College offers free tuition to Maine students in hurricane area - Boston.com

LEWISTON, Maine --Maine undergraduates studying at colleges and universities in the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina will be able to continue their education tuition-free at Bates College this fall.The liberal arts college said Thursday that students from...

Water in New Orleans is Toxic Gumbo

CNN is saying that the water quality in New Orleans is a 'toxic gumbo' and is a serious health hazzard.

New school year, new battle over evolution

A nationally watched court case and a polarizing local school board election have made Dover, Pa., a flash point for those ...

New exhibit at London Zoo - humans - Yahoo! News

LONDON (AFP) - London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition -- eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty. The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolick throughout the August bank holiday...

NPR : Battle Brewing over California Tribal Expansion

There's a battle brewing in the Santa Barbara wine country of Southern California -- and it has nothing to do with grapes. The Chumash band of Santa Ynez Mission Indians want to use profits from its casino to expand its land holdings and business ventures.

Lessons Learned

What a place Iraq is.  You go to bed to the sound of .50 caliber machine gun fire and wake up to 120 degree F (or hotter) temperatures.  You get bombed and shot at and you carry a gun and body armor.  You get to shoot and kill people too.In Iraq I found out many things. ...

Civil Rights Leader Rev. Leon Lowry Dies

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Rev. A. Leon Lowry, a prominent local civil rights leader who once taught Martin Luther King Jr. and led the desegregation of public facilities in Tampa, has died at 92. Lowry died Saturday of congestive heart failure. He had been admitted to St. Joseph's...

P.O.V. - The Education of Shelby Knox | PBS

A self-described "good Southern Baptist girl," 15-year-old Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas has pledged abstinence until marriage. But she becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed when she finds that Lubbock, where high schools teach abstinence as the...