There is no reason to believe that a missing Yale graduate student and bride-to-be ran away, the school’s vice president said Saturday.
‘No reason’ to believe missing bride-to-be ran away, official says
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The Cost of Raising Kids
This is the time of year — second only to December, maybe — when we’re reminded how much kids cost. It’s nice when states suspend their sales tax for a week of back-to-school shopping, but it doesn’t change the fact that somehow we have to start over in September: new sneakers, new notebooks, maybe a new lunch box, because SpongeBob is so last season.
Report: Iranian prison chief dismissed, arrested
Authorities have fired and arrested the chief of an Iranian jail that was closed amid allegations of mistreatment of detainees held for protesting June’s disputed election, Iranian media reported Sunday.
Alumna sues college because she hasn’t found a job
A recent college graduate is suing her alma mater for $72,000 — the full cost of her tuition and then some — because she cannot find a job.
Can iStanford Take On Facebook Mobile?
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Cricket, Ivy League classmates startled student Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of this insect was Jiminy from "Pinocchio." She tore her dorm room apart looking for the critter every night. PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) — Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket.
Iranian-Americans say history is at hand
Some Iranian-Americans, watching the post-election unrest in Iran, say the tug-of-war between the people and their hardline government has come to a head after three decades. “I am absolutely convinced that what we are witnessing is a turning point in the history of the Islamic Republic,” said Dr. Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.
Student attacks stoke India-Australia tensions
Anjali Thakur is living in fear in India. She is a mother afraid for her son
Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades
There are at least a few in every college dorm: students who seem to exist in their own time zone, in bed hours before everyone else and awake again at daybreak, rested and prepared for the morning’s first lecture. Sleep researchers refer to these early risers as larks , and new data presented this week at the annual Associated Professional Sleep Societies suggest that a student’s preferred sleeping schedule has a lot to do with his or her grade-point average in school. In one study, psychologists at Hendrix College in Arkansas found that college freshmen who kept night-owl hours had lower GPAs than early birds.
Why Are So Many Female Florida Teachers Sleeping With Male Students?
If you’re the parent of a teen-aged boy in Florida, you probably muttered “not again” while reading your morning newspaper this week. There on the front page was yet another case of an adult female teacher being arrested for admitting to having had sex with an underage male student