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The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn), one of the eight members of the Ivy League, is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1]

University of Pennsylvania is a private institution that was founded in 1740. [2]

For more than two centuries, the University of Pennsylvania has been committed to excellence in scholarship, research and service. [3]

Popular Science magazine named Penn Engineering’s Katherine Kuchenbecker to its annual “Brilliant 10″ list of the country’s top young scientists to watch. [4]

Welcome to Penn, a place to pursue knowledge beyond traditional boundaries. [5]

Penn is a world-class teaching and research institution, proudly furthering the legacy of its founder Benjamin Franklin, who believed in the unceasing importance of intellectual innovation. [6]

The Penn Quakers have more than 25 NCAA Division I sports that compete in the Ivy League, and are noted for successful basketball and lacrosse teams. [...] Penn, though secular, has a strong religious life with its Hillel for Jewish students, Penn Newman Catholic Center, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. [2]

Arts and culture are at the center of campus life and Penn offers a wide range of activities and programs for both the campus and the community. [6]

Your college search can be enhanced through technology. [...] When planning your SAT and ACT testing, please keep in mind that candidates to the School of Engineering and Applied Science or the Wharton School are encouraged to take a Mathematics Subject Test. [4]

The school also offers a number of clubs and organizations, ranging from performance groups like the Latin and Ballroom dance club to student publications such as the Penn Political Review. [2]

The University seeks to admit talented young men and women from diverse economic backgrounds, ensuring that all high-achieving students have access to a Penn education. [6]

Ben Franklin was a true Renaissance man, known for his devotion to education, support for intellectual pursuits and commitment to the public good. [5]

Within the college houses, Penn has nearly forty themed residential programs for students with shared interests such as world cinema or science and technology. [1]

Sources:
[1] University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] University of Pennsylvania | Best College | US News
[3] University of Pennsylvania - Topuniversities
[4] Penn: Undergraduate Admissions
[5] Penn: About Penn
[6] University of Pennsylvania

Online presentation of several Pakistan newspapers and magazines, including major daily The News. [1]

They will now meet the winner of the second semi-final between India and Pakistan to be played in India today. [...] Sri Lanka repeated their act of 2007 in the Caribbean by beating New Zealand by five wickets to enter the final of the 2011 World Cup. [2]

Local and international news out of Lahore. [...] Daily news from Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. [1]

Sri Lanka gave World record holder Muttiah Muralitharan a fitting farewell in his final One Day International at home by winning the ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup semifinal clash against New Zealand at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. [2]

Indian Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai (R) shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhary Qamar Zaman (L) during a Indo-Pak meeting in New Delhi March 28. [3]

Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara drives on the off side. [2]

Pillai and Zaman will talk about dismantling the terror camps across the border and handing over the voice samples of Mumbai terror attack masterminds. [3]

News and photo wire service, dedicated to issues that are neglected by the mainstream media. [...] Online local newspaper from Attock (Punjab province). [...] News and information site advocating self-determination right for Balochistan. [...] Pertains mainly towards voicing issues of the Province of Sindh. [1]

Sources:
[1] Pakistan Newspapers and News Sites
[2] Sri Lanka Sports News | Online edition of Daily News …
[3] World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers

“Olive grove” and “Olive tree” redirect here. [1]

The olive tree boasts two prizes—the olive itself (called the table olive) and the precious oil pressed from the fruit's flesh. [2]

Canned black olives may contain chemicals (usually ferrous sulfate) that turn them black artificially. [1]

Oleaceae, the olives and relatives, is a plant family containing 24 extant genera of woody plants, including shrubs, trees and vines. [3]

Green olives are picked when they have reached their normal size, just before they change color. [4]

Olives grow erratically (unless the trees are cultivated and irrigated) and tend to either produce in alternate years or bear heavy crops and light ones alternately. [2]

The name olive also refers to the edible fruit of this tree, a small drupe that is major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil and as a food. [3]

The olive tree is known for its exceptional longevity. [4]

A Mediterranean evergreen tree (Olea europaea) having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes. [5]

The tree and its fruit give its name to the plant family, which also includes species such as lilacs, jasmine, Forsythia and the true ash trees (Fraxinus). [1]

The small ovoid fruit of this tree, an important food and source of oil. [5]

Olives mature on the tree and can be harvested for green table olives when the fruit is immature or left on the tree to ripen. [2]

Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil. [1]

Around 600 B.C., they had a merchant marine and stock market just for the oil trade. [2]

The olive tree produces an abundant quantity of fleshy fruit, whose size, flesh and color vary depending on variety, climate and method of cultivation. [4]

