S&T architects create a bright and modern interior for a family of two in an area of 235 square meters in Kiev, Ukraine. A young couple wants a light and bright interior, comfortable and functional with two bedrooms and a modern kitchen in the Italian style. The living room has ... Read More »
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Apple Inc said the U.S. government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case after a third party came forward with a solution to crack a different phone belonging to one of the shooters in December’s ... Read More »
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 15 — An Iowa utility company said it was on pace to have wind energy account for 40 percent of the electricity share in the state with a major stimulus package. Utility MidAmerican Energy filed a request with state regulators to build the $3.6 billion Wind ... Read More »
TOKYO – Electronics giant Sony Corp on Sunday said production at its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, southern Japan, remained suspended as it assessed damage from a powerful earthquake. Operations at its image sensor plants in Nagasaki and Oita, also on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, fully resumed, the company ... Read More »
State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) is axing almost 600 jobs in its UK retail bank, according to sources familiar with the situation, in the latest round of job cuts and branch closures at the lender. All the employees impacted work in the bank’s retail network in England and most ... Read More »
Last week I wrote about some of my meandering thoughts about the smorgasbord of teacher leadership initiatives that are popping up across the nation like a game of whack-a-mole. I received many good questions and pushback on Twitter, and have had some great conversations as a result. My fellow blogger ... Read More »
How long does it take before we can effectively judge the success or failure of teacher leadership? What is the timeframe before we are ready to run teacher leadership through the evaluation gauntlet and deem its worth? Last week I was wondering those very things as I read Ross Brenneman’s ... Read More »
Education authorities in Seoul, South Korea, banned corporal punishment at all schools in the capital last week. Teachers there are now prohibited from all forms of corporal punishment, including ordering students to do push-ups, run, hold their arms straight above their heads, and walk in a squatting position called a ... Read More »
TUESDAY, April 12, 2016 — Southern California has cleaner air than it did 20 years ago, and children there may be breathing better because of it, a new study suggests.Researchers found that as the smog over eight Los Angeles-area communities lessened, children became less likely to suffer from bronchitis, congestion ... Read More »
NEW YORK, April 12– Ultrasound may be better than X-rays for imaging children’s lungs for diagnosis because it prevents exposure to radiation, reduces medical costs and cuts the length of time children stay at the emergency room, according to a recent study. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital report in the ... Read More »
Rapping the BCCI and the cricket associations in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra over water wastage when the State is reeling under severe drought, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should ideally be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis. “Only ... Read More »
In order for clinical trials to be worth the time and money, researchers must enroll enough participants to fairly judge the effects of treatments. Nearly a quarter of trials for cancer drugs, however, fail to enroll enough people for reliability, representing a waste of what researchers in a new study ... Read More »
