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Sorin Adam Matei

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Terrorist shootout and attack in Paris, France killings result in at least 18 victims. Location, video, photo, map, kmz

View image | gettyimages.com Reuters reports that at least 18 people were killed in shootouts and explosions near a soccer stadium in Paris. This is a developing story. Please return for updated information.  

Are we on the verge of a Venezuelan missile crisis?

Image via Wikipedia Worrying news, via Die Welt, from Venezuela. Copying a page from the book of his mentor, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez closes ranks with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards by allowing an Iranian manned missile base in South America. It is…

University of Illiniois follows University of California down the hole

University of Illinois has only received 7% of its state budget allocation and the interim president announces that its professors will be furloughed (a form of salary cut or partial unemployment). It is a move on a par to UC’s catastrophic budget…

Haves vs. Have-Nots at Public Universities – Room for Debate Blog – NYTimes.com

A roundup on the University of California fee raises by the New York Times. Although the respondents’ own agendas make the answers at times less than enlightening, they are symptomatic for this day and age. The University of California, which has already…