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First, the news... San Francisco's Board of Education Thursday night voted to close, merge and relocate more than a dozen public schools to save some of the millions that the district says it lost this year due to declining enrollment. The board did its work during a five-hour meeting before hundreds of angry parents, students and teachers who filled the Everett Middle School auditorium and occasionally shouted -- or wept aloud -- ...More

Bilal Jean-Paul of amanady.com sent this comment on razor bumps. == Razor Bumps: Razor bumps and ingrown hairs on the bearded skin are medically referred to as pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB). Razor Bumps are caused by the end of the hair shaft being cut in such a way, as the hair continues to grow it curls into another nearby hair follicle. This introduction of the sharpened end of a hair follicle into another causes ...More

I talked about this morning in Science & Technology about latest a little bit about my reason for switching from cable to satellite. Now I will share with you a little bit about the first satellite company I chose. More

A la carte programing for cable TV? Sounds like that is coming down the pike, starting with a family tier soon to be offered. First, the news... More

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Atlanta, GA, 01/18/2006 - African-American entrepreneur of search engine startup will blog commentary and real-time experience as a corporate web developer and web entrepreneur in hopes to educate and motivate others on launching a web operation. More

from: intelihealth.com Depending on the food, carbohydrate labeling can be broken down into "Dietary Fiber", "Sugars," "Sugar Alcohols" and "Other Carbohydrates." More

Just the picture of this in my head has me cracking up! 'No nudity for sex' Cairo - An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars. According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), "being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage". More

Gay men to donate blood in S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- After the South African National Blood Services said it wouldn't take blood from homosexual men, gay activists said they will flood blood banks. More

Although this article is dated by at least a few days, it is still worth the mention: ==== Curtis Ferguson has had enough. The art teacher at the predominantly black Carter High School in Dallas has had it with his students’ free and easy use of racist epithets for each other. More

"Like any icon of the African-American community, and this is my personal opinion, we're certainly subject to criticism," Bowman said. "We're mainly an entertainment network, but people expect us to be all things to all black people. "So the criticism, whether I agree with it or not, is there." (Black Entertainment Television vice president Quinton Bowman) More

The Ludacris Foundation, established by rapper-turned-actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, has teamed with one of the nation’s leading advocates for Americans with disabilities to launch a new public awareness campaign designed to shed light on the disproportionate rate of disability in minority communities. More

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Here is yet another example of a comment that can be easily interpreted as racist being overlooked by racism emotionalists because of WHO it is coming from: More