Being Human
I swear, that's the ultimate goal, for teachers to get paid without having to teach kids at school. Teaching is a great profession, it's just that it's really hard to do when there are kids around. [With all due respect to the many frustrated teachers trying to actually teach, despite system and society's children both.]
A new study showed that fecal bacteria could be found on a majority of shopping carts. [Courtesy of Brandon Dutcher tweet. Uh.. urk.. thanks...]
So how does brokeass, dumbass, redneck Texas stack up against progressive unionized Wisconsin?... To recap: white students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin. In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. ...
Chitwood said that two of his officers, Eric Colella and Ryan Wiseley, were eating lunch at Verona's Pizza, 8917 West Chester Pike when they saw Galiatsatos walk in carrying a bag. Galiatsatos went into the restroom and left a short time later, without the bag, Chitwood said. The bag was found in the restroom ceiling and contained three white mice, Chitwood said. The officers also watched Galiatsatos walk in and quickly out of Uncle Nick's Pizza, at 9000 West Chester Pike. A bag of containing six mice was found in a trash can in the pizzeria,
They'll be no more milk from mommy for customers of The Icecreamists, after local government officials confiscated ice cream made from human breast milk. The action came on Monday, when representatives of Westminster City Council removed the offending dairy products from the central London store. The infamous "Baby Gaga" ice cream was launched last week amid a flurry of press attention.
Nearly all the victims, most of whom are female and younger than 19, reported eating raw cookie dough in the days before the onset of symptoms. Health officials still do not know how E. coli 0157, a bacterium that lives in cattle intestines, ended up in a product that seems so unlikely to contain it.
Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are "categorically distinct" from other efforts to combat illegal drugs.... What was missing, Souter wrote, "was any indication of danger to the students from the power of the drugs or their quantity, and any reason to suppose that Savana was carrying pills in her underwear."... Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. "Judges are not qualified to second-guess the best manner for maintaining quiet and order in the school environment..." [Oh, go back to your hairy Coke, Clarence!]
A man who said he left a ruthless street gang in Central America and later won praise for his anti-gang work in Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday by authorities who allege he conspired to kill a rival even as he spoke out against gang life.
Among the legion of today's most popular diet regimens, the Mediterranean diet has become a poster child for healthy eating, garnering praise from nutrition experts and home gourmets alike. But while few would dispute the health benefits of such a diet, what is it about the Mediterranean menu that makes it so healthy?
Earlier this week, ABCnews.com published an article outlining the top frustrations doctors experience with their patients. But there was another side to the coin. Our audience shot back with comments about the bad habits doctors had that they felt often led to wasted time and wasted money.
If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired Sunday.... [wearing a sign that said "SHOOT US!"...]
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings. [TOO LITTLE TOO LATE if that's what she wants. Not to compare the organizations, but if a guy had quit the KKK only for those reasons, would you expect everybody to just drop the matter?]
Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household... anyone over 18 years of age who refuses to answer "any of the questions" on the census can be fined up to $5,000.... [IMPEACH! REPEAL! REVOLT!]
a technique known as rapid prototyping, or three-dimensional printing, could enable tissue engineering that replicates the porous and hierarchical structures of natural tissues at an unprecedented level.
The new strain of H1N1 flu is causing "something different" to happen in the United States this year -- perhaps an extended year-round flu season that disproportionately hits young people
By a 5-4 vote, the nation's highest court refused to create a new legal right for post-conviction DNA testing, which has exonerated at least 232 people nationwide years after they had been found guilty.... The U.S. Justice Department supported Alaska and said a right to post-conviction DNA testing would "open the floodgates" for lawsuits seeking new tests for old evidence. It said the issue was best left to the states and Congress to adopt their own procedures.... [Oh, my, yes, we wouldn't want a "flood" of innocent people released, after working so hard to convict them. REVOLT!]
Bad practices that many students believe will make them become expert engineers are the ire of managers who hire recent engineering graduates.
Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report.
Medically unexplained (or 'functional') symptoms (MUS) are physical symptoms that prompt the sufferer to seek healthcare but remain unexplained after an appropriate medical evaluation... developmental factors may play a role in some cases.... Maternal perception of a threatening environment may be transmitted to the fetus when hormones cross the placenta and affect fetal physiology, effectively 'programming' the fetal stress response system and associated behaviors toward enhanced vigilance. After birth, intense stress responses in the individual may result in similar vulnerability, which may be unmasked by subsequent stressors....
A new study contradicts the conventional wisdom that living near a fast food outlet increases weight in children and that living near supermarkets, which sell fresh fruit and vegetables as well as so called junk food, lowers weight.
Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.
A startling number of children are falling through the cracks at one Chicago Public School. More than half of the kids didn't even pass the eighth grade.
all of the girls said Factor made them feel uncomfortable by touching their legs, backs, buttocks, shoulders, arms, hands or knees. One girl said the situation eventually led her to leave Hale and TPS altogether. She said Factor called her "babe," moved his chair close to hers and put his hands between her legs while helping her in class. She said she repeatedly told him to stop, took her concerns to the school's principal, dean, attendance dean and a coach and tried in vain to be transferred out of Factor's class. "They told me that they could not do anything and that it was my word against his," she wrote. "When I went back to class, Mr. Factor said to me, quietly in my ear, 'Thanks for telling on me.' During the semester I turned in a paper to be graded. I asked, 'Can you grade my paper now?' He said, 'I'll grade it if you stop telling on me....' "
after suffering decades of pain he found it had never actually healed... "Everyone tells me that having a broken leg for nearly 30 years is unheard of...." He will now have a metal Ilazarov frame fitted around his leg and foot to stretch the bone 1mm each day for seven to nine months. Then he will be in plaster for a further three months.
Wheat farmers in Oklahoma say the crop has taken a beating -- but is showing some positive signs.
For seven long years in Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the four Central Asian friends gazed longingly at the azure sea from their cells. They were never allowed through the razor wire to paddle in the water. Now, suddenly set free in Bermuda.... "Our feelings are incredible. We did not think we were going to be this happy."
A move by the IRS to tax the use of company-issued mobile phones is spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea.
Reiki therapy.... invisible energy fields... acupuncture.... meditation, yoga and massage... herbal supplements... Mainstream medicine and prescription drugs have problems, too.... homeopathy, chiropractic, and native or traditional healing methods.... "We bristle when people talk about us as if we're just fringe...." [That list is such a mish-mash of reality and fantasy!]
Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare? That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a staggering $24.3 billion budget deficit. County welfare directors are "in shock" at the very idea... [boo+hoo]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would like to see such "radical" proposals....
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