This is an excellent summary of how English is getting more and more spoken as a lingua franca, in spite of anti-colonialist pride.

Why we curse.

By analysing a version of the gene in Neanderthals, scientists found that they also have sported fiery locks.

Efforts to preserve the Gullah-Geechee creole language and culture in the southeastern United States.

Apple's day has finally come

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Teachers and Professors are afraid of violating copyright, "teachers use less effective teaching techniques, teach and transmit erroneous copyright information, fail to share innovative instructional approaches, and do not take advantage of new digital platforms."

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The software company reportedly bested Google in a bidding war, so Microsoft officials likely view the deal as a significant victory in the ir battle for IT supremacy.

Eleven people and an international organization join the distinguished ranks of Nobel Laureates now numbering 797. The scope of the awarded work ranged from the sub-atomic observations made by the 2007 Physics Laureates to the global risks that the 2007 Peace Laureates are monitoring and publicizing. Find out more about the 2007 Nobel Laureates before they come to Oslo and Stockholm in December to receive the Nobel Prize

Nick Chiles, an education reporter and author, who believe these novels glamorize black criminals.

This 2007 study "has documented 73 cases where children 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to death in prison.

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Happy Halloween Enjoyment - 11 year olds and Fishnets, Eye Candy, History, and Songs.

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Welcome to the new way of teaching kids music. As music classes are squeezed out of many schools in order to permit more time on math and reading, teachers are looking for new ways to integrate music into classrooms.

Google's Ad Success Has Lessons For Television from the ads-are-content dept Patri Friedman points to a fascinating post by a Yahoo employee (speaking only for himself) speculating on the reasons Google is clobbering Yahoo in the search ad market. In a nutshell, Google was a lot quicker to figure out the benefits of ranking ads by ad quality rather than simply auctioning off the top slot to the highest bidder.

"Jail Library - These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.

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The Killer Whale is on the Eagle side and Salmon is the Raven side, so they can get married.

Norman Jackson - Tlingit Carver Ketchikan Alaska is of the Tongass Tlingit of southeast Alaska and was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. His lineage is from his mother who is of the Tongass Tlingit Kaats Hit Bear House of southeast Alaska. His father is Kaagwaantaan Tlingit of Klukwan, Alaska.

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The Killer Whale is on the Eagle side and Salmon is the Raven side, so they can get married.

Norman Jackson - Tlingit Carver Ketchikan Alaska is of the Tongass Tlingit of southeast Alaska and was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. His lineage is from his mother who is of the Tongass Tlingit Kaats Hit Bear House of southeast Alaska. His father is Kaagwaantaan Tlingit of Klukwan, Alaska.

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2008 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference (PETE&C).

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e-book acceptance his surprisingly positive experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. A book is, foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform agnostic.

Stop Big Media Last Chance 9am Rally and Public Hearing on Localism at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC!

And where was the concomitant record industry investment in Napster? Oh yeah, that's right, Thomas Middelhoff, head of Bertelsmann, invested in the service, saw it as the industry's future, and his record company brethren SUED HIM FOR AIDING AND ABETTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Where is the investment in Limewire? Where is the investment in anywhere the public HAS SHOWN AN INTEREST IN GOING! Stop living in the field of dreams, believing if you build it they will come, didn't work with PressPlay. Turns out the record industry's got no clue what people want. Just like Microsoft doesn't understand social networking. So they went where the FOOD WAS! Remember that old Sam Kinison routine? You shouldn't send FOOD to Africans, but SUITCASES! So they can go where the food is!

The music business has seen sales drop for seven straight years. Next year will be worse. That's the growing consensus we hear from people in the industry, who are assuming that physical sales will plummet even faster in 2008 then they have to date.

'Pete Seeger: The Power of Song' opens Saturday. From the time I was little boy I thought Pete Seeger was the most important man in America., now sixty years later,I know he is. Cordley Coit

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Spurred by the growing crisis in child obesity, the nation’s schools have made “considerable improvements” in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey that found that more schools require physical education and fewer sell French fries.

The survey, which is conducted every six years, shows that more schools than six years ago offer salads and vegetables and that fewer permit bake sales. More states and school districts insist that elementary schools schedule recess and that physical education teachers have at least undergraduate training. More states have enacted policies to prohibit smoking at school and to require courses on pregnancy prevention.

Perhaps most striking, 30 percent of school districts have banned junk food from school vending machines, up from 4 percent in 2000. Schools offering fried potatoes in their cafeterias declined, to 19 percent from 40 percent.

The results of the survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elicited cheers on Friday from public health and education officials, as well as warnings against complacency.

The epic battle of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert will now be heard _ and sung _ in Chinese.

Cameron Mackintosh will co-present Chinese-language versions of classic Broadway and West End musicals such as 'Les Miserables' and 'The Phantom of the Opera' in China beginning next year, the British producer announced Monday in Beijing.

The productions are part of an agreement with the Chinese performing arts agency China Arts and Entertainment Group, which is affiliated with China's Ministry of Culture. Read more