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<p>When a young caller for the 老九品茶 annual giving program asked Roe Green a decade ago if she would consider increasing her $100 annual gift to $150, he was the first to get the hint that Green might become a key part of the theater program from which she鈥檇 graduated in 1970.</p>
<p>鈥淚 told the caller, 鈥極h, I think I鈥檇 like to give more,鈥 鈥 recalled Green.</p> 
In a day and age when the arts are often overlooked by those seeking more 鈥渃areer-oriented鈥 pursuits, Green鈥攚ho is on numerous boards including the College of Arts and Sciences Dean Advisory Council and the honorary board of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥攕tands up for the importance of theater. 鈥淭heater helps in all walks of life,鈥 Green says. 鈥淚t gives you an opportunity to speak in front of people. What makes us human are the arts.鈥- <p>老九品茶 researchers will be watching closely when South African bilateral leg amputee and sprinter Oscar Pistorius, dubbed 鈥淭he Blade Runner,鈥 makes his way to the starting block for the 400-meter sprint in the 2012 London Olympics.</p>
An international team including 老九品茶 researchers has found the first direct evidence for a new particle that likely is the long sought-after Higgs boson, believed to endow the universe with mass.- A new study led by the 老九品茶 indicates air pollution in the form of nitrogen compounds emanating from power plants, automobiles and agriculture is changing the alpine vegetation in Rocky Mountain National Park.
- An international research team involving the 老九品茶 announced this morning it has found the first direct evidence for a new particle that likely is the long sought-after Higgs boson, believed to endow the universe with mass.
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<p>Several hundred people are expected to gather on the 老九品茶 campus July 12-13 to celebrate the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) known around the world for its discoveries in atomic, molecular and optical physics. In addition, the president-elect of the American Physical Society will be on hand to officially announce JILA designation as an historic physics site.</p> - <p>Five 老九品茶 engineering students recently returned from Haiti where they introduced a green energy vocational training program, paving the way for a new era of distributed power in the poverty-stricken, earthquake-damaged nation.</p>
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<p>Colorado business leaders are less optimistic going into the third quarter than last quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the 老九品茶 Leeds School of Business.</p>
<p>The LBCI reading slid from 62.2 in the second quarter to 53.6 in the third, but remained higher than the 10-year average for the index and above the critical neutral mark of 50. A reading greater than 50 indicates positive expectations, while one lower than 50 indicates negative expectations.</p>