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High School Student Disarms Gunman… Gets Suspended?
A Florida high school student wrestled a loaded gun away from another teen on the bus ride home this week and was slapped with a suspension in return.
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Montreal Riot Cops Don't Mess Around
Hours after Quebec Premier Pauline Marois declared that student unrest is “behind us,” thousands of protesters took to the streets of Montreal to denounce a planned three-per-cent tuition fee hike. At least 10 arrests were made Tuesday as some protesters hurled snowballs and bottles at riot police.
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Head Painted Like a Skull
Makeup artist Lisa Berczel, aka Battledress, gives a nod to Gray’s Anatomy with this man’s head that is painted like a medical illustration of a skull. No prosthetics – only a bit of medical grade paper tape to close the eye and an brow blocking…
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Microsoft Backs School Privacy Bill Taking Aim at Google
Massachusetts lawmakers could soon consider a bill that would restrict commercial use of data gathered while children use computers at public schools. Its stated purpose is protecting privacy. An unnamed focus of the bill—backed by Microsoft—is Google.
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Norway teacher fired after children taste her blood
A Norwegian kindergarten teacher was fired this week after she brought a vial of her own blood to class and allowed children to touch and taste it, the head teacher of the kindergarten said on Friday.
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South Dakota to allow armed teachers in schools
The US state of South Dakota has enacted a law allowing school districts to arm teachers and other school staff.
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Old Earth, Young Minds: Evangelical Homeschoolers Embrace Evolution
More Christian parents are asking for mainstream science in their children's curricula. Will religious textbook companies deliver?
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School confiscates third-grader’s cupcakes topped with toy soldiers
In the latest incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in a school setting, officials at an elementary school in small-town Michigan impounded a third-grader boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing World War Two soldiers.
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Being bullied?
Nice headline lol
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Devoted New Orleans teacher vanishes without a trace
Terrilynn Monette, a teacher in New Orleans, disappeared on March 2. She was last seen at a bar celebrating her "Teacher of the Year" nomination in her district. Friends, family and law enforcement officials have been trying to track her down.
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Scientists excited about the latest "god" particle results
Scientists more certain that particle is Higgs boson -- Just in time for Albert Einstein's birthday Thursday, scientists delivered exciting news about how the universe works.
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How to Remember Pi to 15 Digits
One way to remember the first few digits of pi is to count the letters in the words of this phrase...
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5 Things It Turns Out You Were Right to Hate About School
For many of you, school was 12 or more years of teachers and administrators deciding what was best for you, dictating exactly how you spent every minute of every day -- the result being that you absolutely hated each and every one of those minutes. But as you reached adulthood, you probably came to the realization that it was all for the best. You were just a stupid kid, after all, and your elders did things a certain way for a reason.
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This looks fun
Damn college kids and their wacky ideas.
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Malala Yousafzai returns to school after assassination attempt a few months ago
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education in her country, on Tuesday defied her attackers by returning to a school in Britain where she underwent several surgeries.
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Court Backs Student In Textbook Copyright Case
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that textbooks and other goods made and sold abroad can be re-sold online and in discount stores without violating U.S. copyright law. The outcome was a huge relief to eBay, Costco and other businesses that trade in products made outside the U.S.
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Spring Break Is Big Business
Spring break has become—like nearly everything else US college students do—an expensive, highly structured event that someone is making money off of. In the past decade, the spring break trip-planning.
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5 Exceptional Student Tech Projects
Students in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — start school with hopes of someday creating groundbreaking projects. But many of these students aren't waiting for graduation; they're immediately using the knowledge they acquire to help change the world.
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How TV show could save women, babies, in Ghana
In Ghana, 4,000 women die during pregnancy every year, but a new TV series could be the difference between life and death.
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Most Web users don't read; they skim
Ian Everdell knows exactly where people's eyes generally go when browsing a web page, and how women act a little differently than men when it comes to reading online.
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