2009年10月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:34 PM PDT

A light dusting of snow covers a sculpture entitled Bull in the Burn as a fall storm swept over the Colorado resort town of Vail on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Forecasters predict that heavy snows will blanket Colorado on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large portion of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home from school as more than 2 feet piled up with much more expected.


Ohio universities focusing on advanced energy (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:17 PM PDT

AP - The state is asking eight Ohio universities to share their knowledge about advanced energy in an effort to help the state emerge as a world leader in the field and create a "green-collar" work force, officials announced Wednesday.

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, Grafton High School in Grafton, Mass. is empty after students were released early for the day due to what school officials said was a suspected swine flu outbreak. The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)AP - Across the country schools are closing by the dozen as officials say they're being hit so hard by swine flu that they feel shutting down for a few days is the only feasible option.


Bob Barker donates $1M for animal rights professor (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:33 AM PDT

In this Saturday, April 25, 2009 photo, Bob Barker attends The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at The University of California Los Angeles in Los Angeles, Calif. Former television game show host Bob Barker, who ended episodes of 'The Price is Right' by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury University to establish a professorship on animal rights that he hopes will lead to a full undergraduate degree program. (AP Photo/Katy Winn)AP - Former television game show host Bob Barker, who ended episodes of "The Price is Right" by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury University to establish a professorship on animal rights that he hopes will lead to a full undergraduate degree program.


Sector Snap: For-profit education providers sink (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT

AP - Shares of for-profit education companies tumbled Wednesday a day after Apollo Group Inc., one of the largest and oldest of the companies, said the Securities and Exchange Commission had launched an "informal inquiry" into its revenue accounting practices, its second SEC probe this year.

Feds: Haiti abuse suspect sought boys while in US (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:41 AM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors say a Colorado man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school he founded in Haiti was using his computer while in the United States to search for boys.

Miss. foundation breaks ground on building project (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:29 AM PDT

AP - The Jackson State University Development Foundation, Inc., has broken ground on a multimillion-dollar construction project that will include luxury apartments and retail space.

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