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Program gives youths a jump on their careers

Fourteen-year-old Vanette West has dreamed of becoming a teacher since second grade, when she had "the best teacher in the world." This year, Vanette will turn teacher, giving "mini-lessons" to kindergartners and first-graders as a member of the state's first Teacher Academy program for high school students.
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$36.7 million upgrade unveiled at Limerick technical school

LIMERICK — Students of the Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center returned to a newly renovated building with state-of-the-art equipment designed to prepare them for careers.
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5th Annual StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress (ICC)

September 20-22 2010, the world's most respected chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and restaurateurs are gathering in New York to discuss the latest trends in the food and beverage industries. The historic Park Avenue Armory will once again host over 70 presenters and 1,500 of their culinary peers
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Review: Per Petterson plumbs The River of Time

Norse code Why would Per Petterson — the bestselling Scandinavian writer whose books don't feature an invincible crimefighting heroine — curse the river of time when he is so adept at navigating it? TIME BENDER: Petterson’s chronology can become unwieldy, but his masterful prose keeps the story afloat. Why would Per Petterson — the bestselling Scandinavian writer whose books don't feature an ...
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26,000 Illinoisans put to work

Kevin Plattner is earning $10 an hour restoring and designing stained glass at Solstice Art Source Inc., an architectural stained glass company housed in a warehouse building at 2010 W. Fulton.His job, along with 26,000 others throughout Illinois, were created through the Put Illinois to Work program.
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Enrollment in career, technical classes up

The 20 students in the Agriculture and Natural Resource Technology class offered at Forrest County Agricultural High School pull on dusty boots and climb into two trucks to head out from the classroom to the cow pasture.
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Review: Pressure Cooker

Culinary school doc cuts like a knife A cross between Spellbound and Iron Chef , Mark Becker & Jennifer Grausman's charming documentary follows a year in firebrand educator Wilma Stephenson's "Careers through Culinary Arts" program at Philadelphia's Frankford High School.
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MMA Sweet Tweets V.5: Hot Babes, Ass-Kicking Fighters, and More

When UFC Octagon girl Arianny Celeste graces the cover of Playboy in November 2010, she will do so as the fictional wife of the most charismatic MMA columnist in the history of the sport’s coverage. And since Ariel Helwani and Ben Fowlkes weren’t available, that honor is bestowed upon yours truly. Kenda Perez and I had some good times as a fictional married couple, but when she started ...
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Tech center concurrent credit courses jump

JONESBORO — The number of courses offered for concurrent college credit to students at the NEA Career and Technical Center jumped this year, director Lisa Trotter said.
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11 college students to get Rotary scholarships

Lawrence Barrett, Eastern Maine Community College's new president, has accepted a check on behalf of 11 EMCC students who are each recipients of a $1,000 scholarship from the ...
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