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- UC might limit freshman enrollment - Los Angeles Times
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  Further impacts of the budget deficit on higher education...
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- Gates Foundation releases new giving plans for education
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  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled new directions for its education giving, which include working to double the number of students who complete some kind of postsecondary degree. Efforts also would be made to identify and reward good teaching, help average teachers get better, devise better tests and create a national set of learning standards for high schools.
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- Bothell's Celeste Marion founds charitable special-ed school in Peru
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  Now, after having spent nearly four years in the country off and on, Marion has teamed up with a native partner to help found "Manos Unidas," or "United Hands," a charitable school for special-education students in Cusco, Peru. Currently run out of the home of Peruvian teacher Rosa Mercedes Delgado Chavez, United Hands should be moving to its own facility by early next year. Marion has been back home since August working to raise funds to help make that happen.
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- You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama
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  To all those who name the name of Christ who plan to willfully disobey Him by voting for Obama, take warning. Not only is our nation in grave danger, according to the Word of God, so are you.
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- Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
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  A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.
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- Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook
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  Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning. 'The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book, but its authors are expecting that legislators and the courts will be too stupid to notice that, or to remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.'
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- The Top Ten 'Greenest' Schools
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  Here are the top 10 colleges and universities that are doing the most to protect the environment.
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celestethelady comments on:
Bothell's Celeste Marion founds charitable special-ed school in Peru

Hi jeff,
I just found this on your newscloud site. thanks for posting that! I have been working on begining connections in the non-profit world and the international community. Let me know if you know people who may be interested in the work I am doing.
come to our first fundraiser on Saturday, December 6. It shoudl be a lot of fun, 3 live bands, auctioning off some small items and lots of promotion for my organization. Come and bring some friends!

thanks,
Celeste

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12:43 am 11/29/08
venez1 comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

I agree with Okami again: freedom of speech is the most important issue.
However, as they are free to say whatever bull**** they want, still we are free not to waste our time on them! As I said, I am not that optimistic about Obama, but let’s see whether he has got any idea behind his smile, especially as welfare and international politics are concerned…

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2:40 am 11/07/08
okami comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

. . .gonna be a while. . .got a helluva lotta damage to undo. . .and if this is really gonna be a ‘free’ country, it’s gonna pop up again and again. . .it has to, otherwise, there’d be no freedoms.
i don’t like it. . .now one whit. . .but if this is truly ‘free’ country, we must expect that we will encounter thngs like this. otherwise it negates the very principle of freedom.

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12:42 am 11/06/08
Damianmann comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

Good thing Obama won, huh? Now we can send this type of garbage to the trash heap where it belongs.

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9:20 pm 11/05/08
venez1 comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

Hi okami,
I don’t know if USA are a racist nation, I don’t think so and I hope not. But I agree with you 100% on the other bits of your comments!

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1:15 am 11/02/08
okami comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

this type of story is why i don’t and won’t belong to any church. Nietschze was 100% correct when he said that "Christianity died on the cross."
people fear change and the future and uncertainity.
this is also a racist nation; the 12 of September 2001 proved that. it will take about another 400 years to get rid of it. . .maybe.

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1:12 am 11/02/08
venez1 comments on:
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama

Ah, by the way. If I were an US citizen, I would vote conservative, but definitely not because of Obama’s skin colour or because of his religious ideas, if any.
That’s why I am afraid Obama’s gonna win: because of conservatives’ lackness of proper arguments, I am afraid…
US fellows: W A K E U P !!! The world needs a strong US, leaded by an intelligent, rational, liberal person. Not from a religius freak!

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1:11 am 11/02/08

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Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.
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former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .
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