A few Islamic women refuse to have photos on their driver's licenses, or photos only with full coverage. Now a fundamentalist Christian preacher and his group say that driver's license photos and Real ID are "the mark of the Beast" and they will not participate without...
Students at MIT have invented a new craze in WiFi network security: Warcarting, using an abandonned shopping cart stuffed with computers and antennas to go hunting for wireless networks, wireless phones and all kinds of fun stuff. Htey are creating a new kind of trash chic in...
created by maleger | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 483 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Police today have released the names of the two Chinese students found dead in a house in Newcastle's West End. The couple had met as students at Newcastle University and were locally perceived as very pleasant...
An academic in the UK has suggested that university professors being accepting variant spellings as legitimate, in light of the fact that spelling errors are growing more and more frequent in university courses. Some misspellings that he's suggested accepting include "ignor",...
created by Dave Keating | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 357 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
" Zinch is an interactive website for high school students and colleges. It is also a good tool for students and parents alike to find out more about a particular school. Any high school student in the world, free of charge, can create a comprehensive online profile to help...
This UK study presents some disturbing results."A third of Muslim students in Britain believe killing someone in the name of religion is justified, a new poll claims. The survey found that extreme Islamist ideology has a profound influence on a significant minority of...
In this tragic incident girl student died in their sleep. The girls were reportedly attending Koran lesson. More news are expected. " At least 13 schoolgirls were killed in their sleep and 22 injured when a dormitory collapsed early Friday in central Turkey, local...
The trial of a school matron accused of abusing students at Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls has begun in Johannesburg. Thankfully, the details of the proceedings are being kept from frenized media...
Banur (Mera Chandigarh): One pretext of Universal Elementary Education scheme sponsored by World Bank in India under name Sarv Shikha Abhiyaan (SSA) it hard to report that adjoining village of Tricity Chandigarh, a Primary school located at Buddanpur village (Punjab) was...
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The following (bold my comments) is from an article on about.com that disucssed the reasons a child may be "fired" from daycare. I include it here because it summarizes a similar dilemma faced by too many public schools today: being forced to accept handicapped...
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"""""""""Visitor medical insurance has become an essential part of the global economy today. Now-a-days, the frequency of the people traveling abroad is on an increase. If anyone is traveling within his/her own country, they need not apply for a separate policy to cover them...
Britain's culture of teenagers out of control continues today, with a group of Spanish children ambushed by Sheffiled mob - recently notorious for "postcode" gang culture. " The...
Congratulations! Show to the world, Indonesia known not only as the terrorist's or the corruptor nest.."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Eight elementary school students representing Indonesia in "The 12th Po Leng Kuk Elementary International Contest for Math" held in Hong Kong July...
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Under a new plan by the UK government, teachers in Britain are going to be given the authority to search students. Teachers are currently only allowed to search students for knives or other dangerous weapons. "Teachers are to be given the authority to search pupils for drink,...
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Updates: On Saturday 12 July 2008. The badly injured student- Douglas Rojas Jimenez- died. He was technically dead since Thursday but "politically" kept alive by breathing machines. More students protests are...
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