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Medical Marijuana 101: You Can’t Smoke That On Campus

Medical marijuana is legal in 16 states, and that number is expected to grow. But these state laws put colleges in a bind. That’s because under federal law, marijuana is still illegal. So colleges that let students make use of their pot prescription pot on campus risk losing their federal funding. For 25-year-old University of [...]

National Geography Bee: Test Your World Knowledge

The final round of the 2012 National Geographic Bee takes place Thursday, with students between the fourth and eighth grades testing their knowledge of countries, canals, and lava lakes. Of the 54 contestants who came to the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., for the bee, only 10 remain. Three of those finalists — Gopi [...]

Bankrupt In Paradise

The Northern Mariana Islands are about 4,000 miles west of Hawaii. They look like the kind of tropical islands you see in the movies with bright blue water and white sand beaches. The people who live on the islands are American. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a U.S. territory. And just like [...]

Teaching Teens To Build Hammers Home A Message

Teenagers in Washington, D.C., face tough odds getting a job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly half of those looking for work can’t find it — the highest rate in the country. Sasha Bruce Youthwork, an organization that works with troubled teens in the district, is trying to address that problem by training [...]

Old Ways Disappearing In The New Mongolia

Mongolia, the land of Genghis Khan and nomadic herders, is in the midst of a remarkable transition. Rich in coal, gold and copper, this country of fewer than 3 million people in Central Asia is riding a mineral boom that is expected to more than double its GDP within a decade. The rapid changes simultaneously [...]

Before Leaping To 10 Golds, Athlete Beat Polio

The debate over who is the greatest summer Olympian in U.S. history is relegated to a familiar list of names: Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Jim Thorpe, Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, perhaps Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Then there’s Ray Ewry, an all-but-forgotten Olympic great with a remarkable story. Ewry won his 10th gold medal in 10 tries by [...]

By Putting Patients First, Hospital Tries To Make Care More Personal

No one likes to go to the hospital. But some hospitals around the nation are trying to make their patients’ stays a little less unpleasant. They’re members of an organization called Planetree, which was founded by a patient named Angelica Thieriot, who had a not-so-good hospital experience back in the 1970s. “She herself became very [...]

Investors Question Fairness Of Facebook IPO

Shares of Facebook on Wednesday made up a little of the ground they’ve lost since the company’s troubled stock offering last week. But the company and its lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, still face a lot of legal problems. Some of the investors who bought shares of the company filed a lawsuit alleging that the two [...]

Beijing Imposes ‘Two-Fly’ Rule For Public Restrooms

Officials in Beijing have ruled that public restrooms in the Chinese capital can have no more than two flies in them at one time, the BBC reports. New rules issued Monday by the Beijing Municipal Commission of City Administration and Environment also regulate ads within the bathrooms and state that no more than two pieces [...]

A Peek Inside The CIA, As It Tries To Assess Iran

The latest talks in Baghdad over Iran’s nuclear program have prompted the usual arguments. Iran says it has only peaceful intentions. Israeli leaders scoff at that claim. Other world powers are unsure of Iran’s intentions and demand that it take steps to show that it is not pursuing nuclear weapons. The CIA and other U.S. [...]