Current Events-Students

U.N. security council wants to stop Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Quddafi from killing innocent civilians and defeating rebel forces in Libya.

Conditions worsening at nuclear power plant after earthquake and tsunami. Possible damage to containment vessels could lead to leaking radiation.

Japan is going to be a disaster if the radiation leaks.

In a 'long shot' theory, physicists propose that the world's largest atom smasher could be used as a time machine to send a special kind of matter backward in time.

Could you even imagine the possibility of controlling time. Everything on earth evolves around time, from planning events, keeping an agenda, and even when to eat. The fact is time is like money, we spend it quick with much regret. I wouldn't know what to do if this became actually real, because life is precious a train thats never stopping. Controlling time would be a disgrace towards life and its purposes.

The researchers said "the method could be used to send messages to the past or the future." I think that they're right this is a long shot. Its just to much of a long shot, I don't think this will be perfected anytime soon.

Over 700 people from guatemala was infected with syphilis by U.S researchers some scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalans and none of them were informed or gave consent.

This was just wrong even though they are in prison you still should not use them as human test subjects. They have a right to the money they are suing for.

A universitey lab technician at yale admitted to killing a girl

troops were sent to saudi arabia to help tame the protests

USC;s Darla Moore school of business tops the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School to reclaim its ranking as the No. 2 graduate international business program in the U.S.

Protesters in Bahrain were killed today by police. Soldiers and hundreds of police chased protester out of Bahrain`s capital.

In the first round of NCAA Tournament Aaron Johnson tried to block a shoot and broke his right leg.

Description of how to properly tag web items.

Primary source utilized in Current Events class

Introduction to Twitter for my students and my school.  Includes explanatory videos and helps to show the value of Twitter for personal and social learning.

Powerful images of the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

Using Twitter to facilitate class discussions