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Noted: Also going to the National Spelling Bee will be his coach, Jeff Kirsch, who teaches Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies. He met Andrew when he first began competing in fifth grade when Kirsch was coaching another contestant.

Quoted: But Tom Reason, interim director of admissions at UW-Madison, said that eliminating class rank will not necessarily mean that more of a high schoolâ??s students will be admitted. It means different students might be admitted, he said.

Only two candidates remain in the race for the Republican nomination for US Senate. However, UW Political Scientist Charles Franklin says businessmen Ron Johnson and David Westlake will need to overcome their outsider status if they hope to compete.

Several hundred dogs and cats in southeastern Wisconsin may need to be revaccinated after being given expired rabies vaccines. But an animal-vaccination expert at the University of Wisconsin says the expired vaccines are probably still effective.

Quoted: “We use a truckload of spironolactone,” says James Stein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Itâ??s hard to beat a drug that costs four bucks at Wal-Mart and has been around for fifty years.” He says he mainly switches patients to Inspra when men had breast growth or tenderness, a side effect he says is rare.

Quoted: “I think the most important point here for Republicans is the prize for them is the fall election,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon. “They want to have a chance to beat Russ Feingold and so to have the party coalescing behind one candidate now is to their advantage for sure.”

Quoted: “If you said there was a candidate who entered the race five days before the convention and five days later stood as the odds-on favorite, you would think that candidate was (former GOP Governor) Tommy Thompson,” said Charles Franklin, UW-Madison poltical science professor. “Instead, itâ??s a guy most of us have not heard of before.”

Quoted: Farmers are â??looking for low-cost reliable workers,â? said Brad Barham, a dairy researcher with the UW-Madison Program on Agricultural Technology Studies, which conducted the study of immigrantsâ?? roles on dairy farms.

Quoted: Dr. Michael A. Stier, a forensic pathologist with UW-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health, wrote that the childâ??s injuries were non-accidental and were “inconsistent with the reported history of being sustained from a fall down a short flight of steps,” according to the complaint.

Noted: For the last two years, the agency has awarded money for “buy local” projects, including $35,000 to the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC), $25,000 to Underground Catering in Madison to develop traditionally made pork products, and $20,000 to the UW-Madisonâ??s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems to beef up Wisconsin apple distribution to the stateâ??s K-12 schools.

“The number of farmerâ??s markets in the region has increased almost exponentially in the past five or six years,” said Rick Brooks, outreach program manager and one of the founders of Dane Buy Local, an organization of local businesses that encourage local commerce. “East side, north side, west side, south side and many smaller communities host markets,” he noted.

Quoted: If companies find their costs are more predictable, they can be â??more focused on operations that should improve quality and improve value,â? said Mark Ready, UW-Madison School of Business professor.