As you know the voters of California have approved the ban on gay marriage. California are not the only states to approve this Arizona, Arkansas and Florid have also approved the ban on gay marriage also. They will probaly take this up to the state supreme court and overturn the rule. What are your thou...
New Hampshire education officials unveiled a plan that calls for more rigorous state board exams modeled after AP tests to 10th graders, allowing them to skip the final two years of highschool. The new program is expected to guarantee higher competency in core subjects, and students would be ready...
At 10:40pm a man was walking through a park in Australia and saw a menacing man holding a gun to another man's head. So he ran to the police and they surrounded the park and arrested four men. They also seized some film equipment and a fake gun. Apparently they were making a film and didn't tell anyone. The...
This election broke...in some cases smashed...all sorts of election records and precedents...among others: * Highest turnout since 1908 * Obviously, the first African-American president * First Democratic Presidential candidate to win a majority since 1976 * First time Indiana and Virginia...
To fight the effects of hyperinflation Zimbabwe is releasing a $1 million bill. Zimbabwe is in a terrible state of affairs with an official inflation rate of 230 million percent per year. This new bill is worth 8 U.S. dollars and analysts say the inflation rate is actually in the billions. Meanwhile,...
China looks forward to Obama being president as a way to reduce America-China tensions that were created during the Bush administration. Obama had expressed earlier that he hoped the easing tensions would help expand economic ties. With China also gaining a new leader, there is no reason for bi...
Brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world and the government has now signalled its determination to try to reduce this grim total of around 45,000 people killed each year. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced a plan costing over $3bn (£1.5bn) to tackle the high lev...
Parliments in The Bahamas began a debate Monday on the government's bill to amend the country's Penal Code to allow Electronic Monitoring of convicts and persons on bail awaiting trial. While this will take away some of the privacy of the people, its said to be a revolutionary provision described a...
What's next for the Republican party? Do they need to rebuild their base? Redefine themselves? Just wait for the momentum to shift (and if so, how long will they have to wait)? Check out the county-by-county election results- they are, in some ways, more interesting than the state-by-states (use &q...
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some of you might have read, or heard of, or might be reading, or planning to read, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, which is about the best book I've read in the past five years. In any event, I just got this email from an EDHS grad who's presently attending Syracuse Unversity, wh...
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