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Facebook Suit: Teens Too Young to Like
Do you "like" Facebook? But really, do you "like like" Facebook? A new lawsuit filed may soon end adolescents ability to "Like" things online. How will the teens ever survive without "Like," a word so crucial to their vernacular and awkward flirting habits? The suit, filed today in Los Angeles County ... Dad buys newspaper ad after daughter breaks curfew
SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) ? A Texas teenager who broke curfew is headed for a reluctant adventure in baby-sitting. Robert Rausch placed an advertisement offering his daughter's free baby-sitting services in the community newspaper in Southlake, a wealthy suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth that is home to business leaders and professional athletes. The ... Over 5,000 anti-school bookmarks found in books at libraries in Dover
By Leslie Modica DOVER ? Local libraries were recently the subject of a deliberate and calculating attack ? of the bookmark variety. Volunteers and staff at the Dover Public Library spent 30 hours in May collecting more than 5,000 bookmarks secretly placed inside books at the library sometime before May. The ... Lower the voting age to 10
By Matt Miller August, 5, 2010 What this country needs is a movement to lower the voting age to 10. Hear me out. Wherever you look, from debt to schools to climate to pensions, the distinctive feature of American public life today is a shocking ... UK child protection database to be switched off
A £235m government database containing the records of England's 11 million children is being switched off. ContactPoint was established in the wake of the Victoria Climbie child abuse case to aid child protection. The report into her death highlighted the need to improve the exchange of information between different agencies working ... US to Adopt Convention on the Rights of the Child?
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community.?We believe we need to take clear action here ... Could a 12-Year-Old Become NASCAR's Best Ever?
The once flourishing sport of NASCAR has struggled in recent years, hurt by the effects of the recession. But there's hope on the horizon, in part from a 12-year-old driver who aspires to be the best ever, as CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor reports. Gray Gaulding is nothing if not focused. ... How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs
His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, "inspired by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs". This is how he did it. The British teen?who lives in Corby, Northamptonshire?got his first computer age seven. Three years later he got a Mac and taught himself web ... Congresswoman aims to stop corporal punishment
(CNN) -- A congresswoman who is fighting to improve public education says that paddling in schools has got to stop. "The bottom line is that if we don't allow beatings in prisons or in mental institutions, then it's time we stop allowing it in our schools," said Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New ... Feds: No charges in Philadelphia school laptop-spying case
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent by Lower Merion School District employees who activated tracking software that took ...
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