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[9 Dec 2011 | No Comment | ]
Top 10 Uses for Leftover Turkey

Donate it to the Occupy movement. If they won’t take it, we hear Lady Gaga needs a new costume. (Read on for more!)

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[28 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]
Meet the NOVA Police Department

One of the National Capital Region’s best-kept law enforcement secrets is the high level of capability and professionalism in the NOVA College Police Department.

Headline, Off Campus, Politics, Thoughts »

[22 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]
Views From Occupy Wall Street

On Wall Street in New York City a man in a dark green hooded sweatshirt festooned with buttons climbs atop a fountain. He’s surrounded by hundreds of likeminded people. Not all of them wear buttons, nor do they belong to any one group. Their common tie: they are all unhappy with economic inequality, the cause that brings them here.

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[9 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]
Fatal Motorcycle Crash in Oakton: Did Age Play a Part?

An 85-year-old Oakton man operating a 1995 Pontiac Grand Prix, exited a post office parking lot and attempted to turn left onto White Granite from a service road.

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[3 Oct 2011 | 2 Comments | ]
Your Money Pays for Student Activity Fee

Did you know that you pay not just for your subjects but also for a student activities fee?

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[21 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
The Hidden Perks of In-Store Retail Shopping

For customers of all demographics, there are perks and benefits to shopping in-store that you may not have taken advantage of — possibly not even realizing these perks existed.

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[20 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
JewelMint or Bank Robbed: The Inside Scoop On Retail Subscription Services

Countless shoppers have signed up for these monthly style subscription retailing sites, only to find after not reading the fine print that they have accrued hidden fees charged to their credit cards.

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[12 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
My Life After 9/11: Growing up Muslim in America

A lot of what I heard that morning didn’t quite register. I had emigrated from Saudi Arabia just two years before, and I was still struggling with English.

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[12 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]
What’s Under That Hijab?

The events of 9/11 have created a national feeling of fear. Sometimes it’s invisible. Other times it is wrapped around you like a thin sweater you can forget you have on.

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[29 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Honor Flight: Helping Our WWII Veterans

Several times each semester, NOVA’s Community Relations Coordinator Ken Balbuena gathers NOVA volunteers to help greet the Honor Flights of the rapidly-decreasing generation of World War II veterans.