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Since their beginning in 2005, Confucius Institutes (CIs) have been set up to teach Chinese language classes in more than 100 American colleges and universities, including large and substantial institutions like Rutgers University, the State Universities of New York at Binghamton and Albany, Purdue, Emory, Stanford, and others. In addition, there are now about 500 sister

Betty Jean Carol Rice, 79, of Willmar, died Friday, July 7th, peacefully in her sleep at the family cabin on Grant Lake, near Alexandria, after an only a weeks-long struggle with an aggressive form of cancer. Her funeral will be 2:00 pm, Saturday, July 15th, at Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar with visitation one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment will be at a later date in Spring Creek Cemetery, rural Sunburg. www.hafh.org

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The city is subsiding between two millimeters and four millimeters a year under the weight of all its buildings, a scientist has found.

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Nine members of Burnham-On-Sea's Harriers Running Club will be taking part in the London Marathon this coming weekend.