Indulge in green tourism at Israel's landfill turned park

This is the beginning of a big push for more environmentally responsible efforts at changing the way we handle waste and  the responsibility to create positive green areas out of former blights. The picture...

Photographers Without Borders Announces 2009 Charity Calendar Now On Sale

Photographers Without Borders is proud to announce the release of its second charity desk calendar. The calendar contains fine art photographs submitted by photographers from around the world. Proceeds raised...

France - a "working" week in the life of a country

Hello or "bonjour" from France, the country of liberté, égalité, fraternité - oh yes and of course industrial action.Within the space of barely a week, pilots, train drivers, teachers and postal workers will all...

RICH KIDS GETTING ZONED OUT

"RICH KIDS GETTING ZONED OUT PARENTS RIP SCHOOL SWITCH Comments: 1 Read Comments Leave a Comment By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter Click to enlarge Posted: 3:41...

To be Young, Gifted and Black (a Wiccan Perspective)

"I wish that my Grandmother were alive today. She grew up in Jim Crow Tennessee and moved to Detroit with the rest of her family for a better life in the then industrial capital of the world. At the time of her death...

Area religion class nets suit

"The parent of a Huntington elementary school student sued the school district in federal court because of a religious education program the parent wants shut down. Filed Wednesday by attorneys with the American...

Elementary Social Studies Should Include More Cultural Anthropology

First I'd like to share a quote from the first lecture in Edward Fischer's Teaching Company course Peoples and Cultures of the World. He defines cultural anthropology by describing how it differs from other...

Unesco: Venezuela shows high schooling rates

"  Venezuela shows schooling rates of about 100 percent. This is a proof that almost all the population is going to school (...) Therefore, we believe that thanks to the initiatives to fight inequality in...

School Promo: Skip School, Watch Hockey

The big what for at the local hockey arena this Wednesday afternoon was exactly that, a big what for. How dare the Ontario Hockey League and home team Mississauga St-Michael’s Majors schedule a school-daze...

UK to cut immigration from outside Europe

"LONDON, Nov 11: Britain on Tuesday published a list of industry sectors open to workers from outside Europe, which the government says will reduce by 200,000 the number of jobs open to migrants from outside Europe. Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said the government had...

Battling with bureaucracy - one boy's struggle to learn a language in France

It's one of those simple stories that you hear about time after time in many countries around the world, when rules and regulations are followed "to the letter" no matter how nonsensical they might appear.This one...

The Ministry of Silly Walks – playing at a capital near you

"ByAyesha Tammy Haq As our finance gurus try to work out ways in which to sugar-coat that very bitter pill, the IMF, we wonder how they are going to explain the latest burden on an already empty exchequer. The prime minister has said that the newly...

Shock tactics in anti-obesity drive

With fatness seen as a vanity problem rather than a health problem new research shows many people are not picking up the message that energy-dense foods such as burgers, chips, cakes and other fatty and sweet foods...

Ikea Spoof commercial - desperate plea to get on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch

Cindy Martin, Founder of Cash for Creations, Inc., a company who pays teachers for their original ideas of educational visual aids, manufactures the products and sells them on-line, wants to be on The Big Idea with...

How to Fix the Bank, Job, Energy, Health, and Education Problem With One Stone.

The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By: Rev. Jermano   Now that we have the election over with and successfully elected our new President Barack Obama I only want to say thanks America. I...

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