YOUR NATIONAL NEWS
FEBRUARY 2013
Day 27
Washington, DC
Politicans gathered for a most comprehesive celebration to Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The honorary bronze stature was unveiled as the only Afro-American ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2013 at 8:29AM
(more)
YOUR WORLD NEWS
February 2013
Day 28
Rome, Italy
Pope Benedict XVI delivered his final blessing speech to a huge crowd of 10,000 or more on February 27, 2013 and scheduled to make a final program on February 28th. Again, thousands of well-wis ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2013 at 8:19AM
(more)
YOUR MEDICAL NEWS
FEBRUARY 2013
Day 27
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a study with results surprisingly showing advanced breast cancer cases among women ages 25-29 years. The authors of the study reviewed datab ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2013 at 8:03AM
(more)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
He is best known for his work on HIV/AIDS and tobacco
Koop served as surgeon general in the 1980s under two presidents
He was surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Koop is survived by his wife, three children an ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2013 at 3:57AM
(more)
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks in a ceremony at the Capitol. Parks becomes the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. (Feb. 27) ...
Posted Thursday, February 28th 2013 at 3:20AM
(more)
I really wish the 911 operator did send a unit there so they could arrest this dumb idiot for misusing 911. People like her should NOT be reproducing.
...
Posted Wednesday, February 27th 2013 at 8:00PM
(more)
February 27th, 2013 (CNN) If newly unveiled plans pan out, a man and a woman may represent humanity on one journey that has never been attempted before: a mission to Mars. “It’s incredibly feasible. It’s not crazy talk," Taber MacCallum, CEO of Para ...
Posted Wednesday, February 27th 2013 at 7:44PM
(more)
By Lyndsey Layton and Nick Anderson,
The SAT, the most widely used college entrance exam for generations of students, is getting a makeover.
David Coleman, president of the College Board, which creates and administers the SAT, e-mailed his 6, ...
Posted Wednesday, February 27th 2013 at 3:50PM
(more)
Nine year old Quvenzhane' Wallis graced the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 24, 2013 with her very own style and showing beautiful grace as she was nominated for Best Actress. Although she didn't take home the Oscar she had good grace and style a ...
Posted Wednesday, February 27th 2013 at 9:05AM
(more)
(CNN) - Don't expect a lot of shuffleboard games for the soon-to-be former Bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter, Head of the College of Bishops, Vicar of Christ and Pastor of the Universal Church: Pope Benedict XVI. On Thursday, at 8 p.m. in Rome, ...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2013 at 3:58PM
(more)
Coca-Cola is Paying it Forward by offering students a chance to win a dream apprenticeship with Magic Johnson, Debra Lee, or Common. Visit www.mycokerewards.com/payitforward to learn more and to nominate youth between the ages of 16-21 by March 2nd, ...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2013 at 1:46PM
(more)
The Gullah/Geechee people are direct descendants of West Africans brought into the United States around the 1700s...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/07/world/africa/gullah-geechee-africa-slavery-america/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2013 at 10:58AM
(more)
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria's federal capital territory.
Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family. They walk alongside stray ...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2013 at 10:44AM
(more)
(CNN) Richard Turere, 13, doesn't like lions. In fact, he hates them. Yet he's helping the survival of these magnificent beasts with a flashy solution to keep them from clashing with humans.
FULL STORY
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/26/tech/richa ...
Posted Tuesday, February 26th 2013 at 10:39AM
(more)
It was an announcement that brought hundreds to their feet in Atlanta, GA, Saturday night, February 16, during Morehouse College's 25th Annual “A Candle in the Dark” Gala. The Gala is the College’s largest fund-raiser, with proceeds going towards st ...
Posted Monday, February 25th 2013 at 7:53PM
(more)