Sources:
[1] Olive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] olives: Information from Answers.com
[3] Olive - New World Encyclopedia
[4] olive: Definition from Answers.com
[5] olive - definition of olive by the Free Online Dictionary …

In 1975 Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft, which grew into one of the great success stories of the personal computer era. [1]

At Lakeside School, Paul Allen (14 years old) and friend Bill Gates (12 years old) became early computer enthusiasts. [2]

While attending the Lakeside School outside Seattle, 14-year-old Paul Allen met 12-year-old Bill Gates, a fellow student and computer enthusiast. [3]

The Microsoft cofounder has recently sued what at first glance looks like half of Silicon Valley. [4]

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$12.7 billion as of 2010. [5]

On his own he has made a name for himself as a founder of and shrewd investor in hi-tech firms like Starwave, America Online and Ticketmaster, and as the enthusiastic owner of the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers and the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. [1]

Less than a decade later, in June 1975, Allen and Gates, both college dropouts; Allen from Washington State University founded Microsoft with the intention of designing software for the new wave of personal computers. [3]

Paul G. Allen (born 1953) co - founded one of the world’s most lucrative and influential companies, the Microsoft Corporation, in 1974. [1]

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$13.5 billion as of 2010. [6]

Allen runs a venture capital firm, Vulcan Ventures, and has created the Experience Music Project, a museum of music history, in Seattle, Washington. [2]

Bill Gates schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. from his co-founder during the early days of the software company following his partner’s treatment for cancer, according to a new memoir by the billionaire co-founder, Paul Allen. [4]

Former Microsoft geek added considerable luster to jock credentials when his NFL Seattle Seahawks went to the Super Bowl in 2006; this year made it to the second round of the playoffs. [7]

Brett Lorenzo Favre (; Favre started ten games during his freshman year and won six of them. [5]

His investments were diverse: America Online, SureFind (an online classified ads service), Teluscan (an online financial service), Starwave (an online content provider), hardware, software, and wireless communications. [3]

Losing ground on World’s Billionaires rankings, but should have ranked lower all along: Our previous net worth estimates failed to account for high levels of debt, other investment losses following burst of tech bubble. [7]

Sources:
[1] Paul Allen: Biography from Answers.com
[2] Paul Allen
[3] Paul Allen Biography - Biography.com
[4] Forbes - Paul Allen
[5] Paul Allen
[6] Paul Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] #19 Paul Allen - Forbes.com

Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases. [...] This article is about the television series. [1]

Judge Judith Sheindlin tackles real-life small claims in her courtroom with her no nonsense attitude. [2]

Having made a name for herself as a tough but fair judge in New York’s Family Court, Judge Judith Sheindlin retired from the bench in 1996 and segued into television to host the syndicated series, whose ninth season premiers on Monday, September 13, 2004. [...] Smart, savvy and opinionated, the irrepressible Judge Judith Sheindlin holds court as presiding judge over real-life cases on the highly successful courtroom series JUDGE JUDY. [3]

Judge Judith Sheindlin brings her trademark wit and wisdom to the widely successful half-hour series that takes viewers inside a television courtroom where justice is dispensed at lightning speed. [2]

In 1976, Mayor Ed Koch appointed her a judge, first in criminal court and later, in 1980, as Manhattan’s supervising family court judge. [...] Sheindlin attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn before going on to American University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in government. [...] She passed the New York Bar examination in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. [4]

For its scenes, Judge Judy is shown in a different courtroom from her own (part of a proposed renovation to the courtroom but was rejected by Sheindlin for being too dark), approaching the camera, followed by folding her arms, and smiling at the camera. [1]

It also features the phrases “State of New York” and “Family Court” (Sheindlin was previously a New York family court judge) According to Sheindlin’s biography, producers of her show were disappointed that the show was barely making it on the radar. [5]

At that time, it was never expected that the show’s ratings would ever compete with highly successful daytime TV shows, such as Wheel of Fortune, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the now defunct Rosie O’Donnell Show. [...] The show’s creation stemmed from Judith Sheindlin ’s reputation as one of the most outspoken family court judges in the country, becoming the topic of a Los Angeles Times article in February 1993. [1]

The series is in first-run syndication and distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the successor company to its previous distributors Worldvision Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and CBS Paramount Domestic Television. [5]

She went on to New York Law School, receiving her law degree in 1965 and began practicing law in Manhattan. [3]

Sources:
[1] Judge Judy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Judge Judy on TV.com
[3] Judge Judy on Myspace
[4] Judith Sheindlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Judge Judy