Current Events-Students

Very cool, interactive timeline of the protests in the Middle East beginning with Tunisia in December 2010

Probably within the next five years, we will have the luxury of being in two places at one time using 3-D avatars. Instead of getting up early, getting dressed, and changing your schedule around for a meeting, you could just open up your laptop and within the matter of two minutes, you can be in a virtual conference room. The program will allow you to move your head to look around the room at the other people and while your avatar is wide awake and taking notes for you, you could be sleeping.

That would be awesome, it's like facetime but 3-D.

This sounds like it could be a bad idea. it would just make people lazier than what they are. I wouldnt do this.

A reporter was covering a story on protest in Bahrain. When the Bahrain goverment came up to them and pointed machine guns at them. The reporter was arrested and the goverment erased all the footage. They were at the police station for 6 hours before being released.

Its unbelievable the risks people take just to do their job.

True it is amazing that this reporter went there all of this for just a story. But hey go big or go home, right!

if two planes get close enough to hit each other there is something wrong with the air control station, someone was not performing there job well.

I do not understand how this happened. How could someone at the airport let the planes in the same area at the same time!

The people flying this plane are not to blame, the people in the control towers should be able to maintain control of these kind of things. I wouldn't be too happy about this because of somebody else being careless.

McLaren cuts the price of its carbon fiber menu. The MP4-12C one of Mclarens elite supercar is now more affordable. The MP4-12C has 592 horsepower twin-turbo V8. The car is capable of reaching over 205MPH. The car used to cost over $500,000.00. Now the super car cost lest then $250,000.00. What made the car so expensive before was the use of all carbon.

Yeah the supercar may be more affordable now from its old retail price but really who has a quarter mill to be spending on a car. unless you're rich of course.

People should just wait to buy the car because the price will just keep on dropping overtime.

In Long Island, New York a serial killer is on the loose. Police officers said they found remains which could be up to 9 bodies. They found their first remains in December. Four of the victims were on craigslist. The police are looking for more evidence that can tie someone up to these murders. They have everyone including the K-9 unit looking.If they don't catch this guy he is just going to murder more people. Hopefully, one day justice will be served.

I hope they find this serial killer. For the peoples in Long Island, New York. Hope there are no more people found died there. Hope everyone stays safe

Recently seven of the Mount Carmel Area Odyssey of the Mind teams went to Williamsport. Three out of the seven teams advanced to world. Odyssey of the Mind is a competition that anyone can compete in. The teams consist of five to seven people. This competition has two parts. The first is your long term problem. At the beginning of the season you pick a problem. There are five total. You then have to solve this problem within an eight minute skit and meet all of the regulations. The second part is spontaneous. The team enters a room with three judges. You can receive a hands-on problem, a hands-on verbal problem, or a verbal problem. Each problem varies on topics and you have a specific amount of time. You are also limited to how many times you may answer. Each of your teams received 1st or 2nd place at the state competition. They will be going to the University of Maryland where they will compete for a world title. Spontaneous and the long term problems are on separate days. Pin trading and shirt trading are only two of the many activities to do during their time there.

Hope u have a good time. Good luck and hope u win.

The first time in a lone time that our odyssey of the mind made it to worlds. Good luck and great job at worlds, Congratulations and i hope you win at worlds.

Skeptics and conspiracy theorists have been attacking president Obama with their doubts that he was born in America. Statistics show that 25% of citizens have doubt of his birth on U.S. soil. But, evidence has shown that he is a U.S. citizen. And was born in Hawaii. Proof such as the document of his birth in the newspaper, the birth certificate, and memories of the current governer of Hawaii as Barack was a baby.

Not according to Donald Trump.

Obama may have been born in usa but he dont act it

Shane Parthsm came home from Iraq and he lost 8 of his friends, hes wife was seeing another man.After Shane had dinner with his family, He drove to her family's house with a gun in this hands. Wendy sister called the police about a family fight. He kills his wife Wendy and now he is in jail at Newton County, Georgia , His there for life.

The Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its' prison population by 30,000 people. Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the prison system is failing to deliver minimal care to the prisoners. Also, suicide rates in the prison are 80% higher than the average for inmates nationwide. There are now more than 140,000 inmates in the prison system now.

The primary suspect in the brutal beating of a of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium is Giovanni Ramirez. He is 31 years old and is associated with the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang. It is one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles.

I really can't believe that somebody has the guts to beat somebody up for something so little and stupid. That guy can't even like his favorite baseball team without getting beat up for it. I think that it is a great thing that the giants players are giving a reward to anyone with answers. It really shows that they care about their fans.

when stuff like this happens it needs to be dealt with and have major consequences. when this happens it just looks bad on the sport and general managers that do not provide enough security. this is a major problem at sporting events.

57-year-old Jacqueline Berghorn came face-to-face with a bear at her home in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. It pushed her down and she hit a glass door. The bear then ran away, right through a fence. Berghorn said it came back and her husband fired two shots at it. He missed and the bear ran off.One of Berghorn's neighbors said a bear killed six chickens on his property Sunday, but it's believed to be a different bear.

I agree with kayleen, the bear must have a motive behind doing this. Black bears arent really that mean of bears. they usually keep to themselves.

It's not unlikely to have bears around our houses and places where we do activities. We just need to be careful in case we do see one to know what to do.

Death toll rises to 118, Missouri governor says. A siren test is scheduled for Tuesday. First responder struck by lightning is in ICU. President Barack Obama plans to visit Missouri this weekend.

Wow, that's horrible. i wonder how much money is gonna be spent to fix the places that got hit.

I feel sorry for the people house and family that died and losted everything. Missouri's tornado is one of the million that hit in the U.S.A

The tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri killed about 118 people and could have damages reaching 3 billion dollars in insured losses.

A devastating tornado hit Joplin, Mo., that killed at least 117 people. This tornado may have caused up to $3 billion dollars in damage & insured losses, according to an estimate from a catastrophe risk modeling firm released Tuesday.

this is very sad my cousin lives in Joplin with her family and was only about a hundred yards from the home depot that collapsed. there is barely anything left of her house. this is so sad for everyone involved in it.

Their are severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes could erupt from northeast Texas into parts of Mississippi and Tennessee it's also touching parts of Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana

Ford Motor combined strong sales and improved pricing to roar past earnings forecasts and post its best first-quarter profit since 1998. Ford earned $2.6 billion, up 22% from last year. They did this by lowing prices on cars and making the most sold cars in America. This has been Fords best since 1998. They are currently the company withe the most cars sold.

This would be good for them because then it would help them out

Hopefully things stay good for them.

The United States was once one of the most rapidly growing countries in the world, but that is not the case now. Slow population growth can be a good thing, as the U.S. is in a recession the way it is, and more people can make it worse, especially with jobs currently being difficult to find. From the 90's to 2000, the U.S. was growing at 13.2%, and from 2000 to 2010, it has grown 9.7%. 43% of the growth is Hispanics, which shows how rapidly we our adapting to a diverse community. Studies show that the U.S. is becoming a middle aged country, which will most likely harm us if we don't get out of the recession, because that will be even more money being drained once all the middle aged people are able to collect Social Security.

Police are looking for three people who took a donation jar from julf gas filled with $20

This is sad. That money could have been used to make a difference in someone sick and now it's being used for something not nearly important. People are just so inconsiderate.

That is just a shame how people could go and steal things, and to go and steal money that is for someone with cancer yet. I dont think some people have feelings. It is just wrong and uncaring to do something like that.

College student working on project to turn food waste into energy. He is studying was to converting biomass waste into liquid fuel known as butanol.

This topic is one of the most discussed alternet energy resolutions today, but hardly funded. Its possible that this college student will get somewhere, but also nowhere without funding to back up his research.