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Kansas City Plans Massive School Closures as Budget FixThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7:49PMFacing a $50 million deficit, the Kansas City, Mo., school board voted this week to close 29 of the city's 61 public schools. Ray Suarez talks to Superintendent John Covington about the board's decision.

Keeping the taps flowingThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:04PMTENS of thousands of people in the northern part of Seremban, Negri Sembilan, have been suffering from poor water supply for weeks. And then, last week, the authorities finally decided to put the entire area under 12-hour rationing.

Keeping the taps flowingThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:50PMThe dry season has exposed the urgent need for the state and federal governments to re-look their policies on how to ensure continuous and sustainable clean water supply

"The Madam Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part Three "Women in the Wild: Changing the Culture of Western Science ...Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:25PMThis is part three of a multi-part presentation of a sample chapter from a forthcoming book, The Madam Curie Complex. Part One can be found here . Part Two can be found here . Recently I was approached with an offer to share with my readers a sample chapter from a forthcoming book called The Madam Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science . A caveat: I have not read the whole book ...

Quinn seeks income tax hike for schoolsWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7:40PMCalling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just 1 percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education.

4 options identified to solve power crisisTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:11PMMANILA -- The government is considering four measures to address the country’s power crisis without Congress going into a special session and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo using her emergency powers. read more

Two die in canal after crashSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 3:28PMTwo dead after collision sends vehicle into canal

Two die in crash after car runs stop signSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 11:43PMA day of fun, watching cars speed through Auto Club Famoso Raceway, turned into tragedy Saturday night when a driver of a Chrysler PT Cruiser ran a stop sign just a few miles south of the track, slammed into an SUV and sent it into a canal. Two people trapped inside died as it submerged just after 6 p.m. at the intersection of Lerdo Highway and Zerker Road in Shafter. The driver escaped injured ...

Getting endangered frogs to mate? Just chillSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 2:18AMHow’s this for a little romance? Researchers at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research have stuck two dozen endangered frogs in refrigerators in hopes of getting them to breed when they warm up.