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5 states to increase class time in some schools

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 2nd

By By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states were to announce Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in

Program trains farmworkers to be organic farmers

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 2nd

By By GOSIA WOZNIACKAAssociated Press SALINAS, Calif. (AP) - Bending over beds of shriveled strawberry plants, former farmworker Domitila Martinez pulls pieces of black plastic row covers in preparation for next season's planting. Except this time, she's the boss. Martinez, who escaped

Strategy, timing key to states' pot legalization

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 2nd

By By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug "Just Say No" campaign, a man calling himself "Jerry" appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws. An esteemed businessman, he hid his identity because he didn't want to

Katzenberg, Spielberg attend Governors Awards

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 2nd

By By SANDY COHENAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tom Hanks. Quincy Jones. Kristen Stewart. Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino. George Lucas. Steven Spielberg. Kirk Douglas. Amy Adams. Richard Gere. These and other famous folks came to the film academy's Governors Awards Saturday to

Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By LINDSEY TANNERAP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) - The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain. The revisions

Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By CARLEY PETESCHAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) - In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. Two decades later the

Mexico swears in president amid violent protests

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By MARK STEVENSON and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president Saturday vowing to restore peace and security and take on the vested interests that have hindered economic prosperity. As several hundred

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By MICHAEL CASEY and KARL RITTER DOHA, Qatar (AP) - At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine. Not a word about climate change, even though the Middle

Not just 4 texting: 1 in 3 middle-schoolers uses smart phones for homework

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 30th

By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Move over, Angry Birds. It's time to tackle a math problem. A new survey finds that about a third of middle-schoolers now use smart phones or tablets not just for entertainment and communication, but also for homework. Paired with young people's interest in science