Church set up as a haven for smokers - Telegraph
A group in Holland, responding to the Dutch ban on indoor smoking, has established a "church" whose primary sacrament is smoking.
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Assessing Student Learning: A WORK IN PROGRESS - Education - redOrbit
Mentions Ursinus and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. Cached version archived at Iterasi.
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Suburban kids are more messed up than inner-city ones (2005)
A 2005 study showed that the average suburban, well-off white teenager is more likely to engage in substance abuse or suffer from depression than kids living in poverty or in the inner city.
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Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of 'Doktor' Verboten - washingtonpost.com
BERLIN, March 13 -- Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you're a doctor could land you in jail.
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Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say - washingtonpost.com
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to c
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The dinosaurs of Washington, D.C. [6]
You probably thought this was a clip about politics, didn't you? Well, no. Scientists have found evidence that the capital area had a rich and diverse dinosaur (and prehistoric mammal) population during the Cretaceous.
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The dinosaurs of Washington, D.C.
You probably thought this was a clip about politics, didn't you? Well, no. Scientists have found evidence that the capital area had a rich and diverse dinosaur (and prehistoric mammal) population during the Cretaceous.
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Quaker teacher fired for inserting "nonviolently" into Calif. loyalty oath [7]
Call me naive, but I didn't even think loyalty oaths still existed in 2008. Does anyone really believe that they do any good? This story sounds like some kind of liberal hoax, but apparently it really happened.
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Quaker teacher fired for inserting "nonviolently" into Calif. loyalty oath
Call me naive, but I didn't even think loyalty oaths still existed in 2008. Does anyone really believe that they do any good? This story sounds like some kind of liberal hoax, but apparently it really happened.
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Doing it and doing it and doing it well -- for God
"The 30-Day Sex Challenge: Are You Up For It?" asks Paul Wirth, the pastor of Relevant Church in Tampa Bay, FL. Married couples are supposed to have sex daily for 30 days, while unmarried people are supposed to abstain completely.
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Gay 14-year-old shot to death by classmate
Interesting that this happens while there's also a debate going on over whether it should be OK to include positive portrayals of same-sex couples in educational materials aimed at this age group. I suppose there are those who'd say that a 14-year-old boy
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UK educator decries domination of education by management-oriented language
An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators," etc. This kind of thinking, he says, has gradually obscured any leg
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R.I.P. Tom Lantos (D-CA), Congress's only Holocaust survivor
Lantos will be familiar to anyone who's seen Spielberg's Holocaust documentary, "Last Days," as well as anyone who's followed human-rights debates in Congress over the past thirty years. His death (from esophageal cancer, at age 80) is a real loss.
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"Fogcatchers": a new source for potable water
In remote Chilean villages where fresh water is often scarce and contaminated, a simple new technology -- mesh sheets strung between posts -- captures condensation from coastal fog, providing an abundant and reliable source of cheap drinking water.
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Travelling by bus in Sweden? Beware of dwarves
One of the weirdest news stories I've read in some time. Apparently some criminal gangs are smuggling dwarves in duffel bags into the luggage compartment of long-haul buses, where they loot the other passengers' bags.
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Harvard's decision on financial aid puts other colleges in a tough spot
Harvard has pledged that no family making under about $180K will have to pay more than 10% of its income in tuition. This makes other college administrators very nervous, since they can't come close to duplicating that deal, especially without raising tui
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