Cumbria flooding prompts bridge safety checks
News | www.independent.co.uk | 2 hours 29 minutes ago
An urgent safety review of Cumbria's 1,800 bridges was under way today with emergency services warning one bridge could collapse at any time and 50mph winds forecast.
The Giving Chain (Forbes)
News | www.forbes.com | 5 hours 40 minutes ago
A year later, after Jacinto and her fellow women have discussed business skills, domestic violence and women's rights, Jacinto looks into the mirror again. This time she brings new eyes to the task, a new recognition of her strengths and aspirations. "Now I see someone with a future.
Ryan Mallett, Jeremiah Masoli, Shane Vereen and Deunta Williams Announced as Week Twelve Nominees
Press Release | www.zibb.com | 57 minutes ago
Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the twelfth week of college football action, and AT&T* is relying on fans to determine who rules the gridiron. Based on outstanding performances over the weekend, University of Arkansas quarterback
Is data overload killing off human initiative?
News | www.theregister.co.uk | 7 hours 50 minutes ago
Time to add a delete button to the internetBook Review Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age is one of those high premise pseudo-techy works that appeals to the chattering classes – not least because it beguiles them with a false sense of "doing
5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping
News | www.boston.com | 11 hours 30 minutes ago
Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.
Teens in American U. program learn about law via moot court
News | www.washingtonpost.com | 11 hours 52 minutes ago
Eboni Stewart, 15, thought her school's constitutional law class sounded "kind of boring," but she needed an elective. A few months into it, however, she's considering becoming a lawyer.
Inside Broken Britain
News | www.guardian.co.uk | 16 hours 42 minutes ago
Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool where he grew up to report on a story of deprivation and hope
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/22/liverpool-deprivation-broken-britain
People: Green Dot Founder Reported Leaving Changing Roles
Blog | scholasticadministrator.typepad.com | 19 hours 52 minutes ago
Kris Krüg/Flickr There was little indication last week when he was in DC and NYC that Steve Barr was going to be leaving Green Dot, the organization he founded. But California public radio station KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez is now reporting that Barr is stepping down [as chairman]. For months there
National Parent Forum :: EducationPages.net :: Education news & job vacancies:
News | www.educationpages.net | Nov 21, 2009
Forum set up to give parents a greater voice meets for the first time. Read full article from the original source.
Blog U.: PLAGIARISM, HIGH AND LOW - University Diaries - Inside Higher Ed
Blog | www.insidehighered.com | Nov 21, 2009
Two recent instances of professorial plagiarism - New Zealand novelist Witi Ihimaera and, allegedly, Ohio State University mathematician Azita Manouchehri - have UD thinking once more about this odd and endless practice of stealing other people's words and work.Students, professors, journalists,
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_diaries/plagiarism_high_and_low
