Category Archives: Education

Veterans still waiting for GI Bill payments

By doris | Published: December 23, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school last fall under the new GI Bill, leaving the veterans panicked that they’ll be unable to return to class in January. Veterans Affairs Department officials promise to get them back [...]

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School helps students fend off bad times

By doris | Published: November 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) — Principal Sherrie Gahn said she was shocked when she first came to Whitney Elementary School seven years ago. “The kids were eating ketchup packets,” Gahn said. “I said to one of my teachers, ‘What on Earth are they doing?’ and she said, ‘That’s their dinner.’ “ [...]

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NASA’s prototype rocket set for Tuesday launch

By doris | Published: October 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A prototype version of NASA’s newest rocket is ready for its planned Tuesday launch, mission managers said Friday. NASA is set to test the design of its next-generation rocket, Ares I, during a demonstration liftoff called Ares I-X. The launch, slated for 8 a.m. ET on Oct. [...]

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‘Mrs. Brady’ turns ‘cybermom’ to help seniors tackle tech

By doris | Published: October 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Now, actress Florence Henderson, otherwise known as Mrs. Brady, has a new mission: Helping older adults learn to use technology. Her new business, Floh Club, is a “telephone-based technical support service” focusing on people who didn’t grow up with computers — especially grandparents who want to stay in touch with family [...]

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‘Digital dirt’ can haunt your job search

By doris | Published: October 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CareerBuilder) — Just like Vegas, what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet. How that affects your job search is up to you. Gone are the days when all you were concerned with was whether or not your résumé and cover letter were error-free. Now, you’ve got bigger things to [...]

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Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth

By doris | Published: September 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com His latest concept — to launch a camera into near-space using a weather balloon, a cell phone, hand warmers and a drink cooler — fell flat when he sent out an e-mail message to dozens of his classmates, asking for help. Unfazed, Yeh managed to find one friend willing to chip [...]

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Enforcing bedtimes improves kids’ health

By doris | Published: September 15, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com “It was an agitated frenzy until they would pass out,” Genevieve Skory recalled. The weary parents broke up fights between their bickering children. The next morning, the house would be chaotic again. “I don’t think it’s good for kids to stay up until they fall asleep — that’s three hours later than [...]

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Segway inventor takes aim at thirst with Slingshot

By doris | Published: September 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Water is the most abundant resource on the planet, yet less than one percent of the Earth’s freshwater supply is readily available to drink, according to the World Health Organization. Lack of accessible or clean drinking water, exacerbated by drought, is crippling communities in many developing countries. “In your lifetime, my [...]

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The future of libraries, with or without books

By doris | Published: September 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. “Loud rooms” that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians. And that’s just the [...]

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Company offers college textbooks for free

By doris | Published: August 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com After a sort of beta earlier this year, Flat World was set to announce Thursday that more than 40,000 college students at 400 colleges will use their digital, DRM-free textbooks fall semester, up from 1,000 in 30 colleges in the spring. Digital textbooks remain a nascent business and a tough market [...]

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Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang

By doris | Published: August 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It may not be possible to travel back in time, but seeing stars and galaxies as they looked millions or even billions of years ago is no problem thanks to telescopes, the closest thing we have to time machines. Now, astronomers are holding their breath to see what they’ll [...]

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Buzz Aldrin to accept NASA’s Emmy award

By doris | Published: August 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is taking a trip to the Emmys. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that Aldrin, part of the 1969 moon mission, will accept the Philo T. Farnsworth Award on NASA’s behalf at the Emmy engineering awards on Saturday. The award, [...]

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Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Since President Obama announced his pick for the nation’s Top Doc, Internet message boards have been atwitter with the observation that Dr. Regina Benjamin is fat. Critics seem to believe it’s ironic that the nation’s top doctor would be overweight, and it’s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that [...]

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First batch of swine flu vaccine produced

By doris | Published: June 14, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com BASEL, Switzerland – Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG said Friday it has successfully produced a first batch of swine flu vaccine weeks ahead of expectations. The vaccine was made in cells, rather than grown in eggs as is usually the case with vaccines, the company said. The announcement comes a day [...]

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Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class

By doris | Published: June 12, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn’t figure out the cause of Jessica’s abdominal distress. Then one day in January, Terry, 18, figured it out on her own. In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue [...]

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Restoring the Earth helps veterans heal

By doris | Published: May 20, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Like many other vets returning from deployment overseas, Grisham, a medical corpsman, came back from Iraq seared by memories of war and unsure about how to re-enter civilian life. But a program in Washington state helps military veterans learn marketable job skills and make sense of their experiences in combat. Program [...]

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3.5M Kids Under 5 On Verge Of Going Hungry

By doris | Published: May 10, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/ AP) An estimated 3.5 million children under the age of 5 are at risk of hunger in the United States, according to a look at government numbers by an anti-hunger group. That’s more than 17 percent of children who could suffer cognitive and developmental damage if they are not [...]

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Mystery Donors Shower Schools With $45M

By doris | Published: April 18, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) A mystery is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million, and the schools had to promise not to try to find out the giver’s identity. One school went so far as to [...]

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Teen “Sexting” Worries Parents, Schools

By doris | Published: February 5, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they’re naughty. Teenagers’ habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically – often called “sexting” if it’s done by cell phone – has parents and school administrators worried. Some prosecutors have begun charging [...]

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First Embryonic Stem Cell Study Approved by U.S.

By doris | Published: January 25, 2009

Full Story At nationalgeographic.com A U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world’s first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells—a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury. The company gained federal permission this week to inject eight to ten patients with cells derived from embryonic cells, said [...]

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