| July 26, 2008 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring that students in the state's public schools be taught about global warming.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| September 18, 2007 | - Sherri Shepherd, one of the hosts of “The View,” was criticized for not knowing for sure whether the earth is round.
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AFP
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The Seattle Times
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The Huffington Post
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| September 13, 2007 | -
Yale University exhibited tools used by Ivan Pavlov to measure dog drool, including one saliometer given as a gift to the daughter of a Yale professor.
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Hartford Courant
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| April 13, 2007 | - A leaked, X-rated DVD sent to parents of elementary school students in Illinois featured the principal having sex with a teacher on his desk, next to a pile of standardized tests.
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CBS2Chicago
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| April 13, 2007 | - A study found that students who participated in federally endorsed sexual abstinence
programs were as likely to have sex as those who did not. “This report confirms that these interventions are not like vaccines. You can't expect one . . . small dose to be protective all throughout the youth's high school career,” said the commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau.
| Source:
AP via CNN
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| March 28, 2007 | - Researchers discovered that Canadian
school bullies were forcing their girlfriends to strip online.
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Reuters
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| February 11, 2007 | -
Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president.
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CBS
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| January 10, 2007 | - Members of the Baker's Dozen, an all-male Yale
a cappella group recuperating from injuries they suffered when a gang of prep school students attacked them on New Year's Eve, were asked by police to return to San Francisco to identify their assailants. “The kids are scared shitless,” said a father of one of the singers.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| November 16, 2006 | - Parents in Illinois were lodging complaints against an elementary school library for carrying And Tango Makes Three, a children's book based on a true story about gay male penguins.
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CBS 3
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| November 8, 2006 | - The principal of a high school in North Carolina apologized after an excerpt of a speech by Joseph Goebbels was played over the PA system during a soccer game.
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CNN
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| October 18, 2006 | - A Massachusetts
elementary school
banned
tag.
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CBS News
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Libya announced that it would provide laptop computers for 1.2 million schoolchildren.
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AP via local6.com
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| October 8, 2006 | - A Virginia
biology
teacher was suspended after compelling her students to pose with the bones of a century-old corpse in Pocahontas Cemetery.
| Source:
North Country Gazette
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| October 3, 2006 | - President George W. Bush visited George W. Bush elementary school in Stockton, California, and promised to improve school safety.
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CNN
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CNN
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NBC12
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MSNBC
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Whitehouse.gov
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| July 19, 2006 | - A study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania discovered a positive correlation between education and sunburn.
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Washington Post
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| July 13, 2006 | - A girls' softball coach at Beaver Falls High School in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was in trouble for having sex with a 17-year-old softball player.
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Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times
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| June 28, 2006 | - In Nigeria a professor at Olabisi Onabanjo University was found dead behind Poopola Hospital in Ijebu-Igbo; Professor Oyedola is believed to have been killed by one of two warring campus cults--either the Eiye Confraternity or the Buccaneers.
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Vanguard
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| June 2, 2006 | - In Washington, D.C., a 13-year-old girl won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “Ursprache.”
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ABC News
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| May 1, 2006 | - A 1918 letter emerged that appears to show that the members of the Yale
Skull and Bones society stole the skull of the Apache leader Geronimo from its grave, and may have used it in rituals.
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Yale Alumni Magazine
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| March 19, 2006 | - Tresa Waggoner, an elementary school music teacher in Bennett, Colorado, was suspended from her job after local parents complained that she was a lesbian devil worshiper; the parents drew this conclusion after learning that Waggoner showed her classes a videotape of the opera Faust performed with sock puppets.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| March 9, 2006 | - A sociology professor at Suffolk University, Boston, was suspended after being caught browsing Internet
porn sites while teaching a class; he was unaware that his computer was connected to a display behind him.
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7News Boston
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| February 2, 2006 | - An Arizona State University student was arrested for masturbating in a school library. "To be honest," he explained, "the Internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough."
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Web Devil
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| January 29, 2006 | - A substitute teacher in Santa Cruz, California, was sentenced to a year in jail for filming young boys licking whipped cream off each other's toes. "I used very poor judgment," said the teacher.
| Source:
The Mercury News
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| January 11, 2006 | - A Maryland
school superintendent decided to lift a ban on the book The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things in high-school libraries; the ban remained in effect for middle-school libraries.
