Sustaining local seafood

The New England Aquarium has been helping Gorton's put added weight behind its familiar "Trust the Gorton's Fishermen" advertising jingle. This is the fifth year of a sustainable seafood partnership between the aquarium and the 164-year-old Gloucester...

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Co. calculates need for iPad textbooks

It took a single semester of teaching freshmen physics at Harvard three years ago to convince Zachary Wissner-Gross that lectures — and the leading online learning programs that emulate them — are often the least effective way to teach. "They all have...

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AP IMPACT: Families hoard cash 5 yrs after crisis

NEW YORK — Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in major countries around the world are still hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to...

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Gov't work loses cachet for some

WASHINGTON — There was a time when being a federal employee meant a steady paycheck, great benefits and pride in serving the country. But today, many federal workers are frustrated, anxious and tired of being pawns in the political struggle over government...

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Lew warns of dangers if borrowing limit not raised

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says it will be "dangerous" and "reckless" for Congress to pass an October deadline without raising the government's borrowing limit. Lew said Sunday that on Oct. 17 the government will lose the capacity to...

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Morocco's unemployed march to demand jobs

RABAT, Morocco — Some 2,000 jobless Moroccans marched through the capital Sunday, demanding the government sort out the nation's unemployment by giving them jobs in public sector. Like the rest of North Africa, youth unemployment, especially among university...

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Local fight rages in Maine over tar sands oil

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — A proposed ordinance designed to block tar sands oil from being transported to South Portland has set off a fiery debate over what impact it will have on the community and the city's bustling waterfront. Opponents of the thick,...

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Sloppy Silicon Valley techies find their style

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Silicon Valley has had a men's fashion problem dating back to its founders. From their inception, tech companies went out of their way to be different. There would be no more top-down management, cubicles or business suits. Thus...

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5 achievements that haven't won a Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM — The announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners will start Monday with the medicine award and continue with physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The secretive award committees never give away any hints in advance of who...

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Some anti-drilling activists change tactics, tone

PITTSBURGH — For years, activists have warned that fracking can have disastrous consequences — ruined water and air, sickened people and animals, a ceaseless parade of truck traffic. Now some critics are doing what was once unthinkable: working with...

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