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15 Dec 09

The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development
organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. We create interactive materials
that exploit the power of information technologies. Our primary goal in all
our work is digital equity — improving learning opportunities for all
students.
We produce a large amount of high-quality educational software that is offered free of charge. Almost all of our software is open-sourced so you can adapt it to your own needs or use it as the basis for your own software development efforts.

To learn more, please visit the Software Web site.

16 Apr 09

A Russian man who was being operated on for a suspected tumour ended up having a fir tree removed from one of his lungs.
It is believed Mr Sidorkin inhaled a seed, which then sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.