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Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)
Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name exquisitely connotes tranquility, American values, and the smiling faces of guileless, hard-working citizens. It is also home of the Nittany Lions, a name long synonymous with Penn State’s football team. The N...
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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and insp...
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Rudderless (James Howard Kunstler)
Nov. 14, 2011 -- The Penn State football sex scandal, and the depraved response of the university community at all levels, tells whatever you need to know about the spiritual condition of this flounde...
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The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)
Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind...
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SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)
Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, w...
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Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)
Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatizatio...
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Scientists Create 'Hole In Space' In Demonstration Of Time Cloaking
'This approach is based on accelerating and slowing down the front and rear parts, respectively, of the probe beam to create a well-controlled temporal gap,' scientists write. July 14, ...
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One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2011 -- GAZA --A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The v...
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Thank You Cornel West (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Cornel West Joel S.Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 24, 2011 --The outspoken scholar and Princeton University professor Cornel West has been viciously attacked by many on the political left, e...
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That anxiety may be in your gut, not in your head (McMaster University)
McMaster research finds link between gut bacteria and behaviour May 17, 2011 -- HAMILTON, Ont. (McMasters University) -- For the first time, researchers at McMaster University have conclusive evidenc...
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Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West (Chris Hedges)
May 23, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class, which attempted last week to discredit the words my friend Cornel Westspoke aboutBarack Obama and the Democratic Party, prefers comfort and privilege to j...
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The Five Most Significant Actions You Can Take To Protect Yourself From The Earth's No. 1 Killer (Millie Bruce)
Millie Bruce -- World News Trust May 14, 2011 -- For men and women of all ages, coronary disease is considered the No. 1 killer. It kills more people than ALL different types of cancer joined toget...
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Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (Chris Hedges)
Apr. 11, 2011 (Truthdig) --Anation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement...
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Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killi...
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Failure of Academia: The Book that Was Not Meant to Be Published (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 13, 2011 -- Deepak Tripathi’s most recent book, Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books) raises several issues, both wi...
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Ibargüen Video on Journalism and New Media (Chuck Gregory)
This from another Wesleyan alum, albeit before my time there. I thought Alberto's views were highly relevant to the way news reporting has changed in the last few years. Alberto Ibargüen ’66, P...
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Student badges equipped with tracking devices (Tiffany Craig)
Oct. 1, 2010 -- SANTA FE (WKOU) -- Students in Santa Fe have to wear ID badges to class, complete with a built-in tracking device. The Smart Badge program started this school year, and is getting mix...
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The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order (Andrew Gavin Marshall)
This is Part 1 of the series, "The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom." June 24, 2010 (Global Research) -- There is a new and unique development in human history that is t...
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'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)
As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry,The Great Work July 5, 2010 (Carol...