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The Super Bowl brought more than just NFL players to town. Basketball great and entrepreneur Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson came and spoke to high school and college students Friday at an ''After the Party, What is the Plan?'' symposium at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens. ''This is really great that they put this forum together for all the young people,'' Johnson said. ``Hopefully, they come away with a little bit of knowledge.'' Johnson was the keynote speaker at the symposium, which ... featured a panel discussion with Chris Draft of the Carolina Panthers, a graduate of Stanford University and executive director of the Chris Draft Family Foundation; and Jernell Jenkins, an FMU graduate and CEO of Spase Designz, a marketing and promotions company. They discussed the importance of having a good education and finding mentors.
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MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PPGx, Inc., a leading global provider of pharmacogenomic products and services, has launched a yearlong, renewable partnership with the Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University (N.C. State).
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Robert Morgan's Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution (Algonquin Books, 309 pages, $24.95) is ... set in the South, in the Carolina upcountry. It has an unusual protagonist, a young girl, Josie, who dresses up as a man and lives with a Methodist minister who falls in love with her and marries her when her true identity is discovered. When her husband is captured, she disguises herself as a man again and joins the North Carolina militia.
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*The Public Safety Academy of Northeast Indiana is officially opening at a ceremony and open house starting at 2 p.m. Wednesday. If you haven’t seen it, the academy is at 7602 Patriot Crossing in Fort Wayne, behind Southtown Centre on U.S. 27.
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Mercury contamination in farmed fish setup on former garimpo-mining areas in the Northern Mato Grosso State, Amazonian region, Brazil. From 1980 to 1995, garimpo gold-mining activities have released around 2,500 tons of mercury into the Brazilian Amazonian environment. Mato Grosso State, an important gold-mining and trading area during the Amazonian gold rush, is now at a critical point in its economic future. Today, gold mining is only of minor importance to the Mato Grosso State economy, and local communities are looking for economic alternatives for the future. One alternative is cooperative fish farming; therefore, some fish-farming projects are using areas contaminated by the former garimpo activities, with the remaining mercury still posing risks, especially through its bioaccumulation in fish. The authors evaluated levels of mercury contamination in two fish-farming areas, Paranaita and Alta Floresta, with and without a history of past gold-mining activity, respectively.
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The competition is steep. On the list of finalists this year: Derek Lam, another one of the hottest fashion designers in the industry. His line -- as well as Proenza Schouler's -- is sold locally at Vermillion in North Hills.
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