Three teenagers were charged Monday in the beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor roll student on his way home from school, a melee captured on a cell phone video that shows a group striking him with boards and kicking him as he lay on a sidewalk.
The death of Derrion Albert, a sophomore at Christian Fenger Academy High School, on Thursday has reignited community outrage over chronic violence involving city students and is putting pressure on school and police officials to address gang problems that often are at the root of such violence. More than 30 students were killed in 2008, according to district figures, and the city could exceed that toll in 2009.
Scientists in charge of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva announced
yesterday that the machine will only be able to run on half energy before it
is temporarily shut down in two years’ time. Its full operating capacity
designed to probe the frontiers of science will [...]
Author: BY BERYL DIXON
DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN HND IS?
Higher National Diplomas (HNDs) are offered in universities and colleges. They are one year shorter than degree courses and the entry requirements are lower, but they are always in vocational or job-related subjects. They are not totally practical however. You would be expected to write [...]
This is something remarkable. Vocalist Kelley Shannon and guitarist John Stowell provide musical settings for poems by Tom Taylor, a longtime figure in avant guard poetry, who was published in many small literary magazines and had his own publishing house–the Anabasis Press–in Oysterville, WA.
(This Tom [...]
When there was no more John Coltrane, a generation of saxophonists were so deeply influenced by his spirit and ideas that they carried on his tradition and his sound. Not many succeeded, and very few remain.
One who has endured, taking the ideas from that era, making them his [...]
In the year-and-a-half since bassist/composerSam Howard moved here from New York City (via Florida and via his Wyoming birthplace) he has established himself as one of the finest, most versatile bass players in town. He’s equally adept at electric or acoustic bass.
He [...]