Top Obama Economic Adviser to Leave

The White House says Austan Goolsbee, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, will resign his post as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers this summer to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Goolsbee has been the face of the White House on economic news, and is a regular every first Friday of the month explaining the administration’s take on the latest jobless numbers

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Yale Lab Tech Gets 44 Years for Murder

A former animal research technician was sentenced Friday to 44 years in prison for killing a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding in 2009 after anguished relatives described how plans to celebrate her marriage suddenly turned to unimaginable grief as they returned home with her in a coffin.

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Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

Professor Michael Wesch should be flattered. A cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, over the past few years he’s received a hundred-plus requests from people around the world eager to enroll in the school’s graduate program for “digital ethnography,” a subject that he’s known for.

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Mother bids emotional farewell at Yale student’s funeral

Mourners gathered Saturday in a California church to remember slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, whose body was found on the day she was to be married. “You were born in my loving embrace,” said Le’s mother, Vivian Van Le, reading a poem she’d written in Vietnamese to those gathered for the funeral at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, California.

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