In a revolutionary approach, Melbourne's St Michael's Grammar School has dumped rigid homework guidelines and set hours for what it now calls "out-of-class" work.

Year 3 student Sophie told the Herald Sun she often preferred to do a negotiated out-of-class task rather than watch TV, saying they were "fun".

Competence always looks better from a distance, but I have a confession to make: I'm a doctor, and I just don't understand most of the stories on health risks in the news. I don't mean I can't understand the fuss. I mean I literally can't understand what they're trying to communicate to me.

Taoiseach is Irish Gaelic. It may be pronounced "tee-shoch" (with the "ch" sound as in "loch"). In the accent of some speakers of Donegal Irish, however, its pronunciation is closer to "tee-shah". The plural, Taoisigh, may be pronounced "tee-she" or "tee-shig". The Taoiseach is often formally addressed in English as An Taoiseach, "An" being the Irish definite article.

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Conclusion: More grant money needed for follow-up studies.

But Australian Olympic Committee spokesman Mike Tancred said illegal use of the famous rings effectively took cash away from athletes.
"A hotel comes along and puts it up illegally, and that detracts from sponsorship dollars and in turn hurts athletes who we try to fund to send to the Olympic Games," Mr Tancred said.

The Olympic Insignia Protection Act was introduced in 2001 to give the AOC copyright over the insignia.

I don't mind the limited socialism of the AFL because of the evening out of the competition, but we should remember some of its features – features that in a wider society would be unacceptable. They include the best players getting far more than the worst, the worst and weak facing the instant sack, restrictions on the freedom of players and coaches to speak or to transfer, great powers to the Big Boss, and no true alternative employ for dissident professional players.

The detention center at Guantánamo is legally dubious and has been a public relations disaster for the United States. The treatment of certain prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan has been far worse. Amnesty's president Irene Kahn says that these practices are "undermining human rights in a dramatic way." Her outrage is valuable and essential. If only she could express it without employing obscene moral parallels.

There has never been a serious crime or any crime on the Australian waterfront.

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Schapelle Corby's supporters are seeking A-list actors, sports stars and celebrities to back their campaign to have her freed from a Bali jail.

"I just think the world's got to debate whether uranium-derived power is more dangerous than coal," Mr Carr said.

"The polar ice caps are melting, every glacier on the planet is sliding away to extinction.

"The planet is warming up and we need some new energy source until wind and solar and hydrogen become available.

"I just think the world's got to debate whether uranium-derived power is more dangerous than coal," he said.
"Coal is looking very dangerous; there ought to be a debate. My mind's not made up at this stage."

Prominent anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott says nuclear power production creates massive amounts of global warming gases and she describes it as a "cancer industry".
"It will over time produce epidemics of cancer - leukaemia and genetic disease, particularly in children," she said.

Greens Senator Bob Brown says the tide of public opinion is against it.
"It was sealed with Chernobyl, that was really the end," Senator Brown said.

THE plight of Schapelle Corby has inspired new parents across the country to name their daughters after her.