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Americana BBC: The handwritten letter has become a “sentimental inconvenience” around the world, especially in America, so Americana themes its episode around the postal service. Bill Marling, professor of American literature, modernism, popular culture and globalization, discusses James N. Cain’s ...

College rankings that aren’t ridiculous: Washington Monthly The Huffington Post: Case Western Reserve University ranked No. 7 in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings, the top 13 of which are listed here....

'Bridesmaids,' 'The Help' draw women audiences – and big box-office numbers The Christian Science Monitor: Female-driven films have been huge hits at the box office this summer, such as The Help and Bridesmaids. The success of Bridesmaids, said SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca, was partly due to the fact th...

Doctor shortage threatens U.S. and Ohio: The Changing Face of Medicine The Plain Dealer: A doctor shortage across the U.S. and in Northeast Ohio is occurring. To combat this, medical schools have agreed to grow enrollment by 30 percent by 2015—a difficult task for the schools, as classrooms and lab...

Biomarker spinoff from Case Western Reserve gets $300K federal grant MedCity News: NeoProteomics, a spinoff from Case Western Reserve University that was co-founded by the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics’ director Mark Chance, received a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Healt...

Experts: Child homicides emotional, but not a trend in Boulder County Longmont Times-Shield: In Boulder County, Colo., four children have been killed by their parents since 2009. Though shocking, there is no community profile to explain the problem, said Sara West, assistant professor of psychiatry...

New Jersey high court ruling on eyewitness identification could spur reforms nationwide The Plain Dealer: New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent ruling allows criminal defendants to more easily contest eyewitness identification, and this ruling could spur other states to adopt similar reform because New...

What if Republicans closed the E.P.A.? The New York Times: The 2012 field of Republican presidential candidates oppose the Environmental Protection Agency, which a Republican president, Richard Nixon, began in 1970. School of Law professor Jonathan Adler wrote an essay, “Fixing, Not Ending, Environ...

U.S. Supreme Court shifts basic personal jurisdiction rules Litigation News: Cassandra Burke Robertson, associate professor of law, and Andrew Pollis, assistant professor of law, discuss recent Supreme Court cases and how previous decisions affected the latest rulings....

Earthquake centered in Virginia felt by many in Northeast Ohio The Plain Dealer: The 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia was felt by many in Cleveland, but it was not harmful here. David Zeng, chair of civil engineering, said that for an earthquake to cause damage in Cleveland, its epicen...