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Tom Wolf campaign worker loses job over plagiarism controversy

2014-04-25 04:57:42| Automakers - Topix.net

Tom Wolf's campaign dismissed the person it said was responsible for passages in a major policy plan that matched parts of reports by a heating and cooling system supplier with York County ties.

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Twitter Tries to Defuse Turkey Controversy

2014-04-15 19:39:37| TechNewsWorld

Twitter has agreed to close some accounts in Turkey, but the two sides are still at loggerheads over allegations of tax evasion and whether or not Twitter must maintain a physical presence in the country. Twitter Vice President of Global Public Policy Colin Crowell led a delegation of sorts to address the country's multifaceted grievances with the social media site.

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Study resolves controversy over nitrogen's ocean 'exit strategies'

2014-04-11 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: A decades-long debate over how nitrogen is removed from the ocean may now be settled by new findings from researchers at Princeton University and their collaborators at the University of Washington. The debate centers on how nitrogen-one of the most important food sources for ocean life and a controller of atmospheric carbon dioxide-becomes converted to a form that can exit the ocean and return to the atmosphere where it is reused in the global nitrogen cycle. Researchers have argued over which...

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Mozilla CEO Eich resigns amid controversy over opposition to gay marriage

2014-04-03 23:04:11| InfoWorld: Top News

Brendan Eich has resigned as CEO of Mozilla and left the board of the foundation that governs the nonprofit company after days of controversy over his donation to backers of California's anti-gay-marriage proposition in 2008.

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