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The Epic Struggle of A Trapped Student

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(GAZA) - Last night, I had a dream that I was running, running and running, and I kept running till I glanced an emergency exit.

Though I cannot remember whether I made my way out, I woke up feeling breathless. Strangled. Suffocated. I cannot even find a better word to describe that feeling, but I think it would suffice to say I woke up to another morning in Gaza! Every night I sleep hopefully that tomorrow is a “better” day only to have a “bitter” one instead. My mornings in Gaza are as salty as the tap water I wash –or rather taint– my face with.

TST Deputies to Focus Enforcement on School Zones - Drivers Reminded to use Caution

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Marion County Sheriff's Office Traffic Safety Team wants to remind drivers that the end of summer and opening of school is right around the corner.

Beginning today, drivers can expect to see children and teenagers walking and driving to and from schools.

Warner Pacific College Offers Oregon`s First Social Entrepreneurship Major

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Committed to developing young leaders who work toward positive change in the city, Warner Pacific College has launched a new degree program, the Bachelor of Science in Social Entrepreneurship.

New Slant on Social Studies Can Both Entertain and Educate

In encouraging student interaction on the process, we reinforce facts. We offer a bit of entertainment. No longer are we preoccupied by data alone. We give vivid meaning to the words of the textbook.

(SALEM) - By any other name, it's still called "boredom".

Attempting to spoon-feed middle schoolers in Social Studies can prove toxic if the emphasis is on absorbing and repeating dates and places. The conceptual part of human cause-and-effect is sometimes presented as an afterthought.

Six Things to Know Before Shark Week

On July 30, nonprofit shark research group OCEARCH and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) began the most ambitious great white shark-tagging mission undertaken in history.

(STATE COLLEGE, PA AccuWeather.com) - Before you dive into Shark Week on the Discovery Channel (Aug. 4 - 11), check out six things you may not know about sharks.

From anti-shark wetsuits to "Sharknado," you don't have to wait to find out what's new in the watery world of sharks.

Do We Want School or Education?

In essence, schools are designed to teach a disintegrated set of 'knowledge' and skills that are useful to those businesses and corporations which provide employment, however menial, in the mainstream economy.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - As our world continues to unravel in response to the impact of our uneconomic activities on ecological systems, it is obviously worth asking searching questions about the nature of modern society.

By doing this we can make intelligent decisions about the direction in which we should move as we thoughtfully respond to the interrelated crises we face.

International Tour of Historical Buddha Relics Visits Eugene

“The very name ‘Maitri’, that’s loving-kindness. Now in today's world, we really need the promotion of Maitreya, Maitri, loving-kindness.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

(EUGENE, OR) - This is a rare opportunity to view these sacred relics, which were found among the cremation ashes of these Buddhist masters. They resemble beautiful, pearl-like crystals called 'ringsel'.

Buddhists believe relics embody the master’s spiritual qualities of compassion and wisdom and are deliberately produced by the master at his death.

Are Palestinian Students in Lebanon Being Pressured to Choose Kalashnikovs Over College?

Outrageously, and in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and fundamental fairness, one of the very few “legal” jobs being allowed for Palestinians today in Lebanon, are as hired gunmen.

(BEIRUT) - Ein el Helwe Palestinian camp -- The choice for many Palestinian young men in Lebanon has come down to guns or education.

By force of Lebanese law and under threat of prison for violators, Palestinians are denied the elementary civil rights to work in more than 50 professions and are barred by a 2001 racist law from them or their families, more than six decades living as refugees in Lebanon, from even owning a home.

A Future for Online Learning

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.--Rabindranath Tagore

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - MOOC. That's not a noisy cow. It's the latest rage in American online education.

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the new kid on the block. MOOCs have already developed both enthusiastic fans and stern critics.

Circumcision From the Perspective of Protecting Children

I was shocked. I realized that the Jewish motivation for circumcision was diminishing sexual pleasure, the same motivation as the one behind female genital cutting.

(TEL AVIV) - My name is Eran Sadeh. I am Israeli. I am Jewish. I was born 43 years ago in Tel Aviv, a healthy baby with a perfect body.

8 days after I was born one man held my tiny legs down while another man cut a part of my penis off with a knife.