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Nashville developers abandon plans for a medical mart; Cleveland site to open in July 2013 The Plain Dealer: Developers abandoned plans for a Medical Trade Center in Nashville, Tenn., leaving Cleveland’s medical mart as the final project in the works. While it’s good for Cleveland, it doesn’t guara...

A century of the Beverly Hills Hotel American Public Media: This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel. The hotel helped create the luxury of Beverly Hills, where home sales had been slow prior to the hotel’s opening. Now, the glamour of the city bolsters the hotel’s...

100 years ago, Maillard taught us why our food tastes better cooked NPR: In 1912, Louis-Camille Maillard discovered the chemical reaction that occurs when food is cooked—and that explains why cooked food tastes better. Before, people just made educated guesses about how cooking worked. His initial ...

Which MBA? The Economist: Weatherhead School of Management’s full-time MBA program made The Economist’s 2012 list of the 100 best MBAs, appearing at No. 100 in the world and No. 47 among degrees offered by business schools located in the U.S. The rankings are determined in part by survey responses ...

University research budgets hang in the balance (subscription required) Crain’s Cleveland Business: If the federal government fails to create a budget deal by the end of the year, research budgets at universities will be cut dramatically. If Congress can come up with its own way to reduce the defic...

Looming tax hikes ideastream: Tax cuts enacted under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are set to expire next year, including a temporary 2 percent payroll tax holiday. Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss whether Congre...

When job-creation engines stop at just one The New York Times: For years, start-ups have been doing mores with fewer employees, which has implications for the work force. “There’s this idea that we can somehow rely on entrepreneurship to get us out of the job crisis,” said Scott Shane, the A. Malac...

Ohio: Staring into the face of change American Public Media: In a look at Ohio’s economic history and future, Marketplace went to John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Associate Professor in Applied History. "We have to get used to a smaller city, we have to get used to a city with empty spaces, we ha...

Big Bird will haunt Mitt Romney The Washington Post: When Gov. Mitt Romney mentioned cutting subsidies to PBS, it opened up an opportunity for President Barack Obama’s campaign, according to one Washington Post blogger: moms. The blog cites an article by Amy Przeworski, assistant professor of psych...

Case Western Reserve University's library receives $5 million gift The Plain Dealer: Kelvin Smith Library received a $5 million gift from a donor who wished to remain anonymous, marking the single largest gift in the library’s history. The funds will be used to buy books and journals, update facili...