CNN:
Efren PeƱaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to bring education to poor children as an alternative to gang membership, has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year.
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NY Post:
Wayne Knowland graduated from a Bronx high school in June, and was given a standard 8-by-6-inch New York City Department of Education diploma. It's exactly like the diploma tens of thousands of other kids got -- except Wayne can't read his.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ā Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported (Read More)
Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an education system in decline and a weak economy.The author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded appeared on The Charlie Rose Show on Friday night to discuss President Obama's recent trip to As (Read More)
SF Gate:
Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll. The federal Department of Education's... Virginia Military Institute - Virginia - Military - Unit (Read More)
SF Gate:
Investors are heading toward the final month of the year with more questions about the economy than they had just a few weeks ago. The uncertainty, which follows some downbeat reports on housing and employment, will likely mean choppy trading, especially as... Business - Investing - Commodities and Futures - Day Tra (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Blamestorming spreads like the plague: It's a typical experience in a large organization: a project has gone bad, and everybody involved looks to find ways to shift responsibility. But that practice is Ā almost certainly self-defeating, according to a paper entitled, "Blame contagion: The automatic transm (Read More)
Engadget:
Not kosher with getting a handset tailor made for DJing? How's about transforming your existing iPhone into that very device when the mood strikes you? Hailed as the first true DJ MP3 iPhone / iPod touch app in the world, Amidio's $19.99 Touch DJ program (available now) enables users to independently manipulate two MP3 or M (Read More)
Gawker:
Why would newspaper circulation rates going up be an issue to anybody? That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. The AP just hit the wire with a pretty great story on this. For example, the charmers at my hometown paper, the Las Vegas Review Journal, saw an increase in circulation this ye (Read More)
economictimes.indiatimes.com:
In a conversation with ET Intelligence Group, BPCL chairman and managing director Ashok Sinha discusses the company's learning from the ā08 crisis and how is he is preparing the organisation for the future. (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | Queensland:
THE Queensland Government has defended paying $440,000 and more in salaries to Queensland Education bureaucrats at the same time it had a bitter pay dispute with teachers. (Read More)