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Cheap winter and spring flights to cities such as Las Vegas, Orlando, San Francisco, and Cancun are on sale with Virgin America. Flights start at $ 59, but competition gets heavy with many rivals offering similarly low rates. SmarterTravel.com: Travel Deals
If you’ve ever played golf you know it is one unpredictable sport. Some days it’s fairways and greens, and others it’s rough and bunkers. Golf News
Mashable – The Education Tech Series is supported by Dell The Power To Do More, where you’ll find perspectives, trends and stories that inspire Dell to create technology solutions that work harder for its customers so they can do and achieve more. Yahoo! News: Education News
Drafts of cacao and strawberry sequences unveiled. NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds
Weizmann scientists and a global team have produced the full genome of the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca). The wild strawberry has important nutritive properties, as well as qualities that make it an ideal model plant; e.g., it could provide insight into related agricultural crops from the rose family, including apple and almond trees. Newswise: SciNews
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – New genes that evolved a mere one million years ago- a blink in evolutionary history- can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, according to this study. Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com
Airline announces further details of configuration of A380-800 Superjumbo to be delivered May 2011 Continues… Business Traveller RSS
Ross MacLean of ISS gives you a rundown of players to keep your eye on as the tournament progresses, complete with specific skills to watch. The Hockey News
Shocking video of a gunman opening fire during a school board meeting in Florida has Pennsylvania school officials thinking about safety at their own meetings. Education Week American Education News Site of Record