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Much of the brouhaha could have been avoided if 1) there were other news last week, and 2) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had been a bit more artful in his presentation of the speech's mission. "My concern is the clumsy way in which the Department of Education marketed this and the clumsy and unimpressive instructional materials that they provided," says Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...school lesson plan originally asked students to, "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President." That language was changed on Sept. 2 to "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term goals." Over the weekend, Secretary Duncan called the controversy "silly" and press secretary Robert Gibbs said, "If staying in school is a political message, then somebody should tell the NBA." Even Newt Gingrich (who will be joining Duncan and the Rev. Al Sharpton on a multicity speaking tour this fall to call attention to the nation...
...posts on that site has given new permanence to words such as hmm, heh, and mwah (the sound of an exaggerated kiss) that were previously considered mere sounds. "Had Twitter and Facebook not become so popular, there's no doubt these terms would not have been included," says Duncan Black, editor of the dictionary. "They're part of the language of microblogging." (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...their fire truck fell down a hillside.) Yet, as we're again reminded this year, tanker flights are favorite action shot of television news shows - California fire officials have dubbed them "CNN drops" - and that makes them a favorite among politicians, as well. As the Times reported, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter ignored the wishes of local officials and called Washington to demand aerial support during a 2003 fire in San Diego County. Six C-130's were dispatched over the next two days...
...Apple. China now has nearly 700 million mobile phones in use, almost as many as the next two largest mobile-phone nations - India and the U.S. - combined. "Apple needs a good international success story to keep their momentum going, and China is a great candidate for that," says Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA, a Beijing-based telecommunications consultancy...