Money News – Who are the long-term unemployed? Increasingly, it’s baby boomers who have the bad luck of getting laid off and then find they are locked out of the work force, possibly for good. A new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts throws a harsh light on the retirement prospects of millions of middle-income Americans. “In the ?rst quarter of 2012, older workers were less likely to lose their jobs in the first place,” Pew researchers write in an update on the job crisis. Read Article
Reuters – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput stripped five priests of their duties and apologized to their victims on Friday following an investigation into a pedophilia scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic archdiocese. The sanctions come as the archdiocese nears the end of its investigation into 27 priests who were put on leave when a January 2011 grand jury report raised questions about their possible involvement in abusing children. Read Article
Guardian – When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong’s Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come. But after posting “God doesn’t exist” on Facebook, the soft-spoken civil servant, 30, faces up to 11 years in jail for what is considered blasphemy in Indonesia. His case has stoked a debate in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, whose 240 million citizens are technically guaranteed freedom of religion but protected by law only if they believe in one of six credos: Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. Those who question any of those face five years in prison for “insulting a major religion”, plus an additional six years if they use the internet to spread such “blasphemy” to others. Read Article
Used effectively, quotations can provide important pieces of evidence and lend fresh voices and perspectives to an idea. They often convey an important, witty idea or thought relevant to a conversation or topic in a succinct and memorable way. They are often used to support, oppose or present an entirely different view of a situation and (used appropriately) they can bolster one’s credentials as to being knowledgeable. Or as Churchill once said “t is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations”. See our Quotations from around the world. CLICK HERE
CTV — An industry-funded program that offers high school teachers a six-day trip to Fort McMurray to “experience Alberta’s oilsands” is being expanded across the country. While the operators of Inside Education say they work hard to ensure their programming offers plenty of balance, others say informing educators about controversial developments shouldn’t be left to those with most to gain from them. Read article
Open your eyes for there is a brave new world upon us! Aldous Huxley’s 5thnovel prophetically anticipates developments in reproductive technology, drug use, education and psychoanalysis that combine to change society. Watch our brave new world come into focus before your very eyes by reading our news archive on the subject. CLICK HERE
Whether the rationale behind it is moral, political, religious (or anything else) censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication by a controlling body. Recently even the most “developed” countries have practiced censorship in order to further their own agenda, which goes against the concept of the inherent human right to voice one’s opinion without fear of punishment. See our news archive of 265 articles for a commentary and archival information about this topic from around the world. CLICK HERE
Mail Online – A class of children sit revising for make-or-break exams to get them into the college of their choice. It’s the sort of scene that could be seen in high schools across the world but for one important difference: The pupils have intravenous drips hanging over their desks. The image is taken from footage that claims to reveal the controversial use of the drips to boost pupils’ ability to study at a school in Xiaogan, Hubei province, China. Read Article
LA Times – A nation still struggling to clear up one housing debacle has run smack into another — soaring rents. The foreclosure mess has pushed millions of former homeowners with tarnished credit into a competitive apartment market across the U.S. Add fresh demand from young workers, few new units and tight standards for home loans, and the result is rental sticker shock not seen in years. Read Article
AP – Fighting obesity will require changes everywhere Americans live, work, play and learn, says a major new report that outlines dozens of options – from building more walkable neighborhoods to zoning limits on fast-food restaurants to selling healthier snacks in sports arenas. But schools should be a national focus because that’s where children spend most of their day, eat a lot of their daily calories – and should be better taught how to eat healthy and stay fit, the influential Institute of Medicine said Tuesday. Read article
The Sunday Times – The sale of a bankrupt dairy farm group to a Chinese firm has sparked fears of a foreign land grab in New Zealand, as well as revealing what critics label a ‘dark side’ of the national psyche. After a review process lasting more than 12 months, the government last month approved the sale of the 16-property Crafar Farms group to China’s Shanghai Pengxin in a deal reportedly worth NZ$210 million (S$207 million). Read Article
BBC – The public should be vigilant about persistent coughs as they could be a sign of lung cancer, a new government advertising drive is warning. The campaign, which is being run in TV, radio, print and online media, recommends people with coughs lasting three weeks visit their GP. Read article
Population growth has increased significantly as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace from 1700 onwards. So much so that the 7 billionth person was born in late 2011. The last 50 years have seen a yet more rapid increase in the rate of population growth due to medical advances and substantial increases in agricultural productivity. The United Nations Population Division projected that the world’s population will likely surpass 10 billion in 2055, raising a number of economic, environmental and sustainability questions. See our news archive of 398 articles on Population for a comprehensive view. CLICK HERE
BBC – A British-owned advertising agency has condemned its team in Argentina over an “offensive” video showing an Argentine athlete training in the Falklands. Read article
AFP – More Mexicans were deported from the United States than those who migrated there last year, according to a second study this week showing a changing pattern of migration in the region. The study, released Wednesday by Mexico’s College of the Northern Border, said the flow of Mexicans to the United States started falling in 2008, when more than 700,000 crossings were recorded, to less than 350,000 in 2011. Read Article
ScienceDaily — The slaughter of animals for commercial meat supply without stunning them first should at the very least be curbed, if not banned, concludes a former president of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) in an opinion piece in this week’s Veterinary Record. There has been a steady rise in the number of animals killed in this way over the past decade, the available data suggest. UK and EU legislation allow for the slitting of animals’ throats without prior stunning to enable Muslims and Jews to meet the dietary requirements of their faiths, but with the caveat that it must not cause “unnecessary suffering.” But it does, says Professor Bill Reilly, pointing to the findings of both the former Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) and the EU funded Dialrel Project, which encouraged dialogue among 11 countries on issues of religious slaughter. Read Article
Originally Broadcast 13 February 2012 – With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States
Newstatesman – The illegal eavesdropping on well-known people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known? In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper. Australia is the world’s first murdochracy, in which smear by media is power. The most enduring and insidious Murdoch campaign has been against the Aboriginal people, who were dispossessed by the arrival of the British in the late 18th century and have never been allowed to recover. “Nigger hunts” continued into the 1960s and beyond. Read Article
A right to education has been created and recognized by the European Convention on Human Rights and, at the global level, the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees this right. Despite this edict, education in its broadest, is still not consistently mapped out or provided in even the most developed of nations. For a comprehensive view of world news about Education; its institutions, policies and methodologies read our news archive of 402 articles. CLICK HERE
Independent – A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives yesterday at the office of a major daily newspaper in the capital, Abuja, and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least seven people. The attack in Abuja struck the offices of ThisDay. The bombing in Kaduna struck offices for ThisDay, The Moment and The Daily Sun. Read Article
BBC – Up to 90% of school leavers in major Asian cities are suffering from myopia – short-sightedness – a study suggests. Researchers say the “extraordinary rise” in the problem is being caused by students working very hard in school and missing out on outdoor light. The scientists told the Lancet that up to one in five of these students could experience severe visual impairment and even blindness. Read article
CNN – There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think.
While it’s true that the unemployment rate is falling, that doesn’t include the millions of nonworking adults who aren’t even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn’t strong enough to keep up with population growth. Read article
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