Three years ago, Heather Vogell, an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, sat down with a data analyst to crunch some numbers. She had just received the latest crop of scores for the CRCT, a state standardized test. Curiously, Vogell noted, several schools statewide had ch... Read more...
Time is money, and in the case of Kenyan marathoner Nicholas Manza Kamakaya, one second cost him $27,000. At the Gold Coast Marathon in Queensland, Australia, Kamakaya won his first marathon, finishing in 2:10:01, earning him $10,000. The marathon offered a $27,000 bonus for a time of 2:10 or u... Read more...
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15/07/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health,
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I was visiting my nephews, again. Within seconds of seeing me fiddle with my iPhone, my older nephew, Jack, who is 8, asked me, again, if my iPhone had any videogames on it. "Uh, no, sorry Jack," was my reply, letting a white lie skip through my teeth. I knew his mother and father might b... Read more...
A charter school that opened this year with high expectations and wealthy, powerful backers scored at the bottom of all schools in all of Northeast Florida in School Grade score. KIPP Impact Middle, a college preparatory school, earned an F in its opening year. "We're disappointed," Principal Ro... Read more...
Christine Lagarde can count on at least one thing Wednesday during her first news conference as chief of the International Monetary Fund: few softball questions. The former French finance minister is under pressure on many fronts. Lagarde must convince the developing world that her IMF will be a ... Read more...
Patricia A. Ackerman - Executive Director of the Chalkdust Education Foundation "Can you hear me, now?" was a popular query in a cell phone ad a few years back. The caller was seeking confirmation that two-way communication was occurring. By inference, and assuming no language barrier or audi... Read more...
You're eating healthier than ever, but your muscles feel flabby, your energy is sapped and your jeans feel increasingly snug, particularly in the belly, hips and rear. The sad truth: Metabolic rate (the number of calories we burn in a day) plummets as we age, decreasing about 1 percent each year ... Read more...
For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, but the cells live on to form new tissue. Developing this nanofiber sphere as a c... Read more...
…He was a dark, grim man wit’ jet black hair wit’ a patch o’ gray in the front o’ it; he always wore a buzz cut. He had dark, beautiful, rich skin with these piercin’ hazel eyes. Lookin’ into his eyes, you can see there was so much pain in his soul. He had a scar down his face throug... Read more...