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Nearly two hundred years ago the first American Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, established the University of Virginia in his beloved town of Charlottesville. It is fitting, then, that John Kerry, the recently appointed Secretary of State, chose to deliver his first major policy speech at this historic university on Wed., Feb. 20. But, while […]
Continue ReadingMany politicians have used the elementary school shooting tragedy in Newton, Connecticut as a springboard for the campaign against violent video games. President Obama has provided the Center for Disease Control (CDC) with $10 million to conduct research about the correlation between virtual and real-life violence. West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller plans to resubmit his […]
Continue ReadingPiedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) is adding new classes to the Spring 2013 Workforce Services class schedule starting in January in the new state-of-the-art teaching kitchen at the Jefferson Center. The new culinary classes explore a variety of topics from making chocolates and pastries to Mediterannean and Asian Cuisine. PVCC’s Workforce Services had partnered up […]
Continue ReadingAfghans living in foreign countries are still witnessing and hearing about the dramatic events in Afghanistan. With the influx of technology, especially social media, in Afghanistan, stories do not stay hidden from the rest of the world. “Gumnami” (“the anonymity”), a book that was banned recently in Afghanistan, is another example of discrimination against the […]
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