By Jerry Gunn Staff The university presented its Distinguished Service to Brenau award to Jim Walters GAINESVILLE - Brenau University conferred its top non-academic awards Thursday night on Gainesville businessman James A. “Jim” Walters and longtime city employee and aviation entrepreneur Eloise Gilmer.

The university also presented an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to Helen...

NEW YORK - Sitting in his Greenwich Village apartment, on the verge of his 100th birthday, composer Elliott Carter is looking back fourscore years and a couple of hundred miles northeast: The composer and longtime New Yorker is fielding questions about his six years as a Harvard student in the 1920s and '30s. He jokingly protests: "My head's too full!"

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Filmmaker and playwright Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, originally from Barrow, is one of 50 the recipients of a $50,000 fellowship grant for artistic excellence from the United States Artists advocacy organization.

MacLean was honored with the award in a celebration at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on Nov. 10.

MacLean’s film, “Sikumi,” which means “On t...

TORONTO - Canadians should be "very skeptical" of foreign clinics that use websites to promote stem cell therapies for a wide range of medical conditions, warn researchers, saying there is a dearth of scientific evidence to back up their claims.

A study by the University of Alberta analyzed the services advertised online by 19 clinics in such countries as China, Mexico and Russia, which p...

Meredith Corp. has signed a licensing agreement with John Wiley giving Wiley exclusive rights to publish and distribute books based on various Meredith brands, including Better Homes and Gardens. The agreement, effective March 1, also makes Wiley the distributor for all existing Meredith titles to all channels. Meredith has a backlist of about tk titles. The deal effectively removes Meredith fr...

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Mon. December 01, 2008; Posted: 02:45 AM Click here for today’s top stocks. New Delhi, Nov 30, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- G PowerRating -- Global consumer products manufacturer Gillette is seeking a patent in India for its invention of stylish and efficient shaving razors, which are fitted with multiple blades.

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Have you ever forced yourself do something that you really didn't want to? Not like the after dinner washing-up, but like running a marathon with a migraine. Well, I have, and it was at midnight on August 14.

Climbing the world's highest mountain to gaze down at the map of Africa was a dream of mine. But, with only 500 metres to reach the summit � which was to take two hours in bitterly...

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