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Palms Pose Problems for Planet

June 1, 2014

Palm oil is an unusual suspect in creating a tremendous amount of air pollution, according to a CU-Boulder study.

President Kennedy arrives at the Hotel Texas parking lot rally in Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963

Paul Danish: History’s First Draft

June 1, 2014

I got the call at my pad in the Lazy J Motel, a housing complex on 28th Street across from campus. It was at 12:20 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, 1963.

Aerial of Birkenau extermination camp

Voices of Holocaust Haunt Norlin Library

June 1, 2014

The world’s largest privately owned holocaust archive is donated to CU-Boulder.

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Campus News Briefs – Summer 2014

June 1, 2014

Chautauqua Park

Look: 24 Hours in Boulder

June 1, 2014

Explore Boulder this summer by renting the city’s hip red cruiser B-Cycle bikes. In the morning, hit the Boulder Creek path, one of The Hill’s unique coffee shops and cafés or pedal to Chautauqua for close-up views of the Flatirons.

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Hindsight Is 2020

June 1, 2014

U.S. passport control agents may need to order more rubber stamp pads to accommodate the influx of CU-Boulder students studying abroad by 2020.

Illustration of Dr. Evil as grocery checker

Origins: Lasers

June 1, 2014

Right after Theodore Maiman (EngrPhys’49) successfully developed the laser in 1960, newspapers reported that a Los Angeles scientist had invented a death ray.

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Are We Over-Caffeinated?

June 1, 2014

While traveling the world to understand everything there is to know about caffeine, Murray Carpenter uncovers some shocking surprises.

Washington Post

Shaping the News

June 1, 2014

Barbara Vobejda decides what The Washington Post’s front page and breaking news stories will be every day.

Norlin Library

Infographic: If These Old Walls Could Speak

June 1, 2014

The university’s first library opened in September 1877 in Old Main. It had two books, but by the turn of the century the library, situated on the third floor, had more than 7,000 books.

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