• Two-man play is ghostly tale of race and identity

    Minneapolis Star Tribune - That man is Lewis, a middle-aged black mathematics professor whose wife has recently left him, ostensibly because he refused to participate in the Million Man March. Over the course of a sleepless night, he is visited by the ghosts of his great ...
    2008-01-19 03:57:00
  • Do UFOs really exist?

    Scotland on Sunday Online - IT'S the weird and wonderful place where the men in grey suits from Whitehall meet the little green men from Mars. Do you have any photographs of UFOs? Share them with us by emailing them to sospics@scotlandonsunday.com The Ministry of Defence has ...
    2008-01-20 12:42:00
  • In electronic world, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD battle for same constituency ...

    Auburn Plainsman - Katie Wilson, a freshman in mathematics, owns a Playstation 3 which contains a Blu-Ray Disc player.    “The image is a lot clearer and bold,” said Wilson. “It’s really cool on action movies because of the vivid colors.” Alan Brazzell, a ...
    2008-01-20 12:06:00
  • Science and technology teachers mix it up at NZIC

    Scoop - The 2008 New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowship Symposium will be held at the NZ International Campus, Wellington, 22 -24 January. This annual three day event brings together incoming 2008 recipients with Teacher Fellows ...
    2008-01-20 01:47:00
  • Getting WIRED

    Evansville Courier-Press - WIRED also wants to hire a company that will help it equip a trailer with various pieces of equipment that can be used to teach students about science, mathematics and engineering. And they will use part of the money to continue training those workers ...
    2008-01-20 01:25:00
  • 2 families honor murdered loved ones by opposing death penalty

    San Francisco Examiner - Shannon had majored in mathematics, economics and philosophy, earning a 3.6 grade point average. "She was just unbelievable from day one," Vicki said. Despite their loss, the Schiebers fought prosecutors' attempt to execute their daughter's killer ...
    2008-01-20 02:08:00
  • U.K. Education Aims at Universal Broadband

    Stockhouse Canada - There is a statistically significant positive association between pupils' home use of ICT for educational purposes and improved attainment in national tests: mathematics at Key Stages 2, 3 and 4; English Key Stage 4 (Valentine et al 2005). Where ...
    2008-01-20 03:20:00
  • and it's a party we don't want to miss!

    Stockhouse Canada - Here I stand as a new Luther and bear witness that mathematics has not been in the past, is not at present, nor will it ever in the future be able to make predictions about human behavior based on minimal samples. I am fully aware of the significance ...
    2008-01-20 03:20:00
  • My village refuse my going to England

    Vanguard - So I left home at the tender age of about Sixteen and went to Ikom, and after about two to three weeks I convinced the Principal of Velos Commercial Secondary school that I could teach, Mathematics, Integrated science and other things with my mock ...
    2008-01-20 04:24:00
  • MPs renew calls for EU referendum

    BBC News - We'll see about the parliamentary mathematics of it but that's cuckooland to say that there's 100 MPs on the Labour benches that are going to vote against." In an interview on BBC One's Politics Show, Foreign Secretary David Miliband maintained the ...
    2008-01-20 02:37:00
  • Martyn Williams helps Cardiff return to the days of past successes

    Times Online - The mathematics of the last round of pool games were not washed away in the curtain of rain that swept over the ground at the interval and with the match safely in their pockets, Cardiff could have gone for broke. Bristol deserve credit for keeping ...
    2008-01-20 02:51:00
  • Mafia killers arm themselves with degrees

    Times Online - They recently gained first-class degrees — Giuseppe in mathematics and Filippo in economics. Prison authorities said that a growing number of imprisoned Mafia killers are taking degrees, and that their motives may not be entirely to do with ...
    2008-01-20 03:55:00
  • MPs begin bruising fight over European treaty

    Financial Times - We'll see about the parliamentary mathematics of it, but it's cuckoo-land to say there are 100 MPs on the Labour benches that are going to vote against." Rebel Labour MPs, the Tories and the eurosceptic press see this period as their main opportunity ...
    2008-01-20 05:57:00
  • Mafia killers arm themselves with degrees (Times Online)

    Mafia bosses do not come much more brutal than Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano.
    2008-01-20 02:54:38
  • Science and technology teachers mix it up at NZIC (Scoop.co.nz)

    The 2008 New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowship Symposium will be held at the NZ International Campus, Wellington, 22 -24 January.
    2008-01-20 02:23:19
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