News briefs:June 16, 2010

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Saturday, October 22, 2005 New Paltz, New York — More than 350 U.S. students took part in a demonstration Friday outside the SUNY New Paltz Student Union Building where student leaders used a bullhorn from the rooftop to rally the gathering on the concourse below. University police dispersed student leaders from the roof which was

Hundreds of SUNY New Paltz students demonstrate, storm administration building

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Thursday, November 8, 2007 India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in

Latest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines

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More On This Topic: Consumer Brands Marketing Challenger Brands Agency Creating and transforming India! by ponting brown We have talked about education and the way it broadens a persons horizons innumerous times. Providing quality education should be the main focal point of any developing country; and for this purpose, several best engineering colleges have been

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 Following incorrect statements by media organizations that include Fox News and the New York Post earlier in the week that the US Marine Corps were changing their hats in order to make them more gender neutral, the Corps issued a statement yesterday countering the claim, saying they are only changing the

US Marines change hat style in response to manufacturer’s closure

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Friday, May 1, 2009 The American auto company Chrysler filed for bankruptcy Thursday, however a deal with European auto maker Fiat went through. The emerging Chrysler will be owned 55 percent by the United Auto Workers, eight percent by the United States Government, two percent by the Canadian Government and Fiat would begin with a

Chrysler files for bankruptcy, Fiat Group SpA to run company

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