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India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer

India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer

It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.

Senh: If they can make it, it would be awesome. As long as it has internet access with 3G and Wifi, it's good enough. We'll see.

 

7th-graders discover mysterious cave on Mars

7th-graders discover mysterious cave on Mars

California 7th graders discovered this Martian pit feature at the center of the superimposed red square in this image while participating in a program that enables students to use the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

 

Man accused of duping Harvard got into Stanford

Man accused of duping Harvard got into Stanford

A Delaware man charged with faking his way into Harvard was accepted at Stanford University after he was kicked out of the Ivy League school, ...

 

National Academic Standards Are Released

National Academic Standards Are Released

The nation’s governors and state school chiefs released final recommendations for what students should master in English and math.

 

Free books block 'summer slide' in low-income students

Free books block 'summer slide' in low-income students

Study shows reading scores improve when kids get a stack of 12 books at the end of the school year.

 

Student rapes schoolmate in hallway

A Savannah High student raped a female schoolmate in a campus hallway during school hours.

 

Woman invented kidnap hoax to avoid telling parents she would not graduate from UCLA, police say

Woman invented kidnap hoax to avoid telling parents she would not graduate from UCLA, police say

Glendale police said a woman invented a kidnapping hoax to avoid telling her parents that she had been lying to them about college.

 

Gun Goes Off Inside Desk of 3rd Grader

Gun Goes Off Inside Desk of 3rd Grader

Fox Charlotte reports that a gun went off inside the desk of a third grader in Charlotte, N.C. It is unclear how the gun went off, but luckily, the bullet missed all 20 students in the classroom and only hit a wall.

 

Virginia lacrosse player charged in athlete's slaying

Virginia lacrosse player charged in athlete's slaying

A senior on the Virginia men's lacrosse team was charged Monday with the slaying of a fellow student on the women's team, stunning ...

 

Pole Dancing at the University of Cambridge Relieves Student Stress

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With final exams looming, many students’ stress levels are unavoidably increasing and the need for relieving that unwanted stress has caused one female Union member of the Cambridge University Society to request a pole-dancing exercise class to Juan de Francisco, a Union Ents Officer.

De Francisco took her request to the Ents Com

 

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