Community colleges drawing top students - Houston Chronicle
They pay for your classes, you get your books on loan, and you get a free trip to Europe,” said Rachel Hirsch, a 2008 Bellaire High School graduate who is in the honors college at Houston Community College, the area's most generous program. “

Non-traditional U.S. sports taking hold in the Santa Clara Valley - San Jose Mercury News
That's a sticky wicket! Hit a loop shot! Get in the scrum! Not exactly grand slam, slam dunk and touchdown, but this sport terminology makes perfect sense to a growing number of local residents who have brought their passion for sport with them from

Peddie schools Parkway in opener - The Sun News
MYRTLE BEACH -- Peddie School of Hightstown, N.J., kind of likes the blue print for success in the Crescent Bank Holiday Invitational that Fayette County (Ga.) has established. Fayette County (Ga.) won the 2008 tournament title with a championship

Demand grows for food for the needy - Wichita Falls Times Record News
The Wichita Falls Area Food Bank serves food pantries, soup kitchens, after-school feeding programs, senior citizen centers, homeless shelters and low-income day care centers in Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Knox, Montague

New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs - New York Times
Yes, they say, the computing tools young people see and use every day — e-mail, text-messaging and Facebook — are part of the story. But so are the advances in field after field that are made possible by computing, like gene-sequencing that

Why 2K? Now Calipari gets it - Courier-Journal
LEXINGTON, Ky. — As the University of Kentucky basketball team was preparing to play North Carolina this month, coach John Calipari downplayed the significance of the programs' race to become the first in college hoops history to win 2,000 games

Walter Stamm Dies at 64; Helped Curb Chlamydia - New York Times
The findings led to chlamydia control programs in the United States and Europe that markedly reduced the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease. While the disease can be painful, it causes no symptoms in many women. In either case, the infection

A look at events from January to March that shaped midstate - Macon Telegraph
@BR Box Type bold lede colon:7: University of Georgia football stars Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno announce that they will forgo their senior years to enter the NFL draft. 13: Starcadia Entertainment Park, located off Bass Road, closes after

When Uncle Joe’s your grandpa, &c. - Article.nationalreview.com
A final thought: You know how millions, for a generation or so, referred to Stalin as “Uncle Joe”? Imagine if, for real, he had been your Grandpa Joe. Anyway . . . You may well have seen this news out of Tehran: “After months of denials, Iran

Mentoring program gives kids incentive to learn - San Francisco Chronicle
He realized that without a good reason to learn, students were often bored and unmotivated, and then too many quit. With the state's high school dropout rate at a mind-boggling 25 percent, Balme decided to start asking his students questions: "If you