Florida State Tops Fun as Best College List Bites
In Inside Edge’s playful ranking, Florida State leads the top 20 fun colleges while Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago miss the top 300. The list grades 300 coed universities on nightlife, sports, and social ease, with cautious notes on academics. Florida State’s Glen Torbert cites strong parties and solid grades. Chicago sits at 300, with Yale and Tufts among the bottom ten. The top 20 feature UCSB, Vermont, Rice, Georgetown, Syracuse, Alabama, Penn State, UConn, and Tulane.
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Murray Ridge 1.68 mill renewal levy urged in Lorain County
The appeal asks Lorain County voters to renew the 1.6875 mill levy funding Murray Ridge programs for over 1,200 people including youths and adults with developmental disabilities. The program is the eighth largest in Ohio and cost efficient, supporting with Issue 2 on the November ballot.
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Abed Abdel Rahman to get two room jail suite at NYC center
The government funds about 12000 for a two room cell with a shower and a conference area for Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman at the Metropolitan Correctional Center as he seeks transfer closer to his lawyers while awaiting trial. Abdel-Rahman, 55, faces a terrorist conspiracy case tied to the World Trade Center bombing that killed six and injured over a thousand. A separate Miami report notes Haitian broadcaster Dona St Pierre was fatally shot during a benefit for a fellow journalist’s family.
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Denny defendant may face retrial in beating case
Los Angeles prosecutors must decide if they will refile charges against Henry Watson after a deadlocked jury failed to convict on the assault with a deadly weapon count in the Larry Tarvin beating. Watson and Damian Williams were acquitted of attempted premeditated murder in the Reginald Denny case.
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Columbia crew resumes midcourse medical tests on rodents
Space Center Houston AP report says seven astronauts on the Columbia mission shifted focus back to human physiology and rodent studies at the halfway point of the 14 day flight. They collected blood and urine, ingested isotopes, and performed heart and motion sickness tests while blooded rodents underwent parallel tests. The mission aims to study weightlessness effects ahead of a planned landing at Edwards AFB on November 1.
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