Archive for September 20th, 2007
Rallies for the Jena 6
The Jena 6 are attracting attention all over the country. Thousands of people rallied in Jena, Louisiana, (pop: 3,000) this morning in support of the six African American students charged for beating up a white student last December. Read about it here.
And here in Los Angeles, crowds came out all over the city. One of [...]
A sixth-grade startup genius! Or not.
I had a friend in college who was touted during freshman convocation as having built his own computer while in sixth grade. It was later revealed that his father (an engineer) gave him a little bit of help during the process.
Similar suspicions arise surrounding a Mediaversed report that a sixth grader in Silicon Valley [...]
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