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• Alabama college employees unharmed by letter (AP)
• Budget crisis forces states to spend creatively: Duncan (Reuters)
• Machete used in NJ schoolyard triple slaying shown (AP)
• University to investigate live sex demonstration (Reuters)
• 'Crazy U' Takes on the College Rankings (U.S. News & World Report)
• Live sex show spices up college class in Chicago (AFP)
• NY teen pleads guilty in high school plot (AP)

Alabama college employees unharmed by letter (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - A spokesman says three University of North Alabama employees were not hurt by a threatening letter containing a suspicious white powder that arrived in the mail.

Budget crisis forces states to spend creatively: Duncan (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:29 PM PST Reuters - With some states taking a budget-cutting ax to public school funding, the U.S. education department on Thursday offered some guidance on finding and spending federal money flexibly -- but did not attach any dollars to the advice.

Machete used in NJ schoolyard triple slaying shown (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:30 PM PST AP - A day after a young woman described being slashed by a machete in a schoolyard while three friends were fatally shot nearby, jurors were shown the knife Thursday and were given details of the curious path that landed it in the hands of investigators.

University to investigate live sex demonstration (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PST Reuters - The president of an American university said on Thursday he was launching an investigation into an on-campus presentation of a live sex act performed for students at an after class event.

'Crazy U' Takes on the College Rankings (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:22 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - Andrew Ferguson's new book, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, is a critique of the college admissions process and includes a very large section on the evolution and growing impact of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. Ferguson, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard magazine, writes about his firsthand experience with the world of college admissions through the lens of a parent and a skeptical journalist who asked tough questions as part of his quest to get his son into college.

Live sex show spices up college class in Chicago (AFP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:40 AM PST AFP - No, it wasn't a Monty Python sketch. A human sexuality class really did get a live sex show in an auditorium at Chicago's Northwestern University.

NY teen pleads guilty in high school plot (AP) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:59 AM PST AP - The girlfriend of a New York teenager who had planned a Columbine-style attack on his former Long Island school has acknowledged her role in the aborted plot.

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