School Survival

SALT LAKE CITY --Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day."It's not that I run around scared all day long, but if something happens to me, I do want to […]

Teacher 'tricked into sex' by penis cream treatmentA Syrian-born airline pilot allegedly tricked a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest into having sex with him by pretending he had to administer ointment on the end of his penis, a jury heard yesterday (Tuesday).Fadi Sbano, 38, even pretended to know a gynaecologist who advised him on how often to […]

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will picket the funerals of the 32 victims of the shooting spree at Virginia Tech.The church are notorious for their anti-gay views, and often protest at the funerals of American military personnel killed in Iraq."The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his […]

While mystery surrounds the apparent suicide pact of Melbourne teenagers Stephanie Gestier and Jodie Gater, attempts to blame the 'emo' subculture - based on overtly emotional and angst-ridden rock and its punk-gothic fashion - appear baseless.Most of the music references on Jodie's page are to rap and R&B artists, including Beyonce and the Black Eyed […]

(AP) NEW DELHI Teachers in a village school in western India sprinkled cow urine on several low-caste students to purify them, a news report said Saturday.Sharad Kaitade, a new upper-caste headmaster at a school in Surewada village in Maharashtra state, allegedly ordered a few teachers to hold a special prayer ceremony and purify the school […]

Many of you have been following the story of Melissa Busekros, who was taken from her home by police on February 1, 2007, just because her family homeschooled her.On this past Monday, her 16th birthday, Melissa determined that she would decide for herself where she would live.In the early morning hours of Monday, April 23, […]

Professor gets fired for re-enacting the Virginia TEch shootings in a class discussion.A professor has been fired from his job at a Catholic college in Boston after leading his class in a discussion about the shootings at Virginia Tech two days afterward.Financial accounting professor Nicholas Winset pretended to shoot some students during the discussion at […]

Gun control has reached absurd limits in America. In Michigan, an 8-year-old boy is being prosecuted for pointing a toy gun at three other youngsters and threatening to shoot them. If this had happened in my day, every boy would have spent his youth in prison.We played guns when we weren't playing baseball or football. […]

Talk about piercing the veil.A group of angry ex-models is bashing the SuicideGirls alt-porn empire, saying its embrace of the tattoo and nipple-ring set hides a world of exploitation and male domination.The women are spreading their allegations through the blogosphere, raising the hackles of the SuicideGirls company, which has until now enjoyed a reputation as […]

A breakthrough drug can erase your worst memories -- but not everyone thinks you have the right to take it.Late last November, an episode of 60 Minutes examined the potentiality of a prescription drug called propranolol. Reported by Lesley Stahl, this was the first time I'd ever heard of propranolol, and I haven't seen any […]