Education
Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1 but allow them to vary with the markets going forward. The White House issued the warning a day before the full House was scheduled to ...
2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school
Two elementary school students in Newton County were bitten by a fox while they were on a playground Wednesday morning, animal control officials said. The fox came onto the playground at Rocky Plains Elementary School in Covington and bit two 6-year-old boys, Newton County Animal Control Director Teri Key-Hoosen said. ...
Norovirus sickens more Sioux City children
Nearly a dozen more children at a Sioux City elementary school have called in sick due to symptoms from norovirus. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/10Q7GWB ) officials at Bryant Elementary School say 11 children said they would be out Wednesday. The Siouxland District Health Department announced Tuesday that lab ...
Beatles' lyrics headed for British Library
Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life." Although these three songs are legally credited to ...
UC hospitals in second day of worker walkout
Workers at University of California hospitals around the state were on strike for a second day Wednesday over staffing and pension issues. Thousands of hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room assistants and other health care workers observed the 48-hour walkout as green-shirted picketers marched outside medical centers. It prompted the ...
Mais non! French universities may teach in English
In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite. The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses — like science or economics classes — in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists ...
Czech president settles dispute over gay rights
The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him. Milos Zeman has been under fire after suggesting over the weekend that his reason for denying the promotion to Charles University literary historian Martin C. Putna was ...
Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time." Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to ...
6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack
A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday. All seven victims were in stable condition and a suspect was apprehended, according to a spokeswoman from the Maoming city government ...
UC hospitals say patients safe despite strike
Thousands of workers at University of California medical centers began a two-day strike on Tuesday that prompted the postponement of dozens of surgeries amid reassurances that patients were safe. A union representing some 13,000 hospital pharmacists, nursing assistants, operating room scrubs and other health care workers began the walkout at ...
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