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By clock on April 15, 2010. Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Leah D. Gordon from MEASURE Evaluation to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geog...

high as 50%. account for the people who stopped looking for work. news that 130 current and former d.c. workers have been caught collecting unemployment checks while on the job is not sitting well. >> it seemed like everyone in government -- that's why programs, they have programs it help people get jobs. >> that cost tax pairs $840,000. sources say, 45 workers in the public school system collected illegal checks, many of them classroom teachers. three staffers to former d.c. councilman, harry thomas jr., collected unemployment checks while still on the job. after thomas resigned in ...

northeast d.c. with the latest on this story. pat? >> reporter: wendy, at times people describe clay terrace as a war zone. indeed, there are some army-grade weapons hidden around this neighborhood. look what they found today. high-powered assault weapons taken from a clay terrace home this afternoon. this came as a result of a raid by d.c. police and fbi agents, members of a violent crimes task force. a gun sniffing dog deployed here to find the rifles. they say the search is linked to an arrest in clay terrace yesterday afternoon. they're trying to see if these weapons are connecte...