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        <description>A collection of news and information related to Rice University published by Tribune Company sources.</description>
        
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			<title><![CDATA[USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-0510-usc-ucla-brain-research-20130510,0,7623966.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-10 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A third George Bush steps up to the political plate in Texas]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-na-texas-third-george-bush-20130526,0,3475798.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-25 21:53:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WACO, Texas &mdash; On a recent afternoon, as McLennan County Republicans polished off their barbecue, the head of the local GOP worked his way through the group's luncheon agenda. A plaque was presented. A local judge spotlighted. The fertilizer plant...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Online education groups add colleges from U.S. and overseas]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-20 21:02:35</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WACO, Texas &mdash; On a recent afternoon, as McLennan County Republicans polished off their barbecue, the head of the local GOP worked his way through the group's luncheon agenda. A plaque was presented. A local judge spotlighted. The fertilizer plant...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Timbuktu: Experts fear for ancient papers in historic city]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-fg-wn-timbuktu-destruction-manuscripts-20130128,0,7444794.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-01-28 14:39:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As the Malian military tried to retake the storied city of Timbuktu from Islamic extremists, scholars feared for the fate of ancient artifacts and mosques that testify to its historic grandeur.

Timbuktu has been threatened for months: The city was...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Aggie jumps into 3-D printing start-up business]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-mct-aggie-jumps-into-3-d-printing-start-up-business-20130520,0,4471120.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-20 07:24:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It took less than an hour Sunday for Mike Mehlman to print -- yes, print -- a keychain while sitting in his College Station living room. 

Mehlman started the process by spreading a special glue over a piece of glass used as the platform on which to print...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[From Sun Magazine: 'Genius' pair rewrite rules of organ transplants, among other interests]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-14 04:52:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies.

The glittery ideas they filch from fields as diverse as swing dancing, systems analysis, water skiing and medicine seemingly have little in common. But Segev and Gentry weave them together...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breast Cancer Moonshot]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/da-ot-breast-cancer-moonshot-20121003,0,32303.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-10-03 14:46:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The nation's largest cancer center is launching a massive "moonshot" effort against eight specific forms of the disease, similar to the all-out push for space exploration 50 years ago.

 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston expects...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rice graduate tries making U.S. Olympic long jump team]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/kiah-rice-graduate-tries-making-us-olympic-long-jump-team-20120713,0,7685774.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-07-13 15:01:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Funmi Jimoh is no stranger to international track & field competition.

"My PR [personal record] in the long jump is 6.96m/22-11 and I did that in Qatar at Doha in 2009," said Jimoh, who attended Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas.

"She...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Head of the Class: Local students earn honors and accolades]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-06-27 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The following students have earned accolades, degrees and honors at colleges and universities:

Alex Vanko, of Towson, graduated magnum cum laude from the College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and a minor in philosophy....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[United Continental's CEO has a daunting challenge before him]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/chi-united-continentals-ceo-has-a-daunting-challenge-before-him-20111031,0,3864815.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-10-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Jeff Smisek was a partner at a law firm in Houston in the mid-1990s when, during a business lunch, he was offered the opportunity to meet with Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines.

He didn't know Bethune, but his sales instincts kicked in.

He...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Student news - June 11]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-06-11 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[FREDERICK, Md. &mdash; Amanda Hutzell, who has completed her junior year at Hood College, was recently inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma national honor society.

Chi Alpha Sigma honors junior and senior student-athletes who have achieved excellence in...]]></description>
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