The four middle school students from Greece, New York, caught on camera verbally abusing and tormenting a 68-year-old bus monitor have been suspended for a year and will be required to complete 50 hours of community service, school district officials said Friday. Recorded by a student with a cell phone camera on what was the second-to-last day […]
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The Holy Land: City of War & Worship
Ten measures of beauty came into the world: Jerusalem took nine and the rest of the world one.
Africa Rising
Hope is Africa’s rarest commodity.
A Brief History Of: The GI Bill
Few government programs have delivered on america’s promise as a land of opportunity as explicitly as the GI Bill.
Wind-powered craft aims to smash ice speed record
A British man who has just claimed the world land sailing speed record is now planning to better his speed — on ice. Using just wind power, Richard Jenkins drove his vehicle, the Greenbird, to 202 km/hour (126 miles/hour) in late March on the dry Lake Ivanpah near the border of California and Nevada in the western United States.
Bomb threat looms over Lebanese villagers
Diab Diab lost an eye and part of a leg trying to clear unexploded bombs from the fields of southern Lebanon.