Johnson will offer graduate degrees on the new campus, including joint degrees with applied-science programs, said Kent Fuchs, the university's provost.

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"That's pretty amazing, " Fuchs said of the fast-rising river.

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"There's a symmetry here, " says Fuchs.

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Michael Fuchs, deputy chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU parliamentary group, said his faction would not give Greece the two-year extension it wants on its austerity programme.

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The club's license had expired in August and had not been renewed, local fire official Moises da Silva Fuchs told Globo TV.

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"Instead of the goopy Baroque or Venetian-style chandeliers with 20 colors, we're now seeing one color with maybe another color added on the details, " said Mr. Fuchs, who has written and illustrated "The Pattern Book of Lighting, " a guidebook to lighting that's out this month.

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