25 days ago by JohnDemetriou

Some news in today from far away Thailand on an 18 year old man who stabbed a cab driver to death. Apparently his inspiration for the ‘bungled’ crime was the computer game ‘Grand Theft Auto’. The police investigator reports that the killer said that: “…he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real ...

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135 days ago by Charles Donovan

Beginning at midnight last night, Virginia Tech marked the shooting anniversary. The darkness was broken by the flickering of a white candle, lit at the stroke of midnight. Soft weeping and the solemn strains of "Taps" were all that broke the silence of more than a thousand people gathered around th ...

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136 days ago

It was only a short year ago that "shock jock" Don Imus chose to refer to the accomplished women playing in the NCAA Basketball Finals as "nappy-headed hoes," later billing the match-up for his listeners as the "jiggaboos" versus the "wannabes." Imus' disrespect came as little surprise. He had a lon ...

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138 days ago by admin

The Brazilian government has opened a £10 million condom factory in the Amazon, in the town of Xapuri, which will use latex extracted from the forests to make around 100 million condoms a year, The Guardian reports. The factory will let allow local rubber tappers profit from the rainforest without d ...

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140 days ago by Eilir

As Wednesday's anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting comes round, it's good to remember each young life lost and feel sympathy for the families that loved them. But one family who lost a son that day has grieved in seclusion, unable to reach out to other families--because their son, Seung Hui Ch ...

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140 days ago by Charles Donovan

Yesterday the families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shootings reached an $11 million settlement with the state according to lawyers familiar with the case. The deal was designed to prevent future lawsuits. Seung-Hui Cho, a mentally disturbed student, killed 32 victims and wounded several othe ...

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192 days ago by Betsy L. Angert

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The Whole Child copyright Š 2008 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org Each moment we live never was before and will never be again. And yet what we teach children in school is 2 + 2 = 4 and Paris is the capital of France. What we should be t ...

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196 days ago by Uris

Cullen, who is writing a book about the Columbine High killers, notes a sad . The first school shooter of the 1990s was an Asian boy who played the violin. . S SHOCKING DIATRIBE. Edge. Excerpts From the Tape Cho Sent to NBC . Angelo Lino .. Too young for strength, their words crushed my tender confi ...

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