A 10-year-old school boy committed suicide by jumping from his 19th floor apartment here after his parents banned him from playing computer games.Andrei Smirnov, a class three student, jumped to his death yesterday after receiving the wrath of his parents due to bad conduct in school and a poor performance in studies.The boy's class teacher […]
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10-yr-old commits suicide after parental ban on computer games
High School Teacher Makes Parents do the Same Homework as their Child
The parents of Damion Frye's ninth-grade students are spending their evenings this fall doing something they thought they had left behind long ago: homework.So far, Mr. Frye, an English teacher at Montclair High School, has asked the parents to read and comment on a Franz Kafka story, Section 1 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" […]
UK: 17-year-old student arrested for possessing a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook"
A British teenager who is accused of possessing material for terrorist purposes has appeared in court.The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.It is alleged he had a copy of the "Anarchists' Cookbook", containing instructions on how to make […]
Halloween banned because one guy dressed as Hitler
Halloween is banned at a Brooklyn high school - and Hitler's to blame.A year after Walter Petryk, 17, came to school in a fuhrer-style mustache and Nazi uniform, Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences sent home a letter on Thursday banning Halloween costumes - and Petryk is peeved.Petryk - a senior who has already […]
UK: Genius spends
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Wishes come true on Cherry Hill man's Web site
What does a National Guard soldier who lost his contact lenses in a sandstorm in Kuwait have in common with a bankrupt mom from South Jersey who needs new tires on her car?They both made wishes on the Internet. Both wishes came true. And in both cases, the genie was a 36-year-old Cherry Hill man.Dave […]
Idyllic childhoods of CEOs reconsidered
The USA Today article, "CEOs Often Spanked as Kids," by Del Jones, (10/10/06), is significant for what it does not mention as much as for what it does. A presupposition of the article is that CEOs are successful human beings, perhaps among the most successful. However, that is, at best, a dubious assumption.The Canadian forensic […]
Student's wrist broken for dropping cake
School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.The incident occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale and was caught on a cell phone camera […]
Record companies win music sharing trial
DULUTH, Minn. - The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for sharing copyrighted music online.This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is […]
A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as […]
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