Five-year-old children facing school sinbins over bad behaviour

"Unruly children as young as five face being taught in "education sin bins" under Government plans to stop pupils becoming out of control. Increasing numbers of primary pupils will be temporarily removed from normal classes and sent to special units to tackle bad...

Scouting Micro Social Networks

"Social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, have reinvented the way we communicate with each other, gather information and determine "friend" status. In the last three years, the major social networks have taken their place among the top Internet destinations, displacing...

What to tell your kids about being ugly

"1. It doesn’t matter what you wear An ugly person in nice clothes looks like spray-painted dry rot, you don’t hide anything, you just look like you are trying to, the ugliness being accentuated by the niceness of your wardrobe. People will be less likely to approach...

British films imitate lousy US templates, says director

"The screenwriter and film director Terence Davies has launched an impassioned broadside against his fellow British filmmakers and stars. "

Crystal skulls 'are modern fakes'

"Two of the best known crystal skulls - artefacts once thought to be the work of ancient American civilisations - are modern fakes, a scientific study shows.They are at the centre of the story for the latest Indiana Jones film.But experts say examples held at the British...

5 less-discussed reasons for Hillary’s failure

"1. She got typecast The moron’s idea of “understanding” something is to pigeonhole it, file it in with things from the past that it may resemble. Morons don’t like to look too closely at stuff, knowing that details serve only to confuse, not to enlighten....

Finding Hope in Hip-Hop

" I believe in hip-hop. And being a white girl born and raised in the whitest conditions, it surprises me that I've come to this belief — especially since I used to hate this music. My husband, Adam, would try to play it in his car while we were dating, and I hated it so...

South Africans take out rage on immigrants

"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...

10 Reasons The Crystal Skull will probably suck

"The audience is oldThe target-audience has long lost interest in mainstream Hollywood with it’s beautiful skinny young people. Mostly they are divorced men picking up easy crotch on Craigslist, spending their disposable income on Jack Daniels and Viagra. The less jaded...

Christie Prody Suffered 2 Broken Legs, But Was Cited For Being A Pedestrian O...

"O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, who had been hospitalized in February after a fall, was back in the hospital, this time with two broken legs and other serious injuries, CBS4 in Miami reported."

7 Life lessons from Die Hard

"1. Never be intimidated, no matter how impossible the oddsThere is always away out, you just have to be determined to get out of your present situation, and you will if you don’t panic every time some German with a gun and a few henchmen show up in your life."

GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi

"In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of...

Report: GE getting out of appliance business

"General Electric Co. plans to auction off its appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.GE has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to run an auction for the appliance division, according to the newspaper, which quoted unidentified sources. The sale could...

Why backward people stay backward

"There are people in this world to which nothing ever “occurs”, no figurative light-bulb comes on as they wrestle with a problem because they don’t ever bother trying to figure things out"