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News

NY Times Education headlines

NYT > Education
Get Pad and Pen: The School Supply List Is Long Many schools both poor and prosperous are asking parents to purchase more, and more particular, school supplies.
In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns A school board in north-central Texas has drawn attention by letting some teachers carry concealed weapons.
A Georgia School System Loses Its Accreditation Four school board members were removed for ethics violations from the Atlanta area school system — the nation’s first in nearly 40 years to lose its accreditation.
Purdue, Citing Research Misconduct, Punishes Scientist An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan.
Class of 2008 Matches ’07 on the SAT The average scores for the three sections of the SAT were identical for the classes of 2007 and 2008: 502 in the critical-reading section, 515 in mathematics, and 494 in writing.

BBC News

BBC News \| News Front Page \| UK Edition (Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.)
Two bodies found at arson house Two bodies are recovered from the burnt-out home of a millionaire and his family in Shropshire.
Darling defends economy warning Chancellor Alistair Darling says he stands by his comments warning that the UK is facing the worst economic crisis in 60 years.
Cuba braces for deadly hurricane Mass evacuations are under way in Cuba hours before Hurricane Gustav is due to blow in after sowing chaos in the Caribbean.
Boy stabbed to death after party A 16-year-old boy is stabbed to death after an argument at a party, say police.
Dozens injured in Sri Lanka blast A large explosion has struck Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, with the military saying that dozens have been injured.

World Press Review top stories

Top Headlines from World Press Review (World News Review)
Fighting African Poverty, Village by Village Innovative Millennium Villages Project in Bonsaaso, a cluster of poor and remote settlements in Ghana's Ashanti Region, focuses on achieving Millennium goals.
Voice of Power Threatens Voice of Dialogue Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Shocking arrests and mysterious disappearances. Extraordinary renditions. Will these initiatives really make the world a better place or contribute to irreversibly dividing it?
Protests Against Thai Leader Intensify Self-described as "the final war," the protest is the latest effort by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to force the government, led by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, from office.
Searching for Solutions to Mexico's Skyrocketing Violence The escalating violence represents an ugly offensive by Mexican drug gangs retaliating against the government's increased determination to combat drug trafficking and drug-related violence.
Boisterous Bear, Wounded Eagle: U.S.-Russian Tensions From a Post-Communist Perspective You do not have to be a Soviet studies expert (or a post-Communist scholar) to know that the American missile defense shield will create a Russian backlash (as we have seen in Georgia).

Science News Digest from moreover.com

Moreover Technologies - Science news (Science news - more than 340 categories of real-time RSS news feeds)
XELODA Official Site - Sponsored Link Ad - www.xeloda.com Aug 30 2008 10:49AM GMT
NASA Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End Mars Today Aug 30 2008 10:49AM GMT
NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground Mars Today Aug 30 2008 10:49AM GMT
Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars Mars Today Aug 30 2008 10:49AM GMT
NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground Jet Propulsion Laboratory Aug 30 2008 9:38AM GMT

Business News Digest from moreover.com

Moreover Technologies - Top business stories (Top business stories - more than 340 categories of real-time RSS news feeds)
XELODA Official Site - Sponsored Link Ad - www.xeloda.com Aug 30 2008 9:16AM GMT
Darling feels heat over Regus move The Times Aug 30 2008 9:16AM GMT
Machinists union leaders call for Boeing strike BusinessWeek Aug 30 2008 4:17AM GMT
Surge in Natural Gas Cars Has Utah Driving Cheaply New York Times Aug 30 2008 3:42AM GMT
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. New York Times Aug 30 2008 1:07AM GMT

Sports News Digest from moreover.com

Moreover Technologies - Sports: top stories (Sports: top stories - more than 340 categories of real-time RSS news feeds)
XELODA Official Site - Sponsored Link Ad - www.xeloda.com Aug 30 2008 12:09PM GMT
Live: MotoGP qualifying BBC Aug 30 2008 12:09PM GMT
Davenport Fizzles, Then Roddick Supplies Late-Night Sizzle New York Times Aug 30 2008 8:39AM GMT
Dodgers' Scott Elbert has his dream come true Los Angeles Times Aug 30 2008 6:53AM GMT
Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch deny friction after NASCAR bumps Los Angeles Times Aug 30 2008 6:04AM GMT

New Scientist

New Scientist - Latest Headlines (New Scientist - The World's No. 1 Science and Technology News Service)
Facebook application turns users into attackers An application for the popular social networking website can be used to direct a denial-of-service attack against an innocent victim
China quake forces rethink over hazard maps Earthquake risk maps should be redrawn following a reanalysis of the factors that caused the Sichuan quake in May, say geologists
Mars rover clambers out of Victoria Crater NASA's Opportunity rover has emerged from the gaping crater it has explored for nearly a year now it will study rocks called cobbles
Computer meltdowns in space: a short history The virus recently found on a space station laptop is only the latest extraterrestrial computer glitch another was caused by floating urine
Space station computer virus raises security concerns A computer worm found on a station laptop is benign, but its discovery is a 'wake-up call' to fortify computer security in space

Chronicle of Higher Education

Chronicle.com - Today's News (Daily news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students)
Photo Finishes a Presidency, and Illustrates a New Risk Robert A. Paxton's departure from Iowa Central Community College shows the danger for college leaders of being caught in a less-than-exemplary moment.
Publicity About Defaults Steers 2-Year Colleges From Loan Programs Community colleges want reassurance from the Education Department that if they offer their students federally guaranteed loans, they will not be embarrassed by having their default rates published without sufficient context.
Obama Accepts Nomination, Listing Affordable Tuition Among Goals Mr. Obama expressed gratitude for his own opportunity to attend college and said the country has a moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education.
Political Scientists Question the Direction of American Political Studies Political scientists, meeting as the campaign for president moves into high gear, say the academic study of American politics has grown sterile.
Scientists Who Cheated Had Mentors Who Failed to Supervise Them In most cases in which scientific trainees were caught fabricating data, their supervisors had never examined their laboratory results, a new study finds.

Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus Edition

Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus (A roundup of news and opinion at the intersection between IT and academe)
Re-subscribe to a better Wired Campus We now update the Wired Campus RSS feed throughout the day. Please re-subscribe to our new RSS feed at: http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/index.rdf

Nature Publishing Group feeds(lots)

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Technical

JavaRSS - this is Java developer rather than education focused. Also it is an aggregator of feeds rather than a single feed. I do like the idea though. I'm sure people could develop something similar, maybe using an Apache Xindice backend, for their favourite feed collection.

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