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"Called the University of Toledo Guarantee, the program is open to graduates of Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo public schools. The student has to have at least a 3.0 GPA in high school and show some financial need by qualifying for a Pell Grant when filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA."

"The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay and lesbian couples have the right to get married.

"The ruling makes Connecticut the third state, after Massachusetts and California, to decide its constitution mandates treating citizens equally when applying for marriage licenses, regardless of their sexual orientation.

"The decision would only allow gay couples the state benefits of marriage. The Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996, denies gay couples federal recognition of state marriages, which provides for federal benefits with regard to Social Security, taxation, immigration and others."

"Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed announced today that he is giving up his Sunday comic strip Opus to focus on children’s books instead. That announcement signals the end of Opus, the charming penguin who has entertained comics readers for nearly 30 years, starting with Bloom County. Though Breathed has retired the character before, this time, he says, he means it. ‘I’ll be leaving Opus in a way that it should be very clear that this time there’s no going back home,’ says Breathed."

"Toledo City Council stamped its approval last night on the city’s portion of a $30 million incentive package to keep HCR ManorCare Inc. and its nearly 700 jobs from moving out of downtown Toledo."

I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure my employer didn’t have any plans to skip town. Just sayin’. But thanks for the incentive package!

‘A National Research Council report, years in the making and scheduled to be released Tuesday, concludes that automated identification of terrorists through data mining or any other mechanism "is neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts." Inevitable false positives will result in "ordinary, law-abiding citizens and businesses" being incorrectly flagged as suspects.’

On one hand, having users solve math problems before sending e-mails is a brilliant way to cut down on drunk e-mailing (and I do know some people who could use this feature). On the other hand, arithmetically-challenged people like myself would never manage to send any e-mails ever.