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* Atlanta Testing Scandal "Tip of Iceberg" * AFT Teams with Coke
2015-04-02 17:51:48| Beverages - Topix.net
The Guardian in " Why the Atlanta cheating scandal failed to bring about national reform " states: "'Atlanta is the tip of the iceberg,' says Bob Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest , a nonprofit opposed to current testing standards. 'Cheating is a predictable outcome of what happens when public policy puts too much pressure on test scores.'
Brave New Animals Exposed by New York Times Are Tip of Iceberg
2015-01-27 19:26:54| Grocery - Topix.net
Did you read this week's New York Times' expose about the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center's experiments to help the meat industry make animals more "profitable"? The Center's experiments, funded by our tax dollars, combine the worst of factory farming with the worst of animal research. And the cruelty, which horrifies even veterinarians, is to help private industry, Big Meat, with public funds.
The Russian webcam attacks are just the tip of iceberg for potential home network attacks
2014-11-21 10:18:06| Wireless - Topix.net
The webcam hack by Russian attackers is merely a foreshadowing of what's to come if consumers don't secure their connected homes. Late last night, news broke that Russian hackers had breached home webcams around the world and connected them to a live stream, which broadcast the contents on a website.
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Greenland: Chasing Ice movie reveals largest iceberg break-up ever filmed
2014-04-18 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's like watching 'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says one of the researchers for filmmaker James Balog. He's describing the largest iceberg calving ever filmed, as featured in his movie, Chasing Ice. After weeks of waiting, the filmakers witnessed 7.4 cubic km of ice crashing off the Ilulissat glacier in Greenland. Chasing Ice, released in the UK on Friday, follows Balog's mission to document Arctic ice being melted by climate change. Watch our second clip from the documentary...
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Massive Antarctic iceberg sets sail
2013-11-13 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: After lingering in its birthing bay for nearly six months, an Antarctic iceberg the size of Singapore is finally heading out to sea. Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. The latest satellite images show several kilometers...
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