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The History Channel is one of my favorite haunts. Like the Discovery Channel, you can’t help but learn something while watching. Of course, the reality shows are pretty great, too. Take Ice Road Truckers, for example. Crazy drivers driving the big rigs on a tenuous ice road? Yeah, that’s entertainment. Lisa Kelly is one of [...]... Read the rest of "Lisa Kelly: Ice Road Looker"
Just want to let you know if the power goes out (because of the heat wave), there will be no more blogging today. I will probably just dry up and blow away if I don’t have AC…... Read the rest of "Power Shortage"
As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech — not just on exams, but also by plagiarising to their term papers ans coursework from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files — educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.
No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student’s communication by a hands-free cell-phone to an accomplice outside.
The 228 computers that students use, are recessed into desk tops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot.
Scratch paper is allowed — but it is stamped with the date and must be turned in later.
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 Chick-fil-A is issuing a cattle call! On Friday, July 9th, Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide will celebrate the organization's annual Cow Appreciation Day event by offering a FREE meal to any guest who visits the restaurant fully dressed as a cow!Guests dressed "head-to-hoof" in cow attire will be rewarded with a free Chick-fil-A meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner). For those "too chicken" to wear full cow costumes, Chick-fil-A will award a compliment... Read the rest of "Cow Appreciation Day"
Looking for something to do this Saturday?Essential Element, a new Pennsylvania company, has invented a water purifier powered by solar hydrogen energy. Saturday they will be demonstrating the HYDRA, which can provide 20,000 gallons of purified drinking water a day, at the Franklin Institute's Earth Fair. The demo will be outside, near the front steps, from 1:30 to 4:30, with water purifications on the hour. The HYDRA made it's Philly debut last month at the Fairmount Water Works. 
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In what appears to be the end of the Michael Vick birthday party shooting fiasco, Virginia Beach Police announced that they’ve identified the sho... 
