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Recently, millions of Americans like any other weekend decided to escape the hustle and bustle of real life to go see the movie "300". Like past movies like Braveheart and Gladiator, the central themes of this latest pic are loyalty and honor AT ANY COST. And as expected, 300 smashed the record for a movie release in March. Unfortunately the world outside of the theater is much different that the qualities ...More

This is a piece that I found in the BBC this morning. While it shines a light on a little known problem in Haiti, IMO, the author goes way out of his way to make a case that poverty causes people to enslave one another. This says a lot about how he really thinks about Haitian people in general. Jeanette is walking up a hill in Petionville, a district in the ...More

Before students at Morey Middle School took CSAP tests this year, school administrators pulled all the African-American students into two assemblies and told them that, as a whole, they were not performing as well as their peers at the school. The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were told that the school's principal and assistant principal care about them and that they wanted to hear from them about what they could do to ...More

(SciDev.Net -- Allafrica.com) Zambia's first private university for science and technology will open in July, while the country's state-run university faces problems due to a lack of government support. Victoria Falls University of Technology, based in Livingstone, Zambia, will offer training in information and communication engineering and agricultural food processing. Gertrude Akapelwa-Ehueni, chief executive officer of Victoria Falls, told SciDev.Net that the idea for the University was prompted by the shortage of ...More