Homeschool numbers grow - Thecalifornian.com
The number of home-schooled kids hit 1.5 million in 2007, up 74 percent from when the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics started keeping track in 1999, and up 36 percent since 2003. The percentage of the school-age ...

Sunlight helps kids' vision - Straits Times
SYDNEY - SPENDING a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said on Tuesday. Exposure to bright light for two to three hours daily helps regulate the eye's growth, dramatically ...

Sunlight can help children avoid myopia - Times of India
SYDNEY: Spending a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said on Tuesday. Exposure to bright light for two to three hours daily helps regulate the eye's growth, dramatically ...

Severe slowdown in India - Mid Day.com
THE recent performance of the engineering sector micro, small and medium in Pune points to a severe slowdown. This was revealed in the survey recently carried out by Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture. Engineering and auto ...

Cash-strapped New York Times opens front page to ads - News.com.au
THE cash-strapped New York Times has for the first time opened its editorial holy of holies, the front page, to advertising. A colour banner ad across the bottom of Monay's front page was for CBS television and carried the slogan "Front Page News ...

Sunlight can help children avoid myopia: Aussie researchers - New Straits Times
Spending a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said Tuesday. Growing numbers of children in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China are struggling with their vision, with up to ...

Top 3 OFW senders corner RP remittances - ABS-CBN
Three progressive Philippine regions have sent the most number of Filipino workers abroad and their families may have received about P348 billion in remittances in 2006 alone, according to a study by the nonprofit group Institute on Migration and ...

First day in Washington a dress rehearsal for Obama - Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama insists America has only one president at a time. But for the next two weeks, this city shows all signs of hosting two — working a mile apart along Pennsylvania Avenue. On Day One of President-elect Obama's tenure in ...

Local leaders seek money for job training - WTOP Radio
ROCKVILLE, Md. - While the incoming Obama Administration is said to be weighing tax cuts for the middle class, there's a local effort to bring a different kind of stimulus to the area: Money for job training. Local leaders say jobs are going unfilled ...

Schoolhouse educated for life - Myrtle Beach Online
Lexington's first kindergarten was interrupted by a national tragedy that seared itself into the country's memory. Yet The Little Red Schoolhouse left lifetimes of warm memories for more than a thousand preschoolers who romped in its playground and ...