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A black Arkansas teen who graduated top of her class is suing her high school for racial discrimination after the principal decided to name a white student with a lower GPA as co-valedictorian. Read Full Story: Student Sues School After Barred From Being Sole Valedictorian - ABC News

If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot...BOTH...

I want to say what I'm looking for in a laptop and get input from the W7 community on what I should buy. I'm not that brand specific, but usually I buy from Dell. I already have a home laptop, and it's sure to stay home even though I know it's meant to be portable, but I want it to be...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CBT XPress, a Microsoft Partner, announced today that they will be including the latest Windows 7 certification exams as part of their highly acclaimed IT Boot Camp classes. More...

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering,®is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering...

ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering,® is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering...

Carl Greninger works in Microsoft IT Operations as a PM. Carl is also the closest I've met to a real life "Doc Brown". He even has his own version of a Mr. Fusion, except his really works. Carl spent about a year along with a group of 13-17 year old students building his own nuclear reactor...

If you are about to plunk down some cash for a new Windows 7 PC for your college studies, you may be able to score a free Xbox with that purchase. Microsoft is giving away a free Xbox 360 4GB console with the purchase of a Windows 7 PC $699 or more beginning this week through September 3, or...

When graduating senior Michelle Jiang visited a job fair in Florida last year, recruiters were chasing her down. Literally. After dropping off a resume at the booth for Johnson Controls, a maker of heating, air-conditioning and power solutions, the next day the company's recruiter ran up to...

Link Removed due to 404 Error MOONACHIE — A substitute teacher from Rutherford was arrested Friday and charged with engaging in sexual conduct with an eighth-grade student from the Robert L. Craig School in Moonachie, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Patricia Gallegos...

It should come as no surprise to any parent that kids will bring home the darnedest things. Whether it is a slimy toad or a sniffling cold, they'll certainly keep you on your toes. Those items, as irritating as they may be, however, pale in comparison to an item one New York child recently...

The great Link Removed is back!! Link Removed Yuri is a logician, computer scientist, and inventor of abstract state machines. He currently works in Microsoft Research (he's a member of Wolfram Schulte's RiSE team). This is the third and final part in our introductory series of lectures...

Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live just 500 metres apart in the Mexican village of Ayapa, but have not spoken in years. It is unknown whether an argument is at the root of their issues, or if they simply don't have anything to say to one another. Speaking to The Guardian...

Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!! We are 7 years old today! Link Removed Wow, hard to believe. What a great 7 years it has been. THANK YOU, NINERS! In celebration, we bring you the latest episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer. Our very special guest is Eric Lippert. Many of you probably know Eric...

The launch date for Dell’s 10-inch Windows 7 based tablet looks to slip until the fall according to industry analysts. Nobody knows why the 10-inch tablet won’t make it’s debut until at least September, but it’s certainly going to spell doom for Dell taking advantage of the back to school...

Microsoft has today opened a European Cloud & Interoperability Center (CIC) in Brussels. Located within the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Microsoft has invested 5.3m Euroes into the CIC – designed to drive innovation and economic growth across Europe through business use of cloud...

Over the next few weeks, high school students across the country will be taking a voluntary exam designed to test their financial smarts. The 2011 National Financial Capability Challenge is designed to make sure kids are heading out into the real world with a basic understanding of things...

Bright student Victoria Cowie may be only 11-years-old but she has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein. The schoolgirl has now joined the ranks of Mensa’s brightest people with an intelligence score of 162 – two points higher than the German physicist. Victoria had her pick of top schools...

Looking ahead to 2011, you may be wondering: Does the job market have brighter days in its forecast? While not all the news is good news (the unemployment rate is expected to remain high), there are employment experts who believe things are looking up in certain industries. Usually...