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• Barney Frank Makes Awkward Trayvon Martin 'Hoodie' Joke During Commmencement
• Insight: China rises in science, but equation may have flaws
• Schools Barred From Handcuffing Students

Barney Frank Makes Awkward Trayvon Martin 'Hoodie' Joke During Commmencement Posted: 28 May 2012 01:47 PM PDT Barney Frank, the retiring Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, never known to speak anything but his mind, used his address to graduating seniors at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Sunday to make a cringe-inducing joke about hoodies. "I do want to acknowledge a man who...

Insight: China rises in science, but equation may have flaws Posted: 28 May 2012 01:49 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Deliang Chen started his scientific career in China in the early 1980s, part of the first generation to follow the vicious anti-intellectual years of the Cultural Revolution. "There was a big desire to help those with degrees," says Chen of those days. "You could become a researcher with a master's degree. There were no PhDs." China has changed since then, of course. The country has increased its spending on science at a blistering rate and now publishes the second most scientific papers in the world after the United States. ...

Schools Barred From Handcuffing Students Posted: 27 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed to handcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court. Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center,...

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