New chief of rail named at Virginia DRPT
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Peter Burrus has joined the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) in the newly-created position of Chief of Rail Transportation.
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Skin deep: Researchers solve mystery of parchment origins
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“Parchment” – it sounds ancient and quaint. One variety of it – used in the first truly portable Bibles – has the disturbing name “uterine vellum,” prompting scholars over the centuries to surmise its origins.
Virginia Tech Dining Services treats students with a gingerbread house replica of Burruss Hall
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West End Market is decked out in holiday style with a gingerbread house replica of Burruss Hall.
Senate education bill includes provisions of Kaine’s career, technical education, safe relationships measures
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Following today’s announcement of the final conference report on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to replace No Child Left Behind, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine welcomed the bill’s inclusion of key provisions he authored to help prevent sexual assault and strengthen career and technical education (CTE) in schools across the country.
Randy Forbes: Baseball, language, and American unity
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“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America better learn baseball.” The late cultural historian Jacques Barzun penned these words in a tribute to the great American pastime.
UVA’s Russell Bogue among 2015 class of Rhodes Scholars
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Russell Bogue, a fourth-year honors politics student who also is studying Mandarin Chinese, is the University of Virginia’s 51st Rhodes Scholar.
Governor McAuliffe receives SOL Innovation Committee’s 2015 recommendations
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Governor McAuliffe received the Standards of Learning (SOL) Innovation Committee’s second round of recommendations, which are aimed at improving how the Commonwealth measures and fosters student growth and achievement, and how it evaluates schools.
George Lucas, Star Wars and Hollywood film mythology to be explored at Bridgewater College
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Jonathan Atkins, a 1996 graduate of Bridgewater College, will speak about the influence George Lucas and the Star Wars films have had on Hollywood film mythology at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Cole Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
How low can Lew Rockwell go?
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Hans Hermann Hoppe and Lew Rockwell — the gray eminences of the paleo-libertarian world — cry out “But what about the rooaaads?”
Tyson Foods recalls chicken wings due to possible adulteration
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Tyson Foods Inc., a Pine Bluff, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 52,486 pounds of chicken wing product that may be adulterated because of having an “off odor” scent, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
