The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Be Blogged
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NASA pulls contract from Boston University after finding out MIT is less than two miles away .
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Faculty support for former NASA chief Daniel Goldin as the next BU President was less than unanimous: ‘If the purpose of BU was to look for life on Mars, he would be the perfect person,” said a professor in the College of Communication, who asked not to be named .
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Young wrestlers Dzhambulat Khotokhov, a 4-year-old Russian weighing 56
kilograms (123 pounds) with a height of 118 centimeters (3 feet 11 inches), right, and Georgy Bibilauri, a Georgian, who turned 5 on Wednesday, 120 centimeters (4 feet) tall and weighing 51 kilograms (112 pounds) rest after tying in a wrestling match in Tbilisi on Wednesday. Khotokhov is the world’s largest 4-year-old, according to match organizers. |
Prof Assigns “Kill the President” email
A political science instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College is being investigated by the Secret Service for telling his students to compose an e- mail to an elected official that included the words “kill the president, kill the president,” a school administrator said Wednesday.
Michael Ballou, a part-time lecturer who teaches an “Introduction to U.S. Government” course at the college’s Petaluma campus, intended the assignment to be an “experiential exercise that would instill a sense of fear so they would have a better sense of why more people don’t participate in the political process, ” according to the San Francisco Chronicle
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The National Center for Education Statistics just released the results of the 2002 Assessment of Educational Progress Writing Exam. Among the results:
Connecticut got the highest scores, followed by Mass and Vermont.
Gaps persist between whites and minorities
Average scores nationwide in grades 4 and 8 increased between 98 and 02
