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Lunchtime Lock-in at schools to stop rush for chippie
Many well run secondary schools already operate this system unless a child has specific permission to go home for lunch - and that means home - not hanging around the shopping arcades or fast food outlets. With... Fit kids who eat well are better students, study finds
Yep, makes sense to me. As with most things, quality input yields better output."When a quarter-million Ontario school children were prepping for last week's province-wide tests in the "3 Rs," they may have... Junk dealer's $100,000 gold cup found under bed
" DORCHESTER, England (CNN) -- Englishman John Webber thought nothing of the small, shiny cup, passed down from his junk dealer grandfather and stashed under a bed for years, until appraisers said it was an ancient...Ashes of Pringles can designer buried in his invention
The unique Pringles potato chip packages, created by Fredric J. Baur, have been used in a number of creative ways: they can hold up to 3 tennis balls, they can be used as 'cannons' or poppers to hold...Google Offers Powerful Tools for Free, Will Monetize Later
"Google's first developer conference, I/O, was definitely a huge success for the company. Hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, it attracted more than 2,900 developers despite the $400 they had to pay to get in. However, Google made sure everybody got their money's... MySpace Wins $234M Suit Against Spammers
Facebook has had its own set of problems, but nothing on the scale of the 735,000+ spam messages sent to members on MySpace.My own account was so inundated with it that I refused to check my account on MySpace for... Dirty 30: Happy Birthday, Spam
Thirty years of spam. Yes, that makes spam older than most email applications. Sort of crushes your spirit, doesn't it? Indeed, here at NowPublic, we get our share of spam, in the form of articles, comments, private... American bourses bouncing back
After a couple of month's bearish trend, American stock market is slowly recovering and even junks bonds are rallying. " Main Street may be struggling, but Wall Street is on a bit of a roll.Despite a drumbeat of bad economic news, the stock market is up — almost 11 percent... Spitzer Lynching and Bank Bailouts Linked
"While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an "escort" $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200... Crack-down on children's junk food ads
It is really shocking to learn that childhood obesity is on the rise, and it is no guess that the majority of the blame can be placed on the never-ending junk food advertisements aimed at children. From the... Fight junk mail with red dots
Tired of religious coupons in the mail? A red dot may be just the thing."A Vancouver businesswoman is launching a new campaign to help people who want to cut down on junk mail.
The Red Dot Campaign aims to draw... Facebook tackles Bhutto hoaxers
"Social networking site Facebook says it has taken down two bogus profiles of Bilawal Bhutto, son of the murdered Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.
An investigation found the entries "not authentic" and in breach of Facebook terms of use, a company statement said.
A number... Britons 'love fast food more than Americans'
"America's reputation as the home of fast food is under threat from the British, who are more addicted to burgers, chips and pizza than any other nation in the world. Almost half of all Britons would be unable to... Holy attic find, Batman! Rare comic grabs huge price
Most of us find spiderwebs and old diaries when we clean out our attics; not so for a Pennsylvania man who found a near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27 in his attic. The DC comic series, then its infant stages,... Spammers Hijack Youtube Tools... Makes Me Crabby
There's lots of spam on Youtube, this we all know. After a long day of flagging (carrots for the good stuff, big ol' stick for the spam), yours truly has been known to rock over to Youtube in search of amateur...
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