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WGAL.com
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| December 28, 2005 | - U.S. school buses were increasingly being plastered with advertisements.
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CBS News
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| December 1, 2005 | - A Jasper County, Georgia, eighth-grader was dismissed from school after he took down a video camera installed in the school's boys' bathroom; it turned out that the camera had been placed there by the school principal so that he could observe the boys.
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WMAZ.com
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| November 30, 2005 | - In Phoenix, Arizona, a 14-year-old freshman at Barry Goldwater High School was arrested for raping a 75-year-old woman.
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AZCentral.com
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| November 18, 2005 | - The Vatican announced that Intelligent Design was not science and did not belong in science classrooms.
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KSAT.com
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| November 4, 2005 | - Forty-seven schoolchildren were stung by beesin Maryland.
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Reuters
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| October 25, 2005 | - In Los Angeles a man dressed as Sesame Street's Elmo was arrested for panhandling.
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ABC News
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| October 20, 2005 | -
Republican groups were calling on the federal government to halt all funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which currently receives $400 million each year in federal funding. "That is enough money," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, "to build 40 elementary schools."
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CBC.ca
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| September 30, 2005 | - During his radio program William Bennett, former U.S. Education Secretary, said, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
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WLTX.com
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| August 22, 2005 | -
Connecticut filed a lawsuit that argues that the Bush Administration's
No Child Left Behind Law is illegal because state and local funds are required to follow the law. "Give up the unfunded mandates," said Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, "or give us the money."
| Source:
AP
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| June 14, 2005 | - A Kansas teenager was in trouble for vomiting on his Spanish teacher.
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Boston.com
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| May 23, 2005 | - In Waxahachie, Texas, the high school student yearbook neglected to include a girl's name in a photo caption, referring to her instead as “Black Girl.”
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AZCentral.com
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| May 12, 2005 | - In Utah, a high school teacher brought his class to see the dissection of a live dog. “I thought,” he said, “that it would be just really a good experience.”
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Local6.com
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| April 29, 2005 | - A middle school in Boulder, Colorado, banned hugging, suggesting that students high-five instead.
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9News.com
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| April 28, 2005 | - A Colorado high school student decided to test Army recruitment policies by telling a recruiter that he had dropped out of high school and was addicted to marijuana. The recruiter told the student how to get a fake diploma over the Internet and instructed him to take a detoxification formula so that he could pass the Army's drug test.
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CBS 4 Colorado
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| April 27, 2005 | - A state representative in Alabama put forward a bill that would prohibit school libraries from purchasing books by gay authors. The measure died when not enough state legislators showed up to vote.
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CBS Evening News
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| April 21, 2005 | - A high school in Pennsylvania prohibited students from carrying any kind of bag aside from lunch bags, which will be inspected.
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WNEP16
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| March 30, 2005 | -
Turkeys attacked elementary school students in Indiana.
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IndyStar.com
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| March 26, 2005 | -
Harvard students were upset that the brand-name cereals in their dining halls had been replaced with generic brands.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| March 25, 2005 | - The National Rifle Association suggested that rampages like the one in which a Minnesota youth killed nine and himself in Minnesota could be stopped if teachers armed themselves.
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Newsday
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| March 23, 2005 | -
Florida lawmakers were considering an Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, intended to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism,” that would allow students to sue teachers who insist that evolution is factual.
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Alligator.org
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| March 23, 2005 | - Senator Bill Frist--a doctor who as a Harvard
medical student adopted pound cats as pets, then killed them to practice his surgical technique--diagnosed Terri Schiavo from afar, suggesting that her condition could improve.
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New York Times
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| March 22, 2005 | - In Minnesota, an overweight loner Chippewa neo-Nazi goth teenager shot and killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, then went to his high school and shot and killed a security guard, five students, a teacher, and himself.
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BBC News
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| March 18, 2005 | - Police in Florida arrested a five-year-old girl at her kindergarten, binding her hands with plastic ties and placing handcuffs around her ankles. The girl, who weighs forty pounds, was upset about some jelly beans. “They set my baby up,” said her mother.
