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A Heavy Toll from Disease Fuels Suspicion and Ang

In Middleborough, Massachusetts, a small group of residents of is awaiting a report later this year that could reveal dozens of cases of Lou Gehrig’s disease in a downtown industrial area were caused by pollution. The cases, which state and federal officials call a “disease cluster,” are located within a mile of Everett Square — a neighborhood adjacent to the town’s onetime factory row. The study, financed by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and conducted by state health scientists, will result in the creation of a statewide registry to track cases of the disease, known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Residents have spent years trying to prove that heavy metals and solvents from plating and shoe factories — and the toxic chemical cocktails of other industries — are to blame.

Date Added: 10/19/2007 5:12
Author: shabazza
Document Type: URL

 Bio-Distress
Cyber Crime 2.0 -

In 2007, Online Fraud Got More Targeted and Sophisticated. Security experts say criminals are increasingly trying to ensnare Internet users by lurking on familiar Web sites and using purloined data to craft scam e-mails that are more believable, and thus more likely to entice an unsuspecting user

Date Added: 04/03/2008 2:40
Author: shabazza
Document Type: URL

 Urban Computing
For Consideration in Reauthorizing the No Child L

The UCLA Department of Psychology cites facts. In low performing schools, few students appear ready and able to learn the daily lessons. Many have become disengaged and alienated from classroom learning. Some are misdaiagnosed with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. School improvement guidelines must consider matters other than the instrucitonal component of schooling. Student learning supports have been marginalized and fragmented. Learning Supports encompass many resources, strategies, and practices to address barriers to learning and teaching. There is a clear need to link with other organizations and agencies as needed, and to integrate school and community resources as a comprehensive, multi-faceted cohesive component at every school.

Date Added: 04/26/2007 7:32
Author: shabazza
Document Type: URL

 Community Value Networks
"Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants C

A National Public Radio report says immigrant parents tend to push their children to succeed. Although some immigrants are relatively uneducated themselves, NPR says they are often adept at navigating the system to help their children get ahead. As of 2005, about ¼ of all Americans under 18 who were born in the U.S. had at least one immigrant parent.

Date Added: 09/06/2008 2:54
Author: shabazza
Document Type: URL

 Extreme Diversity
"The Wisdom of Crowds” Excerpt

An excerpt from "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki summarizing experiments to test the theory that groups generally reach better conclusions that any given individual.

Date Added: 01/08/2007 10:09
Author: KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Document Type: URL

 Increasing Economic Stability
"Ties Weak and Strong” Encyclopedia of Community

2003. Karen Cristenson and Kevin Levinson, Eds. Thousand Oaks, Ca. Sage. Entry by Douglas R. White. A review of thinking since the publication of the original, seminal 1973 article by Mark Granovetter entitled “The Strength of Weak Ties.”

Date Added: 12/04/2006 5:42
Author: KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Document Type: URL

 Networking IQ
$20M Donation to Benefit Healthy Schools Program

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a New Jersey philanthropic foundation, is giving $20 million to a program designed to promote healthy eating and exercise in schools in 17 states. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to use the money to help schools in those states attack obesity in children. The Alliance, which is a partnership of The Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, says that some 8,000 schools will be able to get in-person support for their anti-obesity programs by 2010.

Date Added: 08/10/2007 2:19
Author: shabazza
Document Type: URL

 Increasing Chronic Illness
[about.com] 11 Tips for Managing Millenials

11 Tips for hiring, managing, and working with Generation Y

Date Added: 07/11/2008 6:28
Author: grante
Document Type: URL

 Gen Y Attributes
[BoingBoing] Kansas high school bars woman from re

A private high school in Kansas will not allow a woman to be put in a position of authority over its class of boys...

Date Added: 02/18/2008 8:19
Author: grante
Document Type: URL

 Fragmenting Preferences
[BusinessWeek] Study Shows Gap Growing Between Ric

Business Week examines the growing divide in a number of industrialized countries in the context of globalization of the world's economy.

Date Added: 10/21/2008 9:48
Author: grante
Document Type: URL

 Increasing economic instability
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