Current news about sharks

The World Wildlife Fund says that the coral sea is one of the last marine wilderness areas on Earth. The coral sea is home to many fishes, including reef shark and hammerhead shark.
Some coral seas are not protected so the sharks that lives there are at the risk of being wiped out by over fishing sharks.
In some areas the number of sharks in coral seas are good but in some areas their population have been devastated.
Click on this and you will be able to see sharks swimming!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/cbbc/newsid_7410000/newsid_7414800?redirect=7414809.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1
You would need RealPlayer to see this short video.

Plagiarism

"Professor Lou Bloomfield designed the program to scan papers for shared phrases of at least six words. When he later checked the papers by hand, Bloomfield found entire term papers that had been lifted from someone else. A program is made for professors to catch duplicated phrases in term papers has triggered one of the biggest plagiarism investigations ever at the University of Virginia, with 122 students or recent graduates under suspicion." -5/15 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/05/10/tech/main290674.shtml
"Technology Yields Plagiarism Bust" - Charlottesville, Virginia , May 10, 2001.
A lot of students were caught rewriting and copying posts from websites and not citing their source of information. I cited the website, the date I read and copied it and I gave full credit to the person for wrote it.
Here is a video about plagiarism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5z7MNP4SU

Tornado Devastation

"President Bush is promising to federal help to three states that had been struck by severe weather this weekend. Powerful series of storms killed at least 20 people in Missouri, Oklahoma. Most people had been left with ruins of their home after the storms passed. Other people is suffering from an cyclone in Myanmar. It is more than a week since the cyclone hit Myanmar. The U.S. military is preparing to drop items to Myanmar in Thailand."
CNN Student News Podcast-5/12/08

Student 2.0

The first one I read was called "Experiential Learning: The Day of Silence" This one was about an experience that someone found deeply rewarding. Anthony Chivetta had participated in the GLSEN’s Day of Silence. Anthony started participating last minute and on a whim two years ago when Anthony was offered a “Day of Silence Participant” button by a member of Anthony's school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. The stated purpose of the day is to call attention to hate speech and its silencing effects on GLBT students. In this sense, the day is an activist event. For Anthony, this is a noble cause taking the admirable form of self-sacrifice. Even if this was the only reason to participate, Anthony would gladly do so. http://students2oh.org/

Kids unearth bear bones at school

Immy Price, Billy Thomas-Connolly and Mary Barker, unearthed two teeth and a leg bone belonging to a 40,000-year-old cave bear, in their school playground. This incredible thing happened in Bristol.

Squid has the biggest eye in the world!

Scientists who are inspecting the world's largest squid say they reckon the huge animal has the biggest set of eyes ever.
The rare dead squid is being examined by experts who hope to find out more about the unusual creature.
As long as a double-decker bus, it weighs about 495kg and its eyes would have been the size of a football.The eyes were used to help the scary squids when hunting prey in the deep dark Southern Ocean.