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Bringing Schools to the Children
One Sunday morning with two cloth bags "full of fun and magic for children" and an innovative idea, Inderjit Khurana stepped onto the railway platform and began teaching. The idea was extremely simple and remarkably effective: rather than working to get children into the schools, why not just bring the school to them? Within a few months, the 'platform school,' as it became known, had over 100 stu... posted on Jun 12 2003, 940 reads

 


Richmond High student Gustava Bennett-Burrus doesn't do the latest teen dance, the "shakey," and she doesn't carry a backpack with speakers blaring Eminem like the cool kids, but give her a break -- she's 97. It's been nearly nine decades since she dropped out of the fourth grade in a one-room school house in Boley, Okla., to pick cotton on her family's sharecrop farm. She's wished for a high sch... posted on Jun 11 2003, 607 reads

 


Since September, Emily Dubois has been preoccupied with pennies. Pennies in empty milk jugs. Pennies in water bottles. Hundreds of thousands of pennies filling her closet. Yet the Palo Alto High School junior still wants more. Emily is one-third of the way to her goal of collecting one penny for each of the 1.5 million children who some sources estimate died in the Holocaust. ... posted on Jun 10 2003, 637 reads

 


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Speeding Up Mt. Everest
When Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa set out this past spring to set an Everest speed ascent record, little did anyone know he would not only break the late Babu Chirri Sherpa’s Everest speed ascent record of 16 hrs 56, but shatter it altogether with a time of 10 hrs 56 min and 46 sec – 6 hours faster than Babu’s seemingly unbeatable record.... posted on Jun 07 2003, 767 reads

 


In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil. Really. Changing World Technologies claims it can turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year! And people are listening.... posted on Jun 06 2003, 1,596 reads

 


British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has documented on videotape how some dogs appear to anticipate the arrival of their owner. Regardless of the time of day that the owner begins their journey home, some of these dogs appear to sense their human companion coming without receiving any known physical signals, and wait for them next to the door or window.... posted on Jun 05 2003, 1,066 reads

 


The 15-25 year old range has been dubbed "Generation Fix". According to a study last year by CIRCLE, 40% of people between the ages of 15 and 25 volunteered in the past year -- compared with 32 percent of GenXers and 32 percent of baby boomers. The number of students involved in service-related school projects has increased 1,400 percent over the past 15 years to 12.6 million, according to the U.S... posted on Jun 04 2003, 1,048 reads

 


To help bridge the digital divide, lot of Western organizations sent tons of second hand computers to Africa. The UK Centre of International Education now reports that such dumping is proving to be a costly mistake.... posted on Jun 03 2003, 1,305 reads

 

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