Values/ethics
Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:16.In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:03.At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal. read more »
U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:37.A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. read more »
Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:16.The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits. read more »
Pro-Government Source Says Brega “Cleared of “Armed Gangs
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:56.Libyan state television Sunday reported a regime army source claiming that the Libyan armed forces have cleared “armed gangs” from the key oil town of Brega in the east of the capital, Tripoli. read more »
Oak Park student circulates list degrading female students (on Facebook)
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 23:02.Girls, parents band together to press for strong disciplinary action read more »
Clinton Reaches Out to Several Countries about Wikileaks
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 19:44.U.S. read more »
Is Harry Potter Partly to Blame for India's Pet Owl Crisis?
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 18:01.India is currently weathering an endangered owl crisis, and Harry Potter may be partly to blame. read more »
Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:30.NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee read more »
Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:14.Steven Hayes was sentenced to death by a Connecticut jury today (11.8.2010) for his role in the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters. read more »
GOP: There'll be no compromise on tax cuts
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 22:34.WASHINGTON — Republicans leader in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest taxpayers. read more »
Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 20:01.Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box. read more »
Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:57.Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
India students suspended for rude Facebook messages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:10.A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook. read more »
Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:32.Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from: read more »
Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 12:05.Recent Photo
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Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally
Submitted by bmidwinter on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 13:26.To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country. read more »
Viewpoint: Religious freedom is not tolerance
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:59.Here's an essay question, students: Religious freedom and religious tolerance are not the same thing, or are they? Discuss. read more »
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:08.A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret.
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. read more »
Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:59.Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists. read more »
Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:58.How good is one teacher compared with another? read more »
Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:47.Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today. read more »
All about me? College kids lack empathy : Compared to 30 years ago, it's all about me now, study finds
Submitted by newscaster on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 22:37.College students today are less likely to "get" the emotions of others than their counterparts 20 and 30 years ago, a new review study suggests. read more »
