Special-needs Student, 22, left on NYC Bus all Night in Cold

NEW YORK - A 22 year old man with cerebral palsy was left on a school bus by a driver and spent the entire frigid night alone.  I know I, for one, was watching the celebrations in Times Square, and remember...

Man shocked at being £100bn in the red

Imagine waking up looking forward to the New Year, going online to check just how much you spent over Christmas and finding your account was £100 billion in the red! That's exactly what happened to student Donald...

Alcoholism Associated With High Childhood IQ

New research has unearthed a link between high childhood IQ and adult drinking habits - habits which may lead to problem drinking. " This association is even stronger among women than among men. Research by Dr G....

Gleaning feeding on Fugee Fridays

It is so wonderful to see these young social activists take their vision and translate it into action. There are over 80 volunteers helping gather the food and bringing it to the African Refugees. The have also...

DOUBLE CLICK: Free Speech And Fair-Play

A pertinent question and analysis by Canada-based Pakistani, journalist Maheen Rashdi."Does our bigoted world allow free speech to all? No. Some always pay a price. Early November, the University of King’s College...

SecondLife.com: Are Virtual Worlds the Future of Education?

SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities...

Muslim Law: State Ordered Hormone Injections For Homosexuals

             My friend Abdullah likes to laugh. He laughs about mid-term exams that go horribly wrong, weekend parties at his house where way too many...

Sasha, Malia Will Attend Chelsea's Alma Mater

"Malia and Sasha Obama will enroll at Sidwell Friends School, the Quaker institution that educated Chelsea Clinton, Michelle Obama's spokeswoman said today. The girls visited both Sidwell and Georgetown Day School...

Conversation cops at Queen's

Hardly a day passes these days without Queens' University screwing something new up.  Today I got an email from the school (I am an alumnus) explaining that they hadn't instituted a policy of deploying thought...

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...

Closed Doors Leave Disabled Students Behind

Entrance to educational services with handicap accessible door lacking of push-buttons and indicating handicap symbol hinders handicap student access to building and. The Blue handicap symbol near the door of the...

Are We Being Re-Wired?

According to research the use of technology today is rewiring our brains. Dosen't that sound scary. Well research has indicated that "digital natives" which are people who have been born in this new digital era...

Major Leeds Student Letting Agents Providence Properties Put To Shame On BBC...

"Monday 3rd November 2008 sees Providence Properties and Providence Lets, letting agents for student properties in Leeds, shamed on BBC’s Watchdog for not returning students’ deposit money. Over the past 18 months the Student Advice Centre at Leeds University Union ...

Poetic laurels to Obama, but not as poet laureate

President-elect Barack Obama often alludes to his time at the Harvard Law Review.  However, it took the Library of Congress and its study of presidents as poets to unearth Sen. Obama's poetic side."When...

Senator Kennedy encourages DEA to provide Medical Marijuana for research

" June 11, 2008, 10:53 am Medical Marijuana Links By John Tierney We’ve been discussing the presidential candidates’ positions on medical marijuana. Here are a couple of other interesting reports...

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