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News scanners who track schools, privacy tech, food labels, history language, and fitness research will recognize crazygrammie1. CRCT losing its influence in Georgia explains that Criterion Referenced Competency Test scores for grades three through eight matter less as the state leaves No Child Left Behind style accountability, quoting Professional Association of Georgia Educators spokesman Tim Callahan on educators feeling testing went too far. Human barcode could make society more organized, but invades privacy revisits science fiction author Elizabeth Moon on BBC radio arguing for implanted unique IDs from birth, while cameras and DNA tests stay slow and costly for identification. US denies name change for high fructose corn syrup reports FDA food safety chief Michael Landa rejecting corn industry use of the name corn sugar because the liquid sweetener differs from solid dextrose and can affect people with hereditary fructose intolerance. Obama Nazi death camp gaffe hurt all Poles follows Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk after the president called a German Holocaust site a Polish death camp while awarding Jan Karski the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Can Exercise Be Bad for You summarizes a PLoS One analysis of six studies and 1,687 people led by Claude Bouchard, finding about ten percent worsened on at least one heart related measure. Start with CRCT and the exercise paper for data, then barcode, syrup, or Poland items for public debate.

CRCT losing its influence in Georgia

Jun 14, 2012 · crazygrammie1
CRCT losing its influence in Georgia CRCT standardized test scores will be released today, but they won’t bring with them the headiness or headaches they’ve brought in the past. That’s because the…
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‘Human barcode’ could make society more organized, but invades privacy, civil liberties

Jun 2, 2012 · crazygrammie1
  As tech companies work to develop ID chips, how long until we’re no longer anonymous? Would you barcode your baby? Microchip implants have become standard practice for our pets, but have…
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US denies name change for high-fructose corn syrup

May 31, 2012 · crazygrammie1
US regulators denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely “corn sugar,” in a high-profile dispute between two industries. The effort to change the name comes amid…
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Obama Nazi death camp gaffe ‘hurt all Poles’: PM

May 30, 2012 · crazygrammie1
US President Barack Obama’s description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a “Polish death camp” shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II.…
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Can Exercise Be Bad for You?

May 30, 2012 · crazygrammie1
Could exercise actually be bad for some healthy people? A well-known group of researchers, including one who helped write the scientific paper justifying national guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the…
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