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Florida Lowers Passing Test Grade After students' Scores Drop (?!)
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:30 PM EDT (CNN)
FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Yet another sign that our education system is failing: Florida is lowering the passing grade on the writing portion of a standardized test. Students' 2012 scores plunged on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test writing exam.
Court Docs: Trayvon Martin Shooting 'Ultimately Avoidable by Zimmerman'
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Prosecutors on Thursday made public a trove of evidence used to justify murder charges against Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman, including a police report that concluded "the encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerma …
NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit Ruled a Class Action Suit
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 10:05 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit that alleges the New York police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional and amounts to systemic racial discrimination. Barring an effective appeal on behalf of the city, the deci …
Trayvon Martin Case: Evidence Of Marijuana Found In Martin's Blood
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 7:09 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin's system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, an autopsy report released Thursday shows. Photo indicates media bias in reporting story --->[Photo: spurstalk.com]
How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 5:50 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are affecting residents of an Indian reservation that has been decimated by alcoholism. The reservation is dry, but th …
Mother Sentenced To Jail For 9 Years For the Death Of Her Disabled Daughter In The "Worse Case Of Neglect The County Had Seen"
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 5:14 PM EDT (the Mail online)
The mother of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who weighed 28 pounds when she died has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Angela Norman, 43, was sentenced in a Dayton, Ohio court on Thursday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Her daughter Makayla No …
Why Mitt Romney Is No Fan of Breastfeeding
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 4:59 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Breastfeeding is having another moment. Thanks to Time magazine's creepy cover pic of young mom Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her three-year-old son, the nation has once again gone tits-up over how mothers opt to feed their young. The choice is not an easy one: …
The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 3:17 PM EDT ()
Prosecuting women based on the outcomes of their pregnancies violates their constitutional rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. And yet, this is what is happening. Last week, the Indiana Supreme Court declined to drop feticide and murder charges against a woma …
How Casual Cyber Sex Became My Most Intoxicating Drug | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 2:59 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
I would still have been a sex addict without the Internet, but it’s hard for me to picture because those two tweaky compulsions are so tightly wrapped together for me. I even discovered my sexuality and the World Wide Web at the same time. Online, I wasn’t ov …
Pregnant Woman With Child in the Car Tased Three Times After Being Pulled Over for Speeding
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 2:47 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
What is it with cops and tasers? Why do so many of them seem compelled to use them in highly inappropriate ways? "Highly inappropriate" is about the only way to describe what happened to Malaika Brooks, who was seven months pregnant and driving her kid to school one day in 2004 …
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