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Mother knew best for daughter, and now they'll graduate together at HCC
As a mother, Howard Community College student Sonia Halboni believes she always has her children's best interests at heart, yet she can remember once when her peers didn't concur. When her daughter, Daliah, graduated from Marriotts Ridge High School two...
Tags: Conservation, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Palestine, Teaching and Learning
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If snack and soda sales are OK in schools, why not cigarettes? [Letter]
As a parent of a ninth-grader at Glenelg High School, I am saddened and flabbergasted that the PTA is taking such a hard-line stance against student health and, indirectly, academic performance. I was equally shocked by the soda and candy machines moved...Tags: PTA
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Worker in fatal construction site accident identified
Chicago TribuneA man working at a construction site on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston who died after he was struck by a beam that fell from six stories up this morning has been identified. The beam was knocked loose by a construction crane and struck...Tags: Labor Legislation, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace, Evanston, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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BMI measuring in schools proves weighty issue
Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...
Tags: Heart Disease, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colleges and Universities, Body Mass Index
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Chicago bike accident highlights the oft-brutal laws of physics, biology
Any attempt to make bicycling in Chicago easier and safer by using the law is welcome. That includes Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals last week to amend the city's bike ordinance to give cyclists more freedom to maneuver but also increase penalties on...
Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Agriculture, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Chicago
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Goretti students make prom promise
MembersĀ of St. Maria Goretti High School’s junior class presented the annual Prom Promise to the school community on April 19 at the school. The program is designed to provide a wake-up call about drinking and driving to the entire student body....
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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New partnership aimed to revamp Lake-Sumter State College TV station
LEESBURG — TV viewers should look out for a change on Lake-Sumter State College's public access television channel, the result of a new partnership between the college, the county and Hometown Health TV. The partnership comes about a year and a...
Tags: Television Industry, Satellite and Cable Service, Colleges and Universities, Bright House Networks, Education
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ACLU calls twerking suspensions "illegal and ill-advised"
The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Students, Teaching and Learning, Sex Crimes, American Civil Liberties Union
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Dippy Duck paddles into schools to teach water safety
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Dippy Duck wiggled and waved to hundreds of students at Cesar Chavez Elementary School on Wednesday as part of the Imperial Irrigation District’s water safety awareness campaign. The district’s “Stay Active, Play Safe,...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Oakland Mills unfairly singled out
I am writing to you to point out a particular bias that I detect in your newspaper. It seems that when alleged acts of violence occur in East Columbia, there is a need to include Oakland Mills High School either in the headline or within the article...
Tags: Ellicott City
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Annual Motorcycle Training Courses are Ready to Roll
Dry pavement in Alaska means motorcycles are back on the roads. Our state has the highest number of registered motorcyclists per capita in the nation. Governor Sean Parnell recently named the month of May “Motorcycle and Motor Scooter Awareness...
Tags: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Sean Parnell, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Bus traveled 18 mph when Pompano boy critically injured, say attorneys
The county bus which critically injured a boy after his hand became stuck in the door accelerated to 18 miles an hour and traveled 100 feet before the teen could no longer keep up running and dropped to the pavement, attorneys for the child's family...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Broward County, Justice System, Lawyers
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