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Controversy Swirls Around Harsh Anti-Obesity Ads : NPR
Stark billboards and television commercials that feature overweight kids are part of a controversial anti-obesity campaign in Atlanta. The goal of the "Stop Sugarcoating It, Georgia" ads is to shock families into recognizing that obesity is a problem.
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The US schools with their own police | World news | The Guardian
The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children were bullying her with taunts of "you smell".
"I'm weird. Other kids don't like me," said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. "They were saying a lot of rude things to me. Just picking on me. So I sprayed myself with perfume. Then they said: 'Put that away, that's the most terrible smell I've ever smelled.' Then the teacher called the police." -
Understanding JavaScript OOP — Sorella's Basement
JavaScript is an object oriented (OO) language, with its roots in the Self programming language, although it's (sadly) designed to look like Java. This makes the language's really powerful and sweet features stay covered by some pretty ugly and counter-intuitive work-arounds.
One such affected feature is the implementation of prototypical inheritance. The concepts are simple yet flexible and powerful. It makes inheritance and behaviourism first-class citizens, just like functions are first-class in functional-ish languages (JavaScript included). -
Cut the Rope | Behind the Scenes
Cut the Rope is an immediate favorite for anyone who plays it. It’s as fun as it is adorable. So we had an idea: let’s make this great game available to an even bigger audience by offering it on the web using the power of HTML5.
To do this, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team partnered with ZeptoLab (the creators of the game) and the specialists at Pixel Lab to bring Cut the Rope to life in a browser. The end result is an authentic translation of the game for the web, showcasing some of the best that HTML5 has to offer: canvas-rendered graphics, browser-based audio and video, CSS3 styling and the personality of WOFF fonts. -
Guantanamo still in use for US war on terror, 10 years after - CSMonitor.com
Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.
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"I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.
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