2014年11月11日星期二

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Army trauma expert quit after admitting PhD fraud

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 10:37 AM PST

This is an undated photo of Amy Apodaca, a statistician at an Army research lab who did not earn the advanced degrees she had been claiming. She quit in January after her bosses confronted her. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army statistician obtained a security clearance and worked for years on sensitive battlefield trauma research while lying about holding advanced degrees, the Army has acknowledged.


Grief, rage at 36-year sentence for ferry captain

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 06:04 AM PST

Relatives of the nine missing passengers of the sunken ferry Sewol cry during a news conference at a gym on South Korea's southwestern island of Jindo, where they have been staying at since the April 16 sinking of ferry Sewol, in Jindo, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. A South Korean court on Tuesday handed a 36-year prison sentence to the captain of a sunken ferry, saying he was professionally negligent and abandoned his passengers during the disaster in April that killed more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Park Chul-hong) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Enraged parents wept and screamed as a judge sentenced a South Korean ferry captain to 36 years in prison Tuesday for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.


Portland schools urged to scrap transfers to boost racial diversity

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:11 AM PST

By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - A citizen's group in Portland, Oregon, said on Monday the city should drop policies allowing students to transfer public schools, saying it is making the schools less racially diverse and poorer. "It's mostly white, mostly middle-class families, transferring out of schools that have students of color," said Kali Thorne Ladd, a member of the group which had been asked by educators to evaluate Portland Public Schools transfer policies. ...

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