AP-mtvU Poll: High tech tools connect college students but also bring stress, vulnerability

Poll: Technology connects students, brings stress

WASHINGTON – Technology has become so entwined with college students’ often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they’d be more frazzled without it.
Yet The Associated Press-mtvU Poll, released Thursday, also found that being perpetually connected comes at a cost. While 57 percent of students said life without …. Original source  : AP-mtvU Poll: High tech tools connect college students but also bring stress, vulnerability.

AP-mtvU Poll: High-tech tools connect college students but also bring stress, vulnerability

AP-mtvU Poll: Technology brings connection, stress

WASHINGTON – Technology has become so entwined with college students’ often frantic lives that most in a new survey say they’d be more frazzled without it.
Yet The Associated Press-mtvU Poll, released Thursday, also found that being perpetually connected comes at a cost. While 57 percent of students said life without … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : AP-mtvU Poll: High-tech tools connect college students but also bring stress, vulnerability.

LA schools’ proposed layoffs system could be landmark, but teachers union promises a challenge

LA schools seek layoffs system opposed by union

LOS ANGELES – A proposed agreement that would change how teachers are laid off in the nation’s second-largest school district is being hailed as a landmark that could pave the way for changes in urban districts across the nation, but the city’s teachers union said Wednesday that it … Original article on : LA schools’ proposed layoffs system could be landmark, but teachers union promises a challenge.

Utah teens hit by lightning after school said to be recovering at Las Vegas hospital

Utah teens hit by lightning said to be recovering

LAS VEGAS – A trauma doctor treating one of two Utah teenagers struck by lightning said Wednesday the boy will likely recover but could be left with burn scars across his body.
Alex Lambson, 17, was in an induced coma at University Medical Center, where he was being [..] Read the original article: here.

AP-GfK Poll: GOP edge with working-class whites resembles elections when party was victorious

AP-GfK Poll: Working-class whites move toward GOP

WASHINGTON – Working-class whites are favoring Republicans in numbers that parallel the GOP tide of 1994 when the party grabbed control of the House after four decades.
The increased GOP tilt by these voters, a major hurdle for Democrats struggling to keep control of Congress in next month’s elections, reflects …. Source  : AP-GfK Poll: GOP edge with working-class whites resembles elections when party was victorious.

Brazil judge rules college must compensate student expelled for wearing mini-dress

Brazil college to pay for mini-dress expulsion

SAO PAULO – The private college that expelled a student who wore a short, pink dress to class has been ordered to pay her more than US$20,000 in compensation, a court announced Wednesday.
Judge Rodrigo Gorga Campos ordered Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo to pay Geisy Arruda 40,000 …. Read the original article  : Brazil judge rules college must compensate student expelled for wearing mini-dress.

Free entry for students to Games venues?

NEW DELHI – If Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has her way, students will get to see the Commonwealth Games events for free.

Realizing that many venues were hardly attracting crowds, the Delhi government Wednesday asked the Games Organising Committee (OC) to provide free entry to school and college students, informed sources said.
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ACLU sues NC school over suspension of student with nose piercing; she claims it is her faith

ACLU sues NC school over student’s nose piercing

RALEIGH, N.C. – The American Civil Liberties Union claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that a North Carolina school violated the constitutional rights of a 14-year-old student by suspending her for wearing a nose piercing.
The lawsuit from the state chapter of the ACLU seeks a court order allowing …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Amita Chattopadhyay first vice chancellor of Presidency University

KOLKATA – Renowned professor of philosophy Amita Chattopadhyay is all set to be the first vice chancellor of the Presidency University.

Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of the Presidency College and a retired professor of the Jadavpur University.
I am really happy. To be more frank, I am overwhelmed. It is a great honour for me …. Original source  : Amita Chattopadhyay first vice chancellor of Presidency University.

2 Japanese, American win chemistry Nobel for key chemical tool that spawned drugs, electronics

Trio wins Nobel for key chemical tool
STOCKHOLM – An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.

Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their development in …. Read the original article  : 2 Japanese, American win chemistry Nobel for key chemical tool that spawned drugs, electronics.

PM likely to inaugurate science meet in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may inaugurate Third World Academy of Sciences’ (TWAS) general meeting and lay the foundation stone for the Hyderabad campus of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research here Oct 19, an official said Wednesday.

State Information and Public Relations Minister J. Geeta Reddy told reporters, after a meeting of the … Original source on Gaea Times at : PM likely to inaugurate science meet in Hyderabad.