Death-plunge mystery of City's whizkid - Bush's UK dummy?

" To his friends and family he was already a spectacular success - apparently heading for the summit in the bruising world of finance. Oxford graduate Anjool Malde was about to celebrate his 25th birthday and...

The Governator tells USC 2009 graduates to fight on

After he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree, Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered the commencement address to 4,500 graduates at the University of Southern California on Friday. C.J. Dablo reports. " After...

ARTIST'S WORK ON SHOW

A DUNCAN of Jordanstone Art College graduate has returned to Dundee to exhibit at The Queens Gallery Christmas Show. Frank To, who graduated with a Masters of Fine Art degree, is exhibiting a ...

Nintendo DS - A Teaching Tool

"Redux::A Year Ago Today - Nintendo DS As A Teaching Tool… Redux! About this time last year, we touched base on how Japan has embraced its personal technology - Nintendo DS - to help in the education of its kids.  Little did we...

In dissection protest, teen's name is now Cutout Dissection.com

"ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (AP) -- You can call her Cutout Dissection.com, or Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer. The former Jennifer Thornburg -- whose driver's license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout -- wanted to do something to protest animal dissections...

Chicago schools paying for good grades

Will kids work harder in school if they're paid for good grades?  Chicago schools are banking that they will by offering cash to students who do well in the five core subjects of; English, Math, Science,...

Canada's first sex-ed grad school opens at U of T

The University of Toronto will offer Canada's first grad program in sexual diversity studies this fall. Up until now, Canadian universities have only offered undergraduate programs in the discipline, but U of T...

Your Future without Debt!

" There is a lack of financial and investment education in our schools, among the many things not taught. If you are a high school graduate that doesn't know much about finance, except how to write a check and balance your check book, investing or saving for retirement...

Students unable to manage finances

The UK National Union of Students is asking for more help to educate students in money management as research  reveals that students finished their studies last year with over £17500 worth of debt, and this...

Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market

"...a simple desire to change the world." –by By ANNE MARIE CHAKER –"...growing ranks of college graduates who, amid a worsening job market, are contributing to a surge in applications and enlistments at public-service agencies like Teach for America and the Peace Corps....

US woman gets 4 years jail for killing Indian

A  US women has been sentenced for 4 years after she hit an Indian student in US. "A US woman, whose car accidentally ran over an Indian student last year, has been sentenced to four years in jail by an Ohio court. The 27-year-old Hankinson had ran a red light,...

A Jewish State in Germany as an Artwork

In the name of ART everything is possible. Ron Edelman a graduate student at an art university in Weimar, relying heavily on this axiom, proposes to launch an alternative Jewish state in Germany in the state of...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Radical Islam: "Insult to Free Speech"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Canadian who takes exception to Canada's Free Speech, certainly has not witnessed the horrors of repressed speech as the world is full of detractors to free...

Two Harvard Grads work to bring change in Kenya's largest slum

"Nairobi's Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding...

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