News of the day-ish
The South has more gay parents than any other part of the US.
A fundamentalist Mormon woman who grew up in a polygamous family and is now a wife in one testified in BC about the joy she feels in the arrangement.
There's been quite the flurry of news stories and blog posts about Amy Chua's upcoming book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Beyond the gut outrage her views are provoking, science doesn't support Chua's assertion that extreme authoritarian parenting produces successful children.
Phones and airplanes -- do you really have to turn it off? Frankly, that article didn't make me any less skeptical about the claim that phones can interfere with navigation instruments. "Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. 'They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,' said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American."
Don't go shelling out hundreds of dollars for custom orthotics before reading this article on their dubious efficacy.
Welcome to the future: Squeezed between mandated limits on class sizes and slashed budgets, Miami-Dade County Public Schools has replaced teachers in some classes with a bank of computers.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican to Irish bishops has recently surfaced -- advising them to not report priests suspected of abuse to the police.
Joan Rivers says that her appearance on a Fox News show was cancelled because of derogatory jokes she made about Sarah Palin.
A fundamentalist Mormon woman who grew up in a polygamous family and is now a wife in one testified in BC about the joy she feels in the arrangement.
There's been quite the flurry of news stories and blog posts about Amy Chua's upcoming book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Beyond the gut outrage her views are provoking, science doesn't support Chua's assertion that extreme authoritarian parenting produces successful children.
Phones and airplanes -- do you really have to turn it off? Frankly, that article didn't make me any less skeptical about the claim that phones can interfere with navigation instruments. "Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. 'They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,' said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American."
Don't go shelling out hundreds of dollars for custom orthotics before reading this article on their dubious efficacy.
Welcome to the future: Squeezed between mandated limits on class sizes and slashed budgets, Miami-Dade County Public Schools has replaced teachers in some classes with a bank of computers.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican to Irish bishops has recently surfaced -- advising them to not report priests suspected of abuse to the police.
Joan Rivers says that her appearance on a Fox News show was cancelled because of derogatory jokes she made about Sarah Palin.