http://www.meducat.com Religion, Education, Children, Teens Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you spending wakeless hours trying to master World of Warcraft? Would you rather send a friend a text mesage than meet in person? Do you sometimes fall asleep at the keyboard? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you may have an Internet addiction. But now there's help. The reStart ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/08/20/nations-first-internet-rehab-clinic-opens/ A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake. The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth. Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/08/10/dead-premature-baby-discovered-to-be-alive-in-coffin/ Sudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public. Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/08/04/police-beat-women-opposing-sudan-dress-code-trial/ A quiet Sunday morning in Plain City was disrupted by calls of an unusual, reckless driver. The Weber County Sheriff's Office released dash-cam video of a 7-year-old boy who went to great lengths to get out of going to church on July 26. He took the family car and led police ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/07/30/7-year-old-driver-leads-police-on-low-speed-chase/ An upstate New York jury says a former high school teacher is guilty of federal child pornography charges. A federal jury found 30-year-old John Puglisi guilty Friday of producing child pornography, possessing child pornography and persuading, inducing and enticing a minor to engage in sexual conduct. He faces at least 15 years ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/07/29/ny-jury-convicts-ex-teacher-of-sexting/ What is this world coming to? Isn't getting into scuffs part of growing up? WCBS A Connecticut middle school principal has laid down the law: You put your hands on someone -- anyone -- in any way, you're going to pay. A violent incident that put one student in the hospital has officials ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/03/27/middle-school-bans-all-physical-contact-between-students/ Is it any surprise that the public education system in California is in shabmles? AP In a spring rite that has become as predictable as cherry blossoms in the nation's capital, public school employees throughout California warned of wrenching classroom cuts as local officials faced a deadline for issuing layoff notices ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/03/14/california-to-give-pink-slips-to-26500-teachers/ A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children's parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills. Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home schooling her children who are 10, 11 and ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/03/13/divorce-judge-orders-home-schoolers-into-public-classroom-to-study-evolution/ Obviously a miscarriage of justice. The punishment does not fit the crime, even from a Shar'ia perspective... AP A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/03/10/saudi-arabia-75-year-old-woman-to-get-40-lashes-for-being-around-2-men/ And he was only 13? SLTrib Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said. On Friday, the Davis County Attorney's Office filed first-degree ... http://www.meducat.com/2009/03/08/two-female-high-school-teachers-accused-of-sex-with-same-13-year-old-male-student/