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Almost 10 Million Chinese Students Take College Entrance Exams

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China Daily reports that cities across China have banned traffic and construction noise this week to create a conducive testing environment for more than 9.57 million high school students sitting for their college entrance exams, starting Monday. The high schoolers will compete for only 6.57 million slots at China’s universities and colleges. If an emergency […]

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Started Her Own Biz

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According to Seventeen.com, when Jessica Cervantes was 18 years old, she realized that as delicious as cupcakes were on their own, they would be even better on cookie sticks! So she founded PopsyCakes.com to sell exactly that. (The frosting and chocolate chips keep the cupcakes from falling apart!) Since its launch in 2006, these popsy

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Summer Job Guide

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There are plenty of jobs you can take over the summer, but some of them cater to a student’s schedule better than others. To help, Money College created a list of ideas for summer jobs. These are suggestions to get you started in your search. 1. Landscaping. Get your hands dirty this summer, along with

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USPTO Seeks Students For Collegiate Inventors Competition

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The Invent Now Collegiate Inventors Competition is inviting graduate and undergraduate students to enter its 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition. The deadline for entering this year’s Competition is June 25. Entries are judged on originality, process or technology, and their usefulness to society. For more information, go here. Photo by Invent Now, Inc..

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Students Build Centrifuge For $30

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Futurity reports that a group of college students has turned a salad spinner into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries could use to manually separate blood without electricity. They built it for about $30–including the spinner–using plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun. The centrifuge was designed as a

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Cool Invention: The sOccket

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It’s soccer’s newest utility player: A ball called the sOccket generates and stores energy as players kick it, then provides energy at home. reports Readers Digest. Fifteen minutes on the field captures enough energy to power a small light for three hours and may help people in developing nations replace kerosene, a leading cause of

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