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MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University will offer the distance education courses, Grant Writing: Finding the Elusive Dollar, EDACE 786, and Fundamentals of Nonprofit Organization 1xbet online games login , EDLST 502, in the fall 2009 semester.

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