A 29-year-old erstwhile computer programmer in Richardson reprograms vintage electronics to produce unusual sounds for original music broadcast at treewave.com.

Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday the state needs to overhaul a law requiring state colleges and universities to accept all students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For a magazine that persuaded Harvard students to pose nude, the launch party for H Bomb was a decidedly sedate affair. Much of the Boston press corps covered the event, the quiet finale to what started in February as quite the scandal at the most elite of Ivy League institutions.

Wesleyan University's Tim Ku teaches a course on forensic geology, a field that mines clues from rocks, dirt and other earthly materials to aid criminal investigations. Wesleyan is one of only a handful of universities in the nation to offer a course entirely on the subject.