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Новости за 07.10.2016

New York Observer 

College Ranking: New List, Same Old Results

The Wall Street Journal recently published an "invaluable guide" to the top colleges in the US, but its contents tell the same old story.

New York Observer 

Afternoon Bulletin: The Wrath of Hurricane Matthew, Dead Grandma Wrapped in Plastic

A 30-year-old man, Christopher Fuhrer, was charged on Thursday after police were called to check in on his 85-year-old grandmother, who they found dead in her Ridgewood home. Fuhrer had been living with the corpse for five months, wrapping the body in 16 layers of plastic bags and filling the room with air fresheners and a fan to conceal the smell.

New York Observer 

Murphy’s Essex County: Gordian Knot or Maraschino Cherry?

NEWARK - When it comes to Essex County's influence on the 2017 gubernatorial contest, it depends on whom you ask. If you talk to an Essex Democratic Party insider, Essex's endorsement of former Goldman Sachs executive Phil Murphy was the master woodman's stroke that split and unraveled the Gordian Knot. To party rivals beyond Essex's borders, it represented little more that a Maraschino Cherry: picturesque but ultimately irrelevant atop the foaming cone of North Jersey.

New York Observer 

Play Video Games, Advance Science

We recently set up a Foldit competition between gamers, undergraduate students and professional scientists. The winner might surprise you – and offer important possibilities for scientific research.