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NEW DELHI -- A recent youth festival aimed at raising awareness about health issues and HIV in India did something unique to draw visitors. Amid all the sobering talk of at-risk communities, safe sex and health care, the festival invited bashful ...
2009-03-01 07:34:00
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Popular children end up earning higher salaries, according to research. A study by Essex University found that for each extra friend a pupil had a school, their salary was two per cent higher 35 years later. Professor Stephen Pudney, one of the ...
2009-03-01 04:28:00
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The opportunities, benefits and challenges of building the world's biggest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - were in the spotlight at the SKA Forum 2009 in Cape Town this week. Leading South African and international astronomers ...
2009-03-01 05:39:00
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A rare, late winter snowstorm gave three van loads of Miami Valley School students and their chaperones an eventful trip on Sunday, March 1, from Atlanta to Athens, Ga. The 13 students — chaperoned by two teachers and one teacher's wife — are ...
2009-03-01 10:11:00
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Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius were all, in their own ...
2009-03-01 01:43:00
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And when it does, there will be an even greater need for engineers, accountants and others with math and science backgrounds, educators told high school girls gathered at an event Friday at San Bernardino Valley College. "It is important at any time ...
2009-02-27 05:56:00
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To be a premedical student is to become part of a certain type of academic culture. This culture can most easily be characterized by its stereotypes, chief among which, especially in the eyes of outsiders, is individual competitiveness. The ...
2009-03-01 09:47:00
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There are days when I wish I was retired. I don’t mean to wish away my life and I know retirement isn’t all fun and games, but it would be nice to not have to adhere to a strict schedule and to have some time to do all the things I enjoy doing ...
2009-03-01 03:59:00
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Casey Gorton was convinced the letter was a mistake. As a 23-year-old single mother and full-time student, the Fort Collins woman thought the military letter that called her into service would never come. But it did, and Gorton, a young mother with a ...
2009-03-01 03:23:00
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Mumbai: For Rupam Kudtarkar, 16, the hunt for a scribe to help write her class X board exams has not been easy. Rupam, who lost her vision when she was in class VII, started her search for a scribe in December last year. "It is difficult to find a ...
2009-03-01 03:52:00
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It is that time of the year. Over 14.5 lakh students across 5,223 centres will appear for their Class X and XII exams beginning today. Delhi alone has over four lakh of these. Unlike last year, when the CBSE introduced questions that tested students ...
2009-03-01 02:04:00
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Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius were all, in their own way, influenced by Greek knowledge and transferred it to Roman literature. In his dissertation, Erik Bohlin, at the University of Gothenburg, ...
2009-03-01 01:48:21
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ONE of the best ways to create wealth is to buy your own home and pay it off, provided you have a reasonable deposit and research the market. This way, you will recognise a bargain when you find one and it's hard to go wrong. The house payments are a ...
2009-03-01 07:59:00
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The event will happen at the Capitol in Charleston on Thursday, March 12th. Huntington -- One hundred six students, including 35 from Marshall University, will take part in the sixth annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston on ...
2009-03-01 06:34:00
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A study by Essex University found that for each extra friend a pupil had a school, their salary was two per cent higher 35 years later. Professor Stephen Pudney, one of the researchers from the university's Institute for Social and Economic Research ...
2009-03-01 08:14:00
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