In case you havent heard... they cancelled the greatest show on tv...for 30 Rock When the Greendale Glee Club is unexpectedly sidelined, the school's effervescent choir director Cory Radison sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in. Skeptical at first, they eventually fall under h... Read more...
It took years for advocates of medical marijuana to sell New Jersey lawmakers on the idea of allowing certain patients to legally use pot. Some advocates are now finding that an even bigger task may be persuading towns to approve places for them to do business. Eight months after being selected ... Read more...
The failure of the market place view of education should be evident to everyone. In a little publicized announcement the College Board said that SAT scores fell across the nation. The average writing, reading and math scores all dropped. Only 43% of all test takers achieved a score that indicated th... Read more...
The world's largest supporter of AIDS programs has made an ominous announcement: Because of the global financial crisis, it is well short of its fundraising goals. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria pays for more than half of the world's HIV medicine, and supports hun... Read more...
As school districts across the nation have scaled back instructional hours and moved to four-day weeks to balance their budgets, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is forging ahead with his push for a longer school day and year. And, though his plan is stirring controversy on many fronts, if implemented wel... Read more...
What can you buy with $13 million? If you're Coca-Cola, you can buy enough influence with the National Parks Service to cancel plans to make the Grand Canyon more environmentally friendly. Plastic water bottles are the biggest single source of garbage in America's most iconic national park. ... Read more...
At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, we finally recaptured that lost hour of sleep from last March as we marked the end of daylight saving time. And for the 47 million Americans who are sleep deprived, that extra hour is a chance to literally make up for lost time. "This is one of those weekends we should r... Read more...
Many startups and app developers today are needlessly breaking laws and pulling in too much data, which will send them head-first into a battle with the Federal Trade Commission. "We're seeing in our lab apps pulling in data things that are wholly unrelated to functionality," said David Vlad... Read more...
The Dutch government is to “basically [...] exclude” U.S. cloud providers from government IT contracts amid concerns of the reach of the Patriot Act in Europe. To prevent sensitive citizen data from being compromised by U.S. authorities, the move to bar U.S. companies from providing cloud-bas... Read more...