The robot glides past the beeping heart monitor, past a row of patients supine on their electric beds, past the beehive of the nurses’ station. The sleek, metallic body, dusky blue, stops outside Room 9 and slowly rolls through the doorway. “Mrs. Morash, Dr. Liesching’s here,’’ says nurse Dawn Deschenes, announcing the arrival of the robot to a gray-haired woman breathing behind an oxygen mask.

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Nestled among the trees and centuries-old homes here in a posh hilltop neighborhood, Newbury College has long been over- shadowed in a region famous for its high-powered universities. But now, like many small colleges whose futures have grown increasingly uncertain amid economic upheaval, the 900-student school is desperately trying to raise its profile in a quest for survival.

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The cost of auto insurance in Massachusetts has fallen since the state stopped setting rates a little more than a year ago, the Division of Insurance said yesterday. According to a state study, auto insurance rates dropped 8.2 percent from April 2008 to April 2009, compared with a 5.2 percent decline from 2006 to 2007.

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Immigration authorities had bad news this week for American Apparel, the T-shirt maker based in downtown Los Angeles: About 1,800 of its employees appeared to be illegal immigrants not authorized to work in the United States.  But in contrast to the high-profile raids that marked the enforcement approach of the Bush administration, no federal agents with criminal warrants stormed the company’s factories and rounded up employees.

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Volunteer for a nonprofit.  Show me you care.  I am not waiting too long for you.

From Papa:

My son wonders why other adults do not spend time with kids volunteering.  There are always more kids than adults.  He feels bad for the kids who have to be on their own.  He says that adults say “Blah Blah Blah Blah” for why they do not have the time.  I have found some of the busiest people to be the most resourceful to volunteer.  So if you have time to watch TV or go out for a beer you have time to volunteer.