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- Minority Scholars Program Changes Lives for Local Middle Schoolers (KSPR Springfield)
Drury University is hosting 15, 8th and 9th grade minority students on its campus this week. Three professors are behind their stay; the instructors say it is meant to make a life-long impact.
- Great Scot — Let the games begin - The Stamford Times
Great Scot — Let the games beginThe Stamford Times, CT - 7 hours agoThe modern-day games include a lot of tradition in the form of Scottish music, poetry, sing-a-longs, Scottish and Celtic food and vendors, clan gatherings, ...
- Hundreds mourn murdered Ashland native - MetroWest Daily News
Dawn Armstrong was a woman who "spent her dash wisely," the Rev. Ernest Batten told mourners who crowded into the Matarese Funeral Home Chapel yesterday. When dates of birth and death are recorded on a headstone, the dash between the years counts ...
- Katherine Cloninger, Alexandra Kaye of Palm Beach tap creativity for Do the Write Thing Challenge (Palm Beach Daily News)
Two Palm Beach girls were among students countywide who addressed teen violence in the Do the Write Thing contest, expressing themselves through poetry, prose and song.
- Comedian Dick Martin kept the laughs coming - Houston Chronicle
LOS ANGELES — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" died ...
- Dialect fun - Reuters
Dialect funReuters - 12 hours agoTang dynasty poetry, taught to every Chinese schoolchild and extremely beautiful, sounds a lot better read out in Cantonese or Hokkien than Mandarin. ...
- UAE wins five prizes at Gulf radio and TV production fest - Khaleej Times
UAE wins five prizes at Gulf radio and TV production festKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 4 hours agoThe gold winning programmes for innovation included ‘Poet of a Million’, a live pan-Arab poetry contest and ‘The Step’, a popular talk show, both produced ...
- Poetry: New Verses from Long Ago - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn RailPoetry: New Verses from Long AgoBrooklyn Rail, NY - 2 hours agoIn contrast both to the erotic rhapsodist of his early love poems and the demonic master of explosive imagery of his later works, Tau reveals a poet both ...
- Speaker to examine environmental health threats today - Ithaca Journal
Sandra Steingraber will be presenting her speech “Contaminated without Consent: Environmental Threats to Human Health.†At 7:30 p.m. today in the Melvin Community Room at the Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg ...
- Physicist with a passion for storytelling - Science Centric
Peter Freund packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians. The story of Emmy Noether is one that Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago, liked to share ...
- Book Review: Aram Saroyan's "Complete Minimal Poems" - International Herald Tribune
Complete Minimal Poems By Aram Saroyan. 277 pages. $20. Ugly Duckling Presse. This book collects nearly all the poems Aram Saroyan wrote in the 1960s, when he was in his early 20s and, as he put it, "the only person available at a typewriter who didn ...
- AIMS test may have no future in schools - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona had a precursor to the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards. Former state schools Superintendent C. Diane Bishop pushed for the Arizona Student Assessment Program, which she said boosted student achievement, while opponents contended that ...
- Jay-Z: Glasto row is 'ridiculous' - BBC News
The hip-hop star is the first ever rapper to top the bill on the Pyramid stage on Saturday 28 June. The announcement has been met with some criticism, with Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher claiming he was "wrong" for the event. But Jay-Z said: "It's ...
- America's Got Talent Review - Ugo.com
My heart melted last night. No, it was not a newfound love nor the perfect peanut butter cookie, not even a black Labrador puppy, but a most unlikely suspect.
- Byzantium conveys the best in Poly writing - Mustang Daily
Byzantium conveys the best in Poly writingMustang Daily, CA - 2 hours agoAs part of the contest, first-, second- and third-place winners are chosen in poetry and fiction writing, and editors also select their favorites. ...
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