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I keep up with the events and politics. I am reading the book Kids These Days - Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris and it gave me a very different perspective on student Debt. Chapter Two called Go to College, discusses student debt, its design not to be discharged via bankruptcy, and the use of future earnings of millennials to fund current healthcare debt IE Obamacare and education capitol construction projects for the foreseeable future. This puts a different spin on what happened to these kids who have been encouraged to voluntarily take on debt that...

Avery McRae has been passionate about the environment for half a lifetime, and she’s been worried about climate change since kindergarten. Now, at 11, she is really getting serious. She recently signed on to sue President Trump and the U.S. government. “Trump is not doing anything to help stop climate change,” she says. “He’s a climate change denier, and we’re gonna prove that to the world!”

SEATTLE (AP) — Eight Seattle children should have "their day in court" to argue that Washington state and others aren't protecting them from climate change, a judge ruled. King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill on Monday allowed the young petitioners to move ahead in their case against the state, writing that "it is time for these youth to have the opportunity to address their concerns in a court of law, concerns raised under statute and under the state and federal constitutions." The petitioners, between 12 and 16 years old, had asked the judge last month to find the state...

A northeast Washington judge has found two boys, ages 10 and 11, competent to stand trial in juvenile court on a murder conspiracy charge. Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen says the fifth-graders had a handwritten plan listing seven steps leading up to the planned killing of a female classmate. That list was submitted as evidence at their mental capacity hearing Friday. The boys were arrested Feb. 7 at Fort Colville Elementary School after a fourth-grader saw one playing with a knife on a school bus and told a school employee. A backpack search also turned up a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol...

Video Linky Clicky Here CHATTANOOGA (RCB) - "I don't know how four year old could think of this," said Logan Pugh. Pugh was sleeping inside a friend's home on Blue Spruce Drive on Monday night, little did he know, he wasn't the only guest. "He got in an out of the house without waking anybody up," Pugh told Eyewitness News. Pugh slept soundly until deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office knocked on the door looking for a missing four year old boy. "They found him at the end of the street drinking a beer, walking around like it...

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. -- Fletcher High School is on "code red" lockdown after police received a 911 call saying that a student in the cafeteria had a hand grenade.Students were kept in their classrooms and Neptune Beach police are going through the school searching every student, every locker and every backpack for any device."At this time all of the police departments -- the JSO, Neptune Beach Police, Atlantic Beach and Jacksonville Beach -- are working together searching all of the students," Vice-Principal Ben Titus said. "We really believe that it's a hoax, but we're taking it very seriously and making...

I need info. for a report that i have to do this month on Robert E. Lee. I have to wirte at least 1 page on him so any info. at all will be very helpful

<p>The first thing you notice, talking on the phone with Shannon Larratt, is that he doesn't have a lisp.</p> <p>You thought he would, as his tongue has been split.</p> <p>Intentionally.</p> <p>By choice.</p> <p>Split.</p> <p>But the man who edits BMEzine online - that's BM as in body modification - says he's never known a splitter to develop a lisp. For that to happen, he says, the cut would have to be extreme.</p>