As governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, Jeb Bush championed school choice. His first year in office he created a program that offered vouchers to students in failing schools. The program successfully boosted student achievement until it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2006. Two other Bush-supported programs — one that offers Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Big Government Discovery Date : 19/01/2011 21:00 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Has Apple gotten over its porn hang-up? Hugh Heffner set off a wave of speculation by suggesting as much on Twitter today. “Big news! Playboy—both old & new—will be available on iPad beginning in March,” he tweeted, according to Apple Insider . Playboy already has a censored app, but…
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A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies that prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors. (Jan. 19)
Continue reading …A Philadelphia doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants, and poor women in a “house of horrors” clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made…
Continue reading …Funny thing happens when you become House speaker: Everyone starts parsing your every move for hidden meaning. Such is the case with John Boehner’s rejection of President Obama’s invite to the state dinner tonight with Hu Jintao. For the record, that’s the third official presidential invitation he’s declined, including receptions…
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President Barack Obama has told US and Chinese business leaders that he wants specific ideas on how to remove trade barriers and protect intellectual property. (Jan. 19)
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Ah, there we go. After a bit of a false start , Boxee’s rolling out Vudu to the Boxee Box today — you can either hold tight for the auto update in the next 24 hours, or trigger the manual update in Settings. Vudu’s offering new users who sign up on the Boxee Box a $5.99 credit, which is just one cent short of three $2-for-2-nights Vudu HDX rentals, so that’s very clever. Vudu remains Vudu — 1080p/24 video, 5.1 audio — but we’ll obviously give it a look on the Box to check it out. As for other improvements, there are quite a few; highlights include better browser performance with HTTPS support, a sorting option to ignore “the” or “a” in titles, more deinterlacing controls, a whole host of bug fixes, and quite a bit more. Not bad — we’ll let you know if we discover anything crazy. PR and the full changelog after the break. Continue reading Vudu arrives on the Boxee Box, along with a host of big fixes Vudu arrives on the Boxee Box, along with a host of big fixes originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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photo via flickr The tone in Washington and in the mainstream media has changed, right? Pundits say we are moving toward a higher level of discourse. But what happens when facts don’t matter, and history is re-written to fit an ideology? Take two examples from the past few days on Fox. In the first, Fox’s Martha MacCallum, on a segment dedicated to President Obama’s views on business, told former NY Governor George Pataki that “it is not customary for the EPA to tell car companies how to run their business.” Of course, the EPA has been do… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Gabrielle Giffords will be released from the hospital on Friday, heading instead to the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Politico reports. The center specializes in brain injury recovery. Giffords’ mother sent out an excited email today, telling friends that Giffords was recovering so well…
Continue reading …Yoga for Unity: Can Sun Salutations Resolve Tensions in Post-Conflict Areas?
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Image: Yoga For Unity It’s hard to picture some of the most impoverished, and at one point violence-prone, regions in Kenya being turned into yoga studios, but that’s what Yoga For Unity aims to do—and is starting to make happen. On December 18th, yogis in LA, London and Kenya took up their mats in public places—Yoga Flash Mobs—in support of The Africa Yoga Project, which is trying to use yoga to heal tribal boundaries in Kenya. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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