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InternetNews June 7, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Harvard's Famous Dropout Gets The Last Laugh Thirty years late, Bill Gates receives degree, urges graduates to use new technologies to focus on reducing the world's "inequities."
InternetNews June 6, 2007 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Examine Tech Solutions to Illegal File Sharing Congress today turned its attention - again -- to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses.
AFP eWire June 1, 2007	Applications Now Being Accepted for Ernest W. Wood Fellowship Doctoral students in the United States or Canada pursuing a dissertation related to fund raising and research, including the areas of major gifts and capital campaigns, are invited to apply for the Ernest W. Wood Fellowship.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Hospodor & Hospodor	Robo-girls Take On the World More than 10,000 teenagers from 344 teams traveled from 23 countries to the Georgia Dome for the 2007 FIRST Robotics World Championship. Seven all-girl teams made the run through the gauntlet of regional championships to be part of the Atlanta group.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Margaret Henty	Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities This article identifies the issues relating to repository management that are seen as important by a group of senior academic administrators. These reflect to some degree the way in which repositories have developed in Australia.
Geotimes May 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Engineering a Lunar Challenge You don't have to take a space flight to see a moonbuggy in action -- just head to Alabama. In mid-April, high school and college students gathered at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to race their own lunar rovers in the Great Moonbuggy Race.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Philip E. Ross	A Double Standard for Women Engineers? When male scientists posed half-naked for a calendar in the 1990s they got kudos; now that female engineering students have done the same, they face recriminations.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Michael Arndt	MIT, Caltech--And The Gators? How the University of Florida moved to the major league of technology startups.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Ben Elgin	Study Now--And Pay And Pay And Pay Later Thousands of low-income adults borrow at high interest rates to go back to school to learn new skills. Many end up falling into a debt spiral.
T.H.E. Journal May 2007	Essentials by Desire2Learn Desire2Learn is lowering the ante for campuswide course management system adoption with a new version of its CMS for brick-and-mortar and virtual schools with fewer than 5,000 users.
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