens for longer than that.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Zionism’s invented state]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/books/article31014.ece]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[Author M. Shahid Alam, a non-Arab and professor of economics at Northeastern University in Boston, does a fascinating job of creating a repository of references on Zionism by way of narrative and footnotes.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[No Olympic rings for the three agitos]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.ctvolympics.ca/paralympics/news/newsid=55481.html]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[The three agitos on the Paralympics' logo tell history of relationship between the Olympics and Paralympics. Eli Wolff, a retired Paralympian who helped create Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston, says the logo is just one of many ways the IOC tries to distance itself from the Paralympics even as the two Games move closer together.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Interview: The science behind earthquakes]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[http://www.physorg.com/news187972344.html]]></link>
				<description><![CDATA[A series of major earthquakes have struck countries in the Caribbean, South America and Asia, causing catastrophic damage. Large-scale relief efforts are in place in the hardest-hit nations, including Haiti and Chile. Northeastern earth and environmental sciences professor Jennifer Cole discusses what causes earthquakes and how one natural disaster can lead to another.]]></description>
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