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Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school,some students are experiencing a different scenario the end of college panic.
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
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a way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
--massacre at a Labor Party youth camp, an announcement likely to bring new collective grief to an already reeling nation.
The Peace Corps was an attract ion for Wichman because
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The main speaker was 80-year-old Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, who said the country will move forward with economic reforms "without haste, but without pause."
Annual speech gives few new details on Cuba's situation
(Ciego de Avila, Cuba) - Cuba marked the 58th anniversary of Fidel Castro's failed attack on the Moncada army barracks Tuesday without a speech from President Raul Castro. Instead, Cubans heard from his second in comand, who offered few new details while hitting standard themes such as organization, discipline and economic reform.
"We must make a definitive break with the mentality of inertia ...and) evaluate how much more can be done with what is available," Machado Ventura said, before imploring the crowd and his countrymen to work harder and more efficiently. He repeated that the country was not abandoning socialism even as it embraced limited free market reforms.
"Order, discipline and rigor," he added, echoing the slogan on a billboard at the plaza.
The July 26 holiday is often used to make major announcements, and Cubans have a lot of questions on their minds these days.
Names of at least 76 dead being released
(Oslo, Norway) — The father of a victim of the Norway massacre said Tuesday his son was full of love for people and for the outdoors — and the young man's last words to him were "Dad, someone is shooting."
Police named the first four of at least 76 people dead. Although only names, ages and hometowns were listed, it will likely bring another shock to friends and acquaintances just learning the names of the victims. A 32-year-old Norwegian man has confessed to the attacks. claim
Norwegian police on Tuesday began releasing the names of those killed in last week's bomb blast and
ing he was trying to save Europe from what he says is Muslim colonization.
The first release listed three who were killed in a bomb blast in Oslo's government quarter and one dead after the rampage at a Labor Party youth camp.
Woman strikes attacking kangaroo and survives
"I thought it was going to kill me," Johnson told The Courier Mail from a hospital bed. "It was taller than me, and it just plowed through the clothes on the washing line straight for me."
"She fought it off herself with a bit of help from the family dog," her son said Tuesday. Rob Johnson said the kangaroo had "a bit of a go" at him when he arrived home from church, then he called police.
(Canberra, Australia) — A 94-year-old woman struck an attacking kangaroo with a broom and managed to crawl to safety in her house in the Australian Outback before police subdued the animal with pepper spray.
She said she saw a blur of red fur before the kangaroo knocked her down and kicked her prone body. Johnson told Australian media she managed to get to her feet and grab the broom to hit the animal enough times to daze it and escape.
Phyllis Johnson said the kangaroo attacked her while she was hanging her laundry in her yard Sunday in the Queensland state town of Charleville.
He said his mother has a large gash on
Leader vows loyalty to bin- Laden successor
(Sanaa, Yemen) — The leader of al-Qaida's Yemeni offshoot on Tuesday pledged his group's allegiance to Osama bin Laden's successor, and vowed to continue the fight against corrupt Western-backed leaders.
In a 10-minute audio message posted on extremist websites, Nasser al-Wahishi said his group — al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — recognizes Egyptian-born doctor Ayman al-Zawahri as the new chief of al-Qaida. Al-Zawahri took over command of al-Qaida following the death of bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in May.
Al-Qaida-linked militants have taken advantage of the political turmoil engulfing Yemen to seize control of at least two towns and surrounding territory in the country's south, forcing more than 100,000 people to flee the area as government forces carry out airstrikes and a ground offensive to regain control.
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"My soldiers and those soldiers with me in the Arab gulf... will not give up nor give in until Islam is ruling by God's will and strength," al-Wahishi said.
With an estimated 300 members, the United States says it is al-Qaida's most active branch.
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Senior-Sgt. Stephen Perkins, head of police in Charleville, said the first officer to reach the backyard was forced to spray the kangaroo to avoid being injured.
"The animal jumped away, then saw another officer at the back of the police car and went for that officer, and he also had to deploy his capsicum spray — so the roo had to get sprayed twice." Perkins told The Associated Press. "After that, it hopped away from the scene, but police could still monitor its location — it didn't go too far."
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