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AP
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| March 8, 2005 | - An Oregon high-school teacher was under investigation for licking the bleeding wounds of his students.
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The Register-Guard
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| February 1, 2005 | -
Evolution was not being taught in many U.S. high schools.
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The New York Times
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| January 13, 2005 | - A federal judge ordered Cobb County, Georgia, schools to remove from biology textbooks all stickers that question the theory of evolution.
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The Guardian
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| December 16, 2004 | -
President Bush made privatizing social security a major priority for his second term, and his daughter Jenna considered becoming a schoolteacher.
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New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | - A report found that a federally funded program to promote abstinence in schools has been teaching students that a 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person," abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, touching a person's genitals can result in pregnancy, and HIV can be spread by sweat and tears. One book preaches the story of a knight who rejects a princess when she becomes too opinionated about how best to slay a dragon. The parable concludes: "Occasional suggestions and assistance may be alright, but too much of it may lessen a man's confidence or even turn him away from his princess."
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Washington Post
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| November 5, 2004 | - An Air National Guard warplane fired its 20-millimeter cannon at an elementary school in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
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New York Times
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| September 30, 2004 | -
Iraqi
schoolchildren were still waiting to start school, which has remained closed because of the ongoing civil war.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 16, 2004 | - A Texas judge found that the state's system of educational funding is unconstitutional.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 30, 2004 | - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that truancy because of fear of schoolyard violence was on the rise.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 7, 2004 | - Governor Jeb Bush was asked to list the angles on a three-four-five triangle, a question that appears on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which high school students must pass to graduate. Bush replied: "I don't know, 125, 90, and whatever remains of 180?"
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 21, 2004 | - A Japanese
teacher forced a student to write an apology in his own blood after he was caught sleeping in class.
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MSNBC
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| June 3, 2004 | -
Swedish teenagers were charged with planning to kill people at their school to commemorate the Columbine massacre.
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New York Times
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| April 21, 2004 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas proposed shifting the burden of school financing in the state from property taxes to sin taxes on gambling, alcohol, and stripping.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - An elementary school in Oklahoma City suspended 125 of its 136 sixth graders for raising hell during lunch.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 9, 2004 | -
UCLA apologized for selling off body parts of people who donated their bodies to science.
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MSNBC
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| February 23, 2004 | - U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige said that the National Education Association is a "terrorist organization" because it opposes the president's education policies, and
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CNN
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| January 22, 2004 | -
Rwanda's former minister for higher education was given a life sentence for genocide.
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Al-Jazeera
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| January 8, 2004 | -
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was chased from a building in Leipzig by a mob of student demonstrators chanting "First education, then games!"
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BBC
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| November 13, 2003 | - Twenty-six people were killed in the car bombing of the Italian paramilitary headquarters in Nasiriya; seventeen Italian military policemen died along with nine Iraqis, including three ten-year-old schoolgirls who happened to be driving by in a minibus.
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New York Times, Nelson Report
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| October 23, 2003 | - Six English schoolboys were hospitalized after it was learned they had taken Viagra during lunch; "by the the time the afternoon lessons began," said a source, "there was no hiding what they had done."
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Reuters
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| October 13, 2003 | - A Muslim girl in Oklahoma was suspended from school after she refused to take off her head scarf.
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CNN
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| October 4, 2003 | -
Schwarzenegger was also trying to explain comments he made years ago about his admiration for Adolf Hitler: "I admired Hitler for instance because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on."
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New York Times
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| September 29, 2003 | - The Bush Administration relaxed regulations governing nursing homes so that people with only one day of training can feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
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New York Times
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| September 26, 2003 | - and an eighth-grade North Carolina boy fired two shots at school but hurt no one.
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Associated Press
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| September 25, 2003 | - The recording industry let it be known that it was promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum for the nation's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work has been copied on the Internet.
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New York Times
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| September 24, 2003 | - A 16-year-old boy in Spokane, Washington, was wounded by police officers after he barricaded himself in a classroom with a pistol;
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 8, 2003 | -
President George W. Bush made a televised address to the nation and declared that Iraq was now the "central front" in the war on terrorism.
He called for national resolve and national sacrifice and said that he will ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency funds for the occupation.
