This may be hard to believe, but this is an issue a a high school in Memphis is trying to resolve by educating teens with unwanted pregnancies. With in a school year at Frayser High School, there are approximately 90 girls that are pregnant or have already had a baby. This odd situation has raised alerts to the education system ... Read More »
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Wikipedia turn 10!
Wikipedia turns 10 today. The popular site that is threatening the very existence of a library in your area has completed 10 years of online service. The free collaborative encyclopedia’s growth over the last decade into the fifth most visited Internet site in the world, of course, indicates how much more it’s become than that. Wikipedia, run by the nonprofit ... Read More »
Critic’s Choice Movie Awards 2011 Winners List
Awards season is ramping up, and on Friday night (January 14), it was the critics’ turn to name their picks for the greatest Hollywood achievements of the past year. A-listers from Steven Spielberg to Warren Beatty were in the building for the 16th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, broadcast live on VH1, which honored hit flicks like “Alice in Wonderland” ... Read More »
Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Ruled By ‘The Social Network,’ ‘Inception’
Before the folks behind the 2011 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on VH1 dished out their choices for the best flicks of 2010, they chose to spoof them first. The guys of “Jackass” kicked off the festivities Friday night (January 14) with their own kooky rendition of the dream drama “Inception,” pretending to plant the idea in Steve-O’s head to bungee-jump ... Read More »
Touched By an Angel Star Dead at 47
He was Touched By an Angel. Now he’s among them. John Dye, who starred as the Angel of Death in the long-running CBS show, passed away Monday at the age of the 47. But what took the actor’s life at such a young age? According to medical examiners, while no cause of death has yet been declared, they believe heart ... Read More »
Bank of America Website Down!
Bank of America’s website has been down most of the morning and there’s no sign of any progress towards restoring the site. The bank is responding to users about the problem on Twitter via @BofA_Help. The website hasn’t been responding for about 6 hours for some users. A BofA spokeswoman has said the problems began for the bank’s website at ... Read More »
Feds want to overhaul school lunches
Your School lunch might actually get better, keep your fingers crossed! Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday proposed overhauling the nutrition guidelines for public school meals for the first time since 1995, when Americans were mostly alarmed by the fat content of food. The proposed rules are far more wide-ranging and would gradually reduce sodium, limit starchy vegetables, ban most ... Read More »