American grad student dies in Iraq CNN | (CNN) -- An American graduate student who went to Iraq to observe ordinary citizens in a transitioning government was one of two Americans killed in a Sadr City bombing. | Nicole Suveges, a married political scientist from Illinois, was part of a program that embeds academics into military units t...
Students growing space-age tomatoes Canada Dot Com | Growing tomatoes in Estevan has entered the space age. | Grade 4 students at Spruce Ridge School were treated to a video conference call with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirst on Wednesday to discuss the tomatoes they're growing in their class. | The two tomato plants are part of a North ...
Live (or not) from MIT, it's TechTV The Boston Globe | Extracting spices from chili peppers, then adding sugar, milk, and liquid nitrogen. Labeling it Spice Cream. | Assembling and befriending a robot named Domo. | Folding a single piece of origami paper into a startlingly realistic samurai helmet beet...
Kid's Cache) Arab News | Molouk Y. Ba-Isa, Arab News | This robot can party | At the Tokyo Toy Show, Tiger Electronics and SEGA Toys wowed the crowds with the A.M.P. - Automated Music Personality (www.ampbot.com). This mobile robotic music companion is a state-of-the-art s...
Japan, U.S. to start teacher exchange Daily Yomiuri | Japan and the United States will launch a new teacher exchange program to boost educational and cultural exchanges between the two countries, sources said Saturday. | About 50 primary, middle and high schools teachers from each country are expected...
Green summer in Hong Kong The Star | THIDARAT Liamsomboon was just 15 when she began to develop an interest in cosmetics. At 16, she started signing up for different make-up courses offered by established cosmetic companies, hoping to pick up some techniques to achieve that celebrity ...
In review Syracuse | Contributing writer | The Talent Company has brought back "Disney's High School Musical" for another run, and you can see why. Under Chris Lightcap's direction, and with a big talented cast, the show gets a rollicking, skilled production that delig...
UK police arrest man in students' slaying CNN | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Police said Saturday they have arrested a man in connection with the brutal stabbing deaths of two French students in London this week. | Police arrested the 21-year-old in London around 3:40 a.m. (10:40 p.m. Friday ET), Lo...
Learning center teaches kids new languages Dayton Daily News Saturday, July 05, 2008 | MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County - As a college exchange student in Japan, Emily Stephen remembered how fluent her two Australian roommates were in Japanese. "They had (instruction) so many more years than I had," starting in e...
Progress in N. Korea may spur Iran to follow Buffalo News | MOSCOW - A shining glimmer of hope has appeared on the Korean Peninsula. On June 27, Pyongyang destroyed the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in Yongbyon in a sign of its commitment to stop making weapons-grade plutonium. | North Korea has done this after lengthy bargaining for removing it from the list of terrorism sponsors, giving it se...
'Got milk' scholarship toasts Bedford student's health Toledo Blade LAMBERTVILLE - Bedford High School senior Aloiya Earl took the idea that calcium-rich milk could help her recover more quickly from a bone injury and ran with it. | During her junior year running cross country in the fall of 2006, Miss Earl developed a bone tumor in her tibia. After undergoing surgery, Miss Earl decided drinking more milk would aid...
