DES MOINES, Iowa -- In the Story County town of Roland, the new mayor hasn't graduated from high school yet. Sam Juhl, 18, got 48 percent of the vote. He will be sworn in as Roland's mayor in January.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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US: High School Student Wins Mayoral Seat
Sony BMG's Copy-Protecting Watchdog (From the nytimes.com circuits newsletter by David Pogue)
The story goes like this. Starting in June 2004, Sony BMG records began copy-protecting its pop-music CD's. Over the months, the company has used several software schemes for preventing you, the customer, from making illegal copies of its discs. But 20 albums are protected by a scheme devised by a company called First 4 Internet-and […]
US: Student gets $117,500 in website free speech case
A New Jersey school district will pay $117,500 to a student who was punished for creating a website that included critical statements about his middle school.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Newborn babies' first words likely to be "school sucks"
A proposed "national curriculum" for babies and toddlers in England has received a mixed response. Under the Childcare Bill, childminders would teach the curriculum to children "from birth" - with some worrying that it might be too prescriptive.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country. The violence started Oct. 27 among youths in a northeastern Paris suburb angry over the accidental deaths of two teenagers but has […]
God's Politics
A new progressive spiritual alliance wants to give the religious fundamentalists a good spanking. [Alliance site added to the ASD as well -SR]Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Head suspended for 'freeing' girl
A primary school headteacher has been suspended after he forced two boys to free a 10-year-old girl they had trapped in a cupboard.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: School sex survey lawsuit thrown out
A federal appeals court Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by parents outraged that the Palmdale school district in California surveyed their elementary school children about sex. Parents whose students took the survey signed consent forms. But the forms never mentioned sex would be a topic.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Teen Runs For Mayor
Sam Juhl, 18, is running for mayor in Roland -- unopposed. He's the only name on the ballot.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Lots of cheating going on
Examiners say they detected "blatant copying of material from the internet" in some of this year's coursework for GCSE English.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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