How We Use Social Media During Emergencies

The use of social media during national and international crises, both natural and political, is something that Mashable has followed with great interest over the past few years.

flannerywilhite 2 years ago 1 response

U.S. Plan to Replace Principals Hits Snag: Who Will Step In?

The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new principals to overhaul most of the failing schools. That policy decision, though, ran into a difficult reality: there simply were not enough qualified principals-in-waiting to take over. Many school superintendents also complained that replacing principals could throw their schools into even more turmoil, hindering nascent turnaround efforts.

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An H.I.V. Strategy Invites Addicts In

At 12 tables, in front of 12 mirrors, a dozen people are fussing intently in raptures of self-absorption, like chorus line members applying makeup in a dressing room. But these people are drug addicts, injecting themselves with whatever they just bought on the street — under the eyes of a nurse here at Insite, the only “safe injection site” in North America.

flannerywilhite 2 years ago 2 responses

Buffalo Billionaire Lifts Soccer in English Town

The phone first rang a year ago in January. The caller identified himself as Bob Rich, a billionaire American businessman and sports team owner. He had English royals among his ancestors. For Christmas, his wife had bought him the title Lord of Bedlington. And he wanted to do something, well, lordly.

favonik 2 years ago 2 responses