It was noted that this new request, which comes on top of $79 billion already approved, will probably push the current budget deficit up to $600 billion. Howard Dean said the speech, which made no mention of Osama bin Laden, was "outrageous" and said it reminded him of Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
Senator Bob Graham observed that Bush now wants to spend more on Iraq this year than the federal government will spend on education.
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New York Times
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| August 29, 2003 | - A survey of women who graduated this year from the United States Air Force Academy found that almost 12 percent had suffered rape or attempted rape at the school.
Seventy percent had experienced sexual harassment.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 7, 2003 | - Seven Iraqi
policemen who had just completed an American training course were killed and 50 were injured by a bomb as they marched down the street as part of their graduation ceremony.
| Source:
Independent
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| July 3, 2003 | - A group of children in Oslo, Norway, found a human skull in their kindergarten's sandbox.
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Nettavisen
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The Bush Administration was planning to reinterpret federal law to permit the funding of single-sex schools.
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| December 11, 2001 | - Two 17-year-old lesbians in Dover, New Hampshire, were named class sweethearts in their high school yearbook after the superintendent overruled a principal who had disqualified the couple.
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| December 4, 2001 | - A former assistant director called Ashcroft's tactics “ridiculous” and “the Perry Mason School of Law Enforcement.” Robert Durst, a fugitive millionaire from New York, was arrested in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after he was caught shoplifting a Band-Aid for a cut under his nose, a newspaper, and a chicken salad hero with roasted peppers.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Afghan women returned to school, and dervishes were whirling once again in Kabul.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Five young cousins walking to school near their refugee camp in Gaza were killed by a bomb that was set by an Israeli special forces unit.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Three students in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were charged with plotting a massacre at their high school; they wanted it to be “bigger than Columbine.” An Illinois man ran amok in a mall: he set himself on fire, shouted “Freedom and liberty for all!” and started throwing flaming objects at shoppers.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Alabama's board of education
voted to put a sticker with a disclaimer on biology textbooks stating that “evolution is a controversial theory.”
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| November 6, 2001 | - Arapahoe County, Colorado, officials were planning to prosecute a 10-year-old boy for putting white powder in a film canister so he could be a hero for finding anthrax at his school.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Germany gave its 400,000 prostitutes working rights, including the right to unemployment benefits, job training, health insurance, and a pension.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Pentagon sources said the plane was hit by a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, apparently by accident, during training exercises with Russia.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Yuppies in London will be offered free massages and salsa lessons.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Afghanistan's leading clerics said they would try to persuade Osama bin Laden to leave their country voluntarily, an offer that was quickly scorned by the White House. There was a report from Islamabad that bin Laden was last seen in a training camp outside Kabul, just before he rode off into the desert on the back of a horse.
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| September 11, 2001 | - In Chappaqua, New York, the parents of a high school senior were in trouble for hiring a stripper to perform at a party filled with students; when police arrived the stripper was naked, on her back, performing a lewd act, possibly with an object.
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| September 11, 2001 | - After much hullabaloo, the delegates who remained at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance agreed to condemn the old European slave trade and to express concern about the “plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation.” After two days of throwing stones at Catholic schoolgirls who were on their way to school, Protestants in Belfast decided to throw a pipe bomb.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Federal authorities accredited the Astrology Institute of Phoenix, Arizona, where students may now receive federal grants and loans to take master classes on asteroid goddesses.
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| August 21, 2001 | - Magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal were carrying advertisements for drugs such as Ritalin in their back-to-school issues.
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| August 21, 2001 | - A new school for gladiators opened in Rome.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
The Day My Bum Went Psycho, a children's book by Andy Griffiths, was removed from a literacy campaign by Australian
education officials, who said that the book, which includes a character called the Great Unwiped Bum, was inappropriate. “It's just a piece of nonsense to entertain children,” the author told reporters. “It's just that bums are attempting to take over the world.”
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| August 14, 2001 | - A family of five died in Pakistan when a bomb blew up a school bus.
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| August 7, 2001 | -
President Bush told the National Urban League that education is important. “An equal society,” he said, “begins with an equally excellent schools.”
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| August 7, 2001 | - After two weeks of flying lessons, a Pizza Hut employee took off in an airplane from the Florida Keys on his first solo flight and ended up in Cuba, where he suffered a “hard landing” and was hospitalized.
