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My high school engineering classroom feels like the downtown loft of a high-tech start-up. In one corner, students pour over a “smart” air-conditioner device they’re designing. Others crowd around a laptop to trade impressions of a new prosthetic arm on a YouTube video. And some pace around on their mobile phones, questioning an engineer at […]

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Former secretary of state Colin Powell defended the nomination of Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon on Sunday, downplaying some of the controversial remarks attributed to the former Nebraska senator. That includes Hagel’s quip that members of Congress were intimidated by “a Jewish lobby” on Capitol Hill. “That term slips out from time to time,” […]

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