• Climate change forecasts are useless for policymaking - Enter Stage Right

    Even as we struggle with serious global financial and economic difficulties, some people believe manmade global warming is a real problem of urgent concern. Perhaps this is because, almost every day, media outlets quote "experts" who predict that ...
    2009-03-08 10:06:00
  • Obama's Audacious Budget Brings Back Big Government - US News and World Report

    Historians disagree on whether architect Daniel Burnham actually spoke the enduring credo: "Make no little plans. They have no magic. . . . Make big plans." Some believe that after his death in 1912, a colleague penned the words based on things he'd ...
    2009-03-08 10:56:00
  • Rais: Let schools use BM - New Straits Times

    BACHOK: Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim is against the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English. He said the Education Act stated that Bahasa Malaysia should be the medium of instruction for all subjects in school. He said Bahasa ...
    2009-03-08 08:25:00
  • 5 held during protest march released on bail - New Straits Times

    KUALA LUMPUR: All five protesters detained during the march from the National Mosque to Istana Negara on Saturday have been released on police bail pending an investigation. City police chief Datuk Muhammad Sabtu Osman said three men who were being ...
    2009-03-08 08:25:00
  • Math Olympics winner doesn't really like math (Windsor Star)

    Jason Zhang is an unlikely mathlete. Despite winning the Windsor Essex Mathematics Olympics for the second consecutive year Saturday, the Grade 8 student from John Campbell Public School isn't that interested in a long-term career in a math-related field."
    2009-03-08 09:32:53
  • Senior Lib Dems plot ‘auction for power’ (Financial Times)

    Senior Liberal Democrats will prepare for an “auction for power” in the event of a hung parliament by using applied mathematics to predict the future.
    2009-03-08 09:13:37
  • Editorial: Decide and implement (The New Straits Times)

    EDUCATION Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein asks why it has taken six years for the "Gerakan Mansuh PPSMI" to file a police report against the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English, and it is difficult not to respond to the question with another: Why is it taking so long for the measure to be decided upon and installed for good?
    2009-03-08 07:21:05
  • Objections had been discussed when policy first proposed: Dompok (The New Sabah Times)

    KOTA KINABALU : Objections surrounding the use of English as the medium of instruction for Mathematics and Science in schools, had been discussed when the policy was first proposed.
    2009-03-08 11:06:36
  • For Toufic Araman, photography is the most fulfilling art... - Egypt Today

    E l-Alsson School (EA) offers co-educational English education and serves Egyptian and expatriate children. Established in 1982, the school is custom-built on a 23,000-square-meter site in Haraniya, in the countryside near the Giza Pyramids. The ...
    2009-03-08 05:48:00
  • Pensions: The obligation belongs to GM and the CAW, not the Canadian ... - Canada Free Press

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  • Despite high jobless rate, Indiana gets less stimulus cash - Indianapolis Star

    Indiana is getting a smaller slice of the federal stimulus package than many other states hit less hard by the recession. That's the conclusion of an analysis by The Indianapolis Star, which looked at a major piece of the $787 billion spending ...
    2009-03-08 01:59:00
  • Govt courts Senators ahead of WorkChoices debate - Australian Broadcasting Corp.

    The Federal Government is lobbying key cross-bench Senators ahead of this week's debate on the Government's new workplace laws. The Government says its new Fair Work Bill will put an end to the Howard Government's WorkChoices laws. Federal Workplace ...
    2009-03-08 05:48:00
  • Cancer didn't stop her - Electric New Paper

    Miss Bala, who was diagnosed in 2003 with B-cell lymphoma, earned her degree in mathematics recently. But a near-death experience changed Miss Renganathan Balasaraswathi's attitude towards life. Not only did she continue battling cancer, she went ...
    2009-03-08 04:44:00
  • Puteri’s ‘English on Wheels’ project to continue (The Star)

    KUALA LUMPUR: The Selayang Puteri Umno division will proceed with its “English on Wheels” programme to promote the use of English among children regardless of whether the Education Ministry decides to continue using it or scrapping it in the teaching of Science and Mathematics.
    2009-03-08 06:30:07
  • Review of Maths and Science on track, says Hisham (The Star)

    KUALA LUMPUR: The review and report on whether to continue teaching Mathematics and Science in English is on track, said Edu- cation Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.
    2009-03-08 06:29:57
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