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High school gymnastics Athlete of the Year Kristen Harabedian
Features video of Kristen demonstrating how to use the balance beam
Russert still tops at Newseum - Patrick Gavin
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The Newseum’s tribute to Russert, which opens Friday, is a replica of his office
— and it sits almost exactly above the studio where his longtime competitor
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The Newseum says it hopes the exhibit symbolizes the important themes of
Russert’s life: “family, faith, sports, politics and journalism.”
Poynter Online - Al's Morning Meeting
High schools nationwide are trying to figure out how to stop kids from promiscuously dancing on the dance floor.
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High schools nationwide are trying to figure out how to stop kids from
promiscuously dancing on the dance floor.
Poynter Online - Al's Morning Meeting
FarmVille, an online game that lets users manage virtual farms, is the fastest-growing Facebook application in the history of the social networking site. And that is saying a lot. It is so popular that educators say it's becoming a classroom distraction because kids won't stop playing it.
Who would think that a game where you can buy your own pigs and watch your crops grow would have an attraction for kids in an online world? Is this some kind of "back to the basics" thing in a recession?
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FarmVille, an online game that lets users manage virtual farms, is the
fastest-growing Facebook application in the history of the social networking
site. And that is saying a lot. It is so popular that educators say it's
becoming a classroom distraction because kids won't stop playing it.
Who
would think that a game where you can buy your own pigs and watch your crops
grow would have an attraction for kids in an online world? Is this some
kind of "back to the basics" thing in a recession?
Op-Ed Columnist - Genius - The Modern View - NYTimes.com
The latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical view of the world. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it’s deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft
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The latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical
view of the world. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely
accomplished is not a divine spark. It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of
success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it’s deliberate practice. Top
performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their
craft.
Fake rebels are pitiful, not shocking - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com
How music created change in the Fifties and Sixties, but fails to today.
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With Chuck Berry, Little Richard and other icons from rock's first
generation, he pioneered an incendiary idea: that music could be more than a
medium of entertainment, that it could and should also be a tool of cultural
revolution. It was not, after all, just music that moved town fathers to ban
rock concerts and angry men with sledgehammers to smash jukeboxes containing
rock records.No, it was what that music meant, the notion of white kids mixing with
black ones, of status quo under siege, of girls having sex before they were 30.More, it was the realization that the staid old lives the town fathers lived
and the staid old things those angry men believed were about to be washed away
upon a tide of change.That big bang still echoes; nearly 60 years later, we are still wed to the
idea that the music that has meaning is the music that causes unease.But it takes more to do that now than it did in Elvis' day.
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But what else can we expect in an era that accepts ungraciousness and
ungratefulness as synonyms for courage and rebellion?This is not, let me add, an argument about sound or style, but substance.
Revolution is not a stunt.And I submit that we actually have no shortage of conditions that still
require rebellion. What we lack is the will to act. That's sad. Once upon a
time, music was brave.Now we have only echoes of the bang.
Grieving family acts to aid young drivers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/16/2009
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Although his graduation portrait hangs at Shawnee High School, Ryan Fitzpatrick
never got to walk down the commencement aisle with his fellow seniors. He never
made it to the prom. He will never play college football
Supreme Court refuses to hear Redskins' naming case - washingtonpost.com
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a lawsuit on behalf of Native American activists who claimed that the Washington Redskins' team name is so offensive that it does not deserve trademark protection.
The court without comment refused to get involved in the long-running dispute. The decision essentially lets stand a lower court ruling that the activists waited too long to bring the challenge.
PhillyBurbs.com: CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months
Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, say startling federal estimates released Thursday
"I am expecting all of these numbers, unfortunately, to continue to rise," said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have a long flu season ahead of us."
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Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly
4,000, including 540 children, say startling federal estimates released Thursday
PhillyBurbs.com: CDC now says 4,000 swine flu deaths in US
Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu _ about four times the estimate they've been using.
reality
Nobody wants to get sick. But for some teenagers, it seems that catching the flu bug that’s sweeping the
The Youth Citizen Journalist Network
The Youth Citizen-Journalist Network (YCJN) is a social media video and text-reporting educational project sponsored by Instituto de Formación Democrática (the Institute of Democratic Education).\nHigh school and middle school students are invited to send their informed opinions about democracy, voting, national and local issues that affect them and and their families and candidates for public office to: newsroom@ycjn.us . Details are available on this website.\n\n
Celebrating the memoir - fiction's day is done? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/03/2009
The emphasis on memoir is so strong that autobiography, history and fiction may be endangered. And the reasons for memoir's popularity may rest in our very nature as Americans: In a land where the majority rules, individuality is
exalted and memoir is more befitting the American ideal of resourcefulness.
Jonathan Storm: In PBS series on the 1930s, perspectives on hard times | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/25/2009
When times are tough, ingenuity's importance increases, as PBS's American Experience demonstrates both on the screen and in its operations, conserving resources as it stays relevant with a new, five-part series about the '30s.
The 1930s, premiering tomorrow and running five consecutive Mondays at 9 p.m. on WHYY TV12, is fascinating in the way it draws parallels to these tough times, both the causes and the potential solutions
School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix | Technology News | Comcast.net
INDIANAPOLIS — Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Two sophomore girls
have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually
suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
This page examines three different news radio formats: talk show hosts, headline newscasts, and NPR. Although these formats are all on the radio they cover the news very differently.
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The presidential election provided ready fodder for the nation’s talk show
hosts, who made full use of the opportunity –to the exclusion of many other
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e headline newscasts of ABC and CBS, however, took the opposite approach. The
amount of the newshole that they devoted in 2008 to the election was less
than that of the talk show hosts and the media in general. Economic and business
news loomed larger for the network headline services.National Public Radio’s political coverage was a little closer to the average
of the media at large in terms of newshole. NPR listeners heard less about the
economy and business, crime, health and disasters, than they did from the radio
headline services. But the public radio outlet provided almost twice as much
international coverage as the media over all - 3 more annotations...
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