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AN AUTHORITY which urges people to use public transport to visit Snowdonia has decided the same buses and trains are unsuitable for its guests at a UK conference.
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News: Park shuns public transport for ‘green’ meeting delegates (icWales)
Today's youngsters are buried under homework, which gobbles up free time that could be spent with family or friends. Parents, puzzled whether to help their children dig out from a pile of books or allow them to carry on alone, are frustrated by the take-home workload. And they're angry at the stress the immense amounts of homework can put on their whole family.
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Study: Contrary to popular belief, parents OK with kids' homework loads (PhysOrg)
(AP) -- Sprint and Samsung are going to start selling a $50 "eco-conscious" phone with a casing of biodegradable plastic.
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Sprint and Samsung launch biodegradable phone (PhysOrg)
The 12 scientists and support staff made a slow crawl across a vast, blank stretch of East Antarctica this past austral summer for three months to study how regional climate variability relates to global climate change.
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IPY Traverse Overland exploration of East Antarctica collects data for last thousand years of climate (SpaceRef)
A list of television movies for the week of July 12.
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US police have 'good' clues about Indian American youth's murderUS police have 'good' clues about Indian American youth's murder
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US police have 'good' clues about Indian American youth's murder (The Economic Times)
I don't intend to do anything fancy - no slick presentation - no jargon - just a straightforward and brief account of why the academy programme worked for William Hulme's Grammar School and the kind of school I think it will work for.
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Labour is 'losing its nerve' on academies: Steve Patriarca's speech in full (Daily Telegraph)
( Geological Society of America ) Bulletin papers examine carbon-14 dating of marine mud fossils in Ireland that suggests high ice-sheet sensitivity to small climate changes, formation of Valles Marineris, Mars, a buried fossil forest in the Gold Hill Loess, Alaska, a 20-meter-high salt pillar near the Dead Sea, how shrimp affect groundwater flow in the Biscayne aquifer, a possible emerging ...
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To get around the city, Yutaka Makino hops on his skateboard or rides commuter trains. Does he dream of the day when he has his own car? Not a chance.
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