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| July 17, 2001 | - The air force decided not to retrieve a 7,600 pound nuclear bomb that was dumped off the coast of Georgia in 1958 after a B-47 bomber collided with another plane during training; the air force claims that the bomb is safe.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
English students at Cambridge University were asked in a final exam to analyze the following lines from a 1979 Bee Gees song: “It's tragedy . . . Tragedy when you lose control and you got no soul, it's tragedy.” Professor John Kerrigan, chairman of the examination board, defended the inclusion of the Bee Gees: “There are elements to the Bee Gees songs that could have directed you to the great central canonical texts,” he said. “The line in the Bee Gees song where he sings 'the feeling's gone and you can't go on' is a fair summary of the end of King Lear.”
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| June 5, 2001 | - Billy Barnes, an eight-year-old Canadian boy who was suspended from school for pointing a chicken finger at another child and saying “Bang,” was declared innocent by his local school board.
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| May 29, 2001 | - An honors student in Fort Myers, Florida, was suspended and banned from her graduation after a school
security guard found a kitchen knife in her car; the young woman, who spent the weekend in jail on a felony weapons-possession charge, tried to explain that the knife was left there accidentally after she moved house over the weekend.
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| May 15, 2001 | - Two Jewish teenagers who skipped school and went for a hike in the West Bank were found dead in a cave, their heads crushed by rocks.
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| May 8, 2001 | - “I don't get it,” said Governor Jeb Bush, after he was criticized for allowing nepotistic appointments in the Florida Department of Education. “What's the point?”
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| April 24, 2001 | - The parents of the Colombine High School killers settled a lawsuit for $2.5 million with the families of victims.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police near Savannah, Georgia, raided the homes of 11 middle-school
children and discovered firearms, satanic and Nazi posters, and bomb recipes, but no bombs.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Japan approved a new history textbook that, according to critics in China and elsewhere, fails adequately to criticize Japanese conduct in World War II.
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| April 10, 2001 | - A 13-year-old boy in Queens, New York, was arrested after he took a stun gun to school; he and his friends used it on one another, inflicting minor burns.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Elizabeth Bush, a 14-year-old girl who shot a classmate in the shoulder, was remanded to a psychiatric ward; she claimed that she wanted only to scare her victim.
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| April 10, 2001 | - An Algerian who tried to smuggle explosives into the United States from Canada was convicted of “an act of terrorism transcending a national boundary.” The Bush Administration proposed dropping a program of random salmonella testing of ground beef destined for school lunches; the public was not amused, and the secretary of agriculture withdrew the proposal.
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| March 27, 2001 | - A new member of the hominid family was christened “flat-faced man of Kenya.” Arkansas legislators were debating whether to ban the teaching of evolution and radio-carbon dating techniques; a proposed bill would require teachers to tell students to mark “false evidence” or “theory” in their books next to discussions of evolution.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Another teenager shot up a school in California.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji apologized for the school explosion that killed 38 young children who were making fireworks.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A fourteen-year-old girl, who was said to be a victim of teasing, shot up her school in Pennsylvania, hitting one girl, a cheerleader and possibly one of her tormentors, in the shoulder.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Forty-one young children in China who were busy making firecrackers to raise money for their school were blown to bits when their gunpowder exploded and destroyed their school.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Other officials admitted that “every school in every village and every county” in that region makes fireworks.
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| March 6, 2001 | - The school superintendent of Mobile, Alabama, proposed doing away with all extracurricular activities, including football, after the state imposed mandatory budget cuts. All Alabama was aghast.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
President Bush went to Crawford, Texas, for a visit and attended a party in his honor for about fifteen minutes, where he made a few brief remarks: “Home is important,” he said. “It's important to have a home.” The President announced that among government agencies the Department of Education would receive the largest budget increase.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
School officials in Virginia Beach were paying students to turn in their classmates for drug offenses.
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| February 20, 2001 | - A Virginia state senator complained that “spineless pinkos” in the House of Delegates education committee were ruining his efforts to require that public school children recite the pledge of allegiance every morning.
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| February 20, 2001 | - The Kansas state board of education
voted to restore the teaching of evolution in the public schools.
