In South Korean classrooms, digital textbook revolution meets some resistance |
- In South Korean classrooms, digital textbook revolution meets some resistance
- Stoke 1-1 Man City
- San Francisco Fights Erosion as Coastal Cities Watch Closely
- Psychologist Alerted Penn State’s Police to Sandusky in 1998, NBC Says
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- Russian Show Besmirching Protesters Stirs Outrage
- Ahead of French vote, the left of the left gains ground
- Peace bid as fighting grips Syria
- Liberals walk out of Egypt assembly selection
- Egypt liberals boycott panel vote
- John Payton, Influential Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies at 65
- France Eases Terror Alert
- Top Bailout Fund Option Seen Last
- Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December
- CofE dioceses reject unity plan
- Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap
- Voter Turnout Appears Light in Louisiana Primary
- FiveThirtyEight: Political Geography: Louisiana
- Military defectors unite under Free Syrian Army
| In South Korean classrooms, digital textbook revolution meets some resistance Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:37 PM PDT SEOUL — Five years ago, South Korea mapped out a plan to transform its education system into the world's most cutting-edge. The country would turn itself into a "knowledge powerhouse," one government report declared, breeding students "equipped for the future." These students would have little use for the bulky textbooks familiar to their parents. Their textbooks would be digital, accessible on any screen of their choosing. Their backpacks would be much lighter. Read full article >>   
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:31 PM PDT Manchester City return to the top of the Premier League table on goal difference but drop points in a 1-1 draw at Stoke.
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| San Francisco Fights Erosion as Coastal Cities Watch Closely Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:56 PM PDT Every few years, stormy surf grinds away at Ocean Beach, a 3.5-mile stretch on the Pacific Ocean, pulling huge amounts of sand out to sea.
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| Psychologist Alerted Penn State’s Police to Sandusky in 1998, NBC Says Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:11 PM PDT More than a decade before the former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky was charged with child sexual abuse, a psychologist warned the university police about Sandusky's actions.
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| Breakdown | Death and Disarray at the Racetrack: Death and Disarray at America’s Racetracks Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:47 PM PDT The new economics of horse racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so, as lax oversight puts animal and rider at risk.
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:57 PM PDT Jockey Jacky Martin was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse.
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| Russian Show Besmirching Protesters Stirs Outrage Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:45 PM PDT As opposition leaders recover from the demise of mass antigovernment protests, some are looking to television as the next political battleground.
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| Ahead of French vote, the left of the left gains ground Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:51 AM PDT PARIS — More than 30,000 cheering supporters gathered at the Bastille, the icon of the French Revolution, to cheer Jean-Luc Melenchon as he shouted out his promises of a new dawn. He will lead them into another insurrection, he pledged, waving his arms and laughing in delight, to upend the political system, to rewrite the bourgeois constitution, to bridle the gnomes of predatory capitalism. Read full article >>
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| Peace bid as fighting grips Syria Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:55 AM PDT The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, arrives for talks in Moscow amid reports of 24 civilian deaths in continuing violence.
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| Liberals walk out of Egypt assembly selection Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:29 AM PDT Parliamentarians meet to name 100-member panel to write constitution, but liberals say Islamists are dominating process.
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| Egypt liberals boycott panel vote Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:07 PM PDT Egypt's liberal MPs walk out of a vote to choose a panel drafting a new constitution over fears Islamists will monopolise the process.
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| John Payton, Influential Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies at 65 Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:12 AM PDT President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund since 2008, Mr. Payton guided it to several major victories before the United States Supreme Court.
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:33 AM PDT France downgraded a maximum 'scarlet' terrorism alert that had been in effect in Toulouse since a shooter attacked a Jewish school Monday. French prosecutors are investigating whether the alleged killer had any accomplices.
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| Top Bailout Fund Option Seen Last Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:08 AM PDT Euro-zone governments appear to have ruled out the European Commission's proposal to fully combine temporary and permanent bailout funds to strengthen the zone's firewall against crisis.
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| Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:29 AM PDT GUIRIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre offshore gas project will begin production in December after years of delays and difficulties in attracting foreign partners, the South American country's energy minister said.
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| CofE dioceses reject unity plan Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PDT The Anglican Covenant - aimed at maintaining unity in the worldwide Anglican Communion - is rejected by Church of England dioceses.
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| Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A group claiming to be al Qaeda's north African wing said it had kidnapped a German man and demanded the release of a Muslim woman imprisoned in Germany in exchange for his freedom.
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| Voter Turnout Appears Light in Louisiana Primary Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:34 AM PDT As Louisiana became the 28th state to head to the polls in a drawn-out Republican presidential race, candidates had to compete with good weather and crawfish festivals.
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| FiveThirtyEight: Political Geography: Louisiana Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:14 AM PDT The state's Republican voters are similar to Mississippi's and Alabama's, but there are modest differences that could lead to a substantial electoral difference.
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| Military defectors unite under Free Syrian Army Posted: 24 Mar 2012 11:06 AM PDT A top defector from the Syrian military said Saturday that armed rebel groups have aligned under the leadership of the Free Syrian Army.
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