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- Is Good Food a Human Right for Prisoners?
- MIT Offers A Really Cool Course – Oh, And It’s Free
- Corinthian Colleges to be monitored by ex-U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald
- Indiana University doctoral student among Malaysia Air dead
- Three months later, body recovered from South Korea ferry
Is Good Food a Human Right for Prisoners? Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:26 PM PDT Since January, at least five appearances by maggots in food or in the kitchen have been reported just in Ohio prisons, according to the records of food service operator Aramark Correctional Services. With prison cafeterias' blotted quality-control history—including recent cases of prisoners being served expired bologna and live maggots—some prisoner advocates say there should be a baseline standard for the food served behind bars, similar to the nutritional standards guiding food service in public schools. "Everyone should have the right to decent food—adequate, nutritious food," says Alex Friedmann, managing editor of Prison Legal News, an independent publication of the Human Rights Defense Center. "It's not just that the [prison] food is bad, which generally it is. |
MIT Offers A Really Cool Course – Oh, And It’s Free Posted: 18 Jul 2014 12:02 PM PDT Many colleges and universities offer free online courses for students, including giants in the higher-education industry like Harvard and Yale. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the OpenCourseWare program allows students to choose from literally thousands of free online courses ranging from business to art. According to Gizmodo, one course of note is MIT's "Documentary of Photography" and "Photojournalism: A History of the World in Motion" course. |
Corinthian Colleges to be monitored by ex-U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald Posted: 18 Jul 2014 11:21 AM PDT
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Indiana University doctoral student among Malaysia Air dead Posted: 18 Jul 2014 09:29 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Dutch doctoral student and former member of the Indiana University rowing team was among the passengers killed when Malaysian airliner went down in Ukraine, the university said Friday in a statement. Karlijn Keijzer, 25, was a doctoral student in the chemistry department in the university's college of Arts and Sciences, had earned a master's degree from the university and was a member of the women's rowing team in the 2011 season, the university said. "The Indiana rowing family is deeply saddened by the news of Karlijn's sudden passing," Indiana head rowing coach Steve Peterson said in a statement. |
Three months later, body recovered from South Korea ferry Posted: 17 Jul 2014 08:19 PM PDT
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