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| February 6, 2001 | - A crazed man attacked a kindergarten in Pennsylvania with a machete, injuring five children, a teacher, and the school principal.
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| December 19, 2000 | - A federal judge upheld the University of Michigan's affirmative-action admissions policy.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, recommended sending international monitors to the West Bank and Gaza, saying that life for Palestinians under the Israeli occupation was “dehumanizing.” The Israeli government issued a report claiming that Palestinians and not Israeli defense forces actually shot and killed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durah as he cowered with his father; the report, which relied heavily on civilians with no training in ballistics, was widely ridiculed. Israel's daily paper Ha'aretz wrote: “It is hard to describe in mild terms the stupidity of this bizarre investigation.”
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| December 5, 2000 | - Parents of the teen killers of Columbine High School offered a $1.6 million settlement to relatives of victims who are suing for damages.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Terrorists bombed a school
bus filled with children of Israeli settlers; two adults were killed and several children were dismembered.
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| November 28, 2000 | - American educators were debating whether to eliminate dodge ball from the physical education curriculum; critics charged that a game involving “human targets” was inappropriate in a modern school.
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| November 14, 2000 | - South African television broadcast a 1998 training video showing black prisoners being mauled repeatedly by police
dogs as they begged for mercy; six white policemen were arrested shortly thereafter.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Ralph Nader prevented Al Gore from winning a clear victory in the U.S. presidential election. Although Gore won a popular majority nationwide, the Electoral College outcome awaited a decision in the contested Florida vote, where widespread “irregularities” occurred; most commentators were pleased to believe that the irregularities were the result of mere incompetence and stupidity in the state governed by Jeb Bush.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Senator Hillary Clinton called for the abolition of the Electoral College.
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| November 7, 2000 | - A fifteen-year-old boy with a loaded 9mm pistol took a pregnant teacher and eighteen other children hostage in a Dallas school; police saved the day.
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| October 31, 2000 | - State agricultural agents were storming homes in Florida and chopping down citrus trees in an effort to eradicate the citrus canker virus; Agriculture Secretary Bob Crawford ordered sensitivity training to help soothe homeowners who were upset at having their property destroyed.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Admissions officials at a meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling said they were considering affirmative action for men due to declining male enrollments.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The New York City Board of Education unveiled a plan to distribute 750,000 laptops to every child in the system above grade 3; the plan, which would cost $900 million dollars, would be underwritten by technology companies wishing to expand their markets and by selling advertising on a special Web portal for students.
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| September 19, 2000 | - An education advocacy group warned that spending money on computers and Internet connections for schools is a big waste of money with no demonstrable educational benefit.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Elián González appeared once again on the front page of newspapers; it was his first day of school; he recited a pledge that included the line: “Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che!” One wire service noted that Elián was “arguably Cuba's most famous boy.”
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| August 29, 2000 | - A crowd of 4,500 spontaneously stood up, held hands, and recited the Lord's Prayer before a high school
football game in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, an action that was repeated at football games across the South.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Colombian troops attacked and killed a group of eight- to ten-year-old children who were on a school hike.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Some 2,000 local Chinese
Communist Party Secretaries were recalled for further indoctrination and training.
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| August 15, 2000 | - Charles Schwab, the broker, announced that he was dyslexic; he said that he did not consider his condition a learning disability, but rather a learning difference.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Voters in the Kansas Republican primary selected pro-evolution candidates for the state school board, ensuring thereby that the state's current science standards, which for the last three years have required the teaching of creationism in the schools, will be overturned.
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| August 1, 2000 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reelected in what he called a “mega-election”; Chavez vowed to complete his peaceful social revolution against Venezuela's “rancid oligarchy” by “liquidating our adversaries from the field of battle.” Classes resumed in Myanmar, almost four years after SLORC, the country's military junta, banned higher education.
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| July 25, 2000 | - The Iranian
education minister announced that henceforth school girls would be allowed to wear “bright, happy colors such as light blue, beige, pink, light green and yellow.”
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| July 25, 2000 | - Three families of Columbine shooting victims sued school employees for failing to prevent the massacre.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A thirteen-year-old boy in Renton, Washington, stood up on a table in his school cafeteria and fired a shot into the ceiling; he wore black clothing and had dyed blue the tips of his blond hair.
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