The best design award went to the College of New Jersey in Ewing in the college division, and Graff Career Center in the high school division.

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Physical activity is a learned behavior, says one of the competition's judges, Avery Faigenbaum, a professor of health and exercise science at The College of New Jersey.

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Dr. Ramona Hernandez, director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College of New York, said New Jersey Dominicans are getting more politically involved.

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After returning from Vietnam, Cotsakos earned a college degree in New Jersey, and then dropped out of UCLA's drama program.

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Fabiano was born into a musical family in New Jersey but went to college at the University of Michigan intending to major in business and economics.

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The other two cases concerned lawsuits in federal court by a New Jersey bank against the state of Florida for infringing its patent on a college-savings scheme and for false advertising and unfair competition under a federal trademark law.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

New Jersey is merging its medical college into Rutgers University, and there are four sets of mergers in Georgia alone.

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