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Posted: 10 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT
Kim Highfield, director of Out of Africa Children's Fund, opens the "baby safe" at the Anybody Family Centre on May 9 in Cape Town, South Africa. An alarm goes off when an unwanted baby is placed in the safe, which then automatically locks.
South Africa's Times newspaper reported today on a controversial new scheme in Cape Town that allows parents to leave unwanted babies anonymously in a "baby safe" mounted on an exterior wall of a community center.
The initiative was launched last week by charity worker Kim Highfield. "Less than 10 seconds after a baby is placed in the metal structure, which is lined with a baby blanket and pillow, an alarm is triggered inside the building", the Times reported.
"Child welfare experts agree that, though Highfield means well, her initiative could increase baby abandonment and create a myriad of legal and social problems."
Nobody has yet made use of the safe, but the newspaper reports that about 101 babies have been deposited in a similar facility in Johannesburg since January 2007.
Posted: 10 May 2011 09:10 AM PDT
President Obama insisted that the force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by local forces.
Posted: 10 May 2011 07:00 AM PDT
Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks and balances among the legislative, executive and judicial branches, according to test results released on Wednesday.
At the same time, three-quarters of high school seniors who took the test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, were unable to demonstrate skills like identifying the effect of United States foreign policy on other nations or naming a power granted to Congress by the Constitution.
“Today’s NAEP results confirm that we have a crisis on our hands when it comes to civics education,” said Sandra Day O’Connor, the former Supreme Court justice, who last year founded icivics.org, a nonprofit group that teaches students civics through Web-based games and other tools.
The Department of Education administered the test, known as the nation’s report card, to 27,000 4th-, 8th- and 12th-grade students last year. Questions covered themes like how government is financed, what rights are protected by the Constitution and how laws are passed.
Posted: 09 May 2011 01:29 PM PDT
We know what you're thinking, but the Jolly Green Giant didn't drop something on the way to hang out his laundry. Designed by Steffi Min for her industrial design senior thesis, the Peg lamp looks and functions like an over-sized clothespin, directly clipping onto a standard light bulb. As you can see in the video after the break, changing a bulb takes only a second or two, and there's almost no risk of broken glass. We don't expect a clothes pin connector to appear as a retail product anytime soon, but if we can build our own humanoid robots, we can probably find a way to slide an over-sized rubber band around two wedges of wood.
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