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Top News - R2D2: A model for using technology in education

  • Some professors are currently pushing the edges of the risk continuum in this phase of the R2D2 model by using Twitter as a teaching tool. For example, students might be assigned to track the activities of a world-famous person who tweets.

Afghan LORD

  • the locals are 100 percent sure that foreign forces will leave the area sooner or later but the Taliban will be back.
15 Nov 09

The new 'Face' of the age-old Green Monster - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

  • people lose inhibitions on Facebook
  • people lose inhibitions on Facebook
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10 Nov 09

Scientology foe’s arrest raises issue of rights - Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

  • In cases like this, especially since 9/11, authorities often have a tough time drawing the line between a criminal act and the constitutional rights to free speech and to bear arms.
  • “Apparently, this church has a lengthy history of trying to suppress any negative commentary regarding their quasi-religious activities,”
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When did content trump learning? | The Thinking Stick

  • Off topic? Yes. Fun? Absolutely! Did we learn anything? More than I could have imagined!
06 Nov 09

Officials: 13 killed, including gunman, in Fort Hood shootings - CNN.com

  • A soldier who asked not to be identified told CNN that an e-mail went out to all base personnel instructing them not to speak to the media.
15 Oct 09

E-Waste Defined » Current Trends : Recycle Computer and E-waste Here – Electronic Recyclers International®

  • E-waste constitutes as much as 5% of the U.S. municipal
    solid waste stream and continues to grow 5 times faster than all other waste streams.

The WIP Contributors: E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump

  • In 2007, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans churned out more than 370 million units of “end of life” electronic junk, ranging from keyboards to monitors to cell phones. Less than 20 percent was recycled. The United Nations Environment Programme estimated in 2006 that the world generated about 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste annually—a rate that is accelerating as more developing countries seize onto digital technology.

PROPNOMICON: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times

  • everything is in the mail
  • Things went surprisingly smoothly, despite the Innsmouth-like, bug-eyed look of shock on the clerk's face when I plopped my boxes o' mail on the counter.
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14 Oct 09

The Associated Press: Republican shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials

  • the use of targets that appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves.
  • "That's our right," said Napolitano, president of the Southeast Broward Republican Club. "If we want to shoot at targets that look like that, we're going to go ahead and do that."
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Gazprom strikes preliminary gas deal with China - Yahoo! News

  • China and Russia signed a framework agreement Tuesday that could see a steady flow of natural gas to energy-hungry China from its resource-rich neighbor.


    It was one of numerous trade and military agreements signed during a state visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the countries overcome traditional mistrust to push ahead mutual economic interests.

  • Other deals included Chinese companies making investments in construction industry facilities in Russia, Zhukov said. "Naturally, the Chinese are interested in getting (ownership) stakes," he said without giving any details.
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Too Much weekly

  • America’s 100 biggest publicly traded corporations more than doubled what they spend to protect their CEOs. FedEx shelled out $595,875 to keep CEO Fred Smith safe and sound — at the same time the company was ending employer matches on employee 401(k) contributions. Counting his security perk, FedEx CEO Smith took home $44.5 million last year. One leading executive security firm, 360 Group International, is reporting a 50 percent hike in sales over the past 12 months. State-of-the-art home protection systems from firms like the 360 Group will typically include long-range infrared cameras, fence detectors, and motion sensors “that can detect someone lingering outside a fence for more than a few seconds.”
    • I guess they have reason to be concerned, given the pain and destruction to which they have contributed. There must be some very angry people out there. - on 2009-10-13
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