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Chile
What the hell, planet earth! Chile was just slammed by a 7.2 aftershock, as inaugural ceremonies for right-wing billionaire president-elect Sebastián Piñera began in Valparaiso. Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27.
US: Mississippi
Mississippi’s Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring [...]
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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
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Official: FBI Probing Pa. School Webcam Spy Case
CBS
21 Feb 2010
PHILADELPHIA (CBS3/AP) — A Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students’ homes is under investigation by federal authorities, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.
Lawsuit: School gave kids laptops to spy on them at home
Raw Story/Daniel Tencer
19 Feb 2010
Students in a Philadelphia-area school district have launched a lawsuit accusing their schools of spying on them at home through webcams installed in laptop computers the district gave them.
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
Boing Boing
19 Feb 2010
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The [...]
Iran severs cultural ties with British Museum over Persian treasure
London Telegraph
The Cyrus Cylinder, which was acquired by the museum after being discovered in 1879, is regarded as the world’s first declaration of rights
British Museum officials were due to lend the 2,500-year-old artefact to Iran’s national museum last month, but announced they were holding on to it to do some more research.
The clay cylinder – [...]
Common sense absent at school
A shame schools seem to have lost the basics of common sense somewhere along the way.
As a kid, yeah, I wrote on my desk. Didn’t we all?
The punishment wasn’t getting arrested and being terrified out of my mind (and potentially hating school, the teachers, the law and anyone else I could blame). The punishment was [...]
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