" After graduating from Cambridge University with a starred First Class degree, Mandy Kaye has the world at her feet. She achieved the highest possible grade, the only student in her faculty to do so. But she...
"Wang Cheng, 24, cannot work or even wear trousers because of the grotesque and painful elephantiasis which has dogged her since the age of six and left her with legs weighing 50 kilos. "I cannot go out to work,"...
"A new career for engineers has appeared in the last three years, and American universities are responding to the call, with several now offering, or plan to offer, students degrees in renewable energy engineering. The Oregon Institute of Technology will be graduating the...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
"Google is expanding its empire into universities - with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google's e-mail service.
This will give the internet company a "relationship for life" with students - who can carry on using these e-mail addresses after...
"The head of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Iraq said the country had become a "university of terrorism", producing highly qualified warriors, since the 2003 US-led invasion.
In an audio recording posted on the Internet today, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled...
"Motivation through Hardship
Sometimes, the best lessons and the strongest motivations come from our hardest experiences in life.
My friend Quinn Simons and I met in college in Colorado, became fast friends, and did...
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"Where Sitting Bull slumbers is anyone's guess, though at the moment it's certainly under a blanket of snow.
The mystery of where the famous Sioux chief's remains are buried and a renewed interest in Indian history have led to a pair of major projects at two sites that...