Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has appointed Carlton Masters as Jamaica’s first-ever representative to the African Union. Masters’ appointment also includes the post of Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, and assumes the rank of Ambassador. The Office of the Prime Minister said his role would be to “seek […]
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Follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A steady stream of teenagers fidgeting with forms and their backpacks flowed through the Midwood High School college office one day this month, all with lists of questions on their minds. But one of the school’s two college counselors was nowhere to be found. She had taken refuge in another
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork I CAN recall it as if it were yesterday: looking into the toilet and seeing blood instead of urine. That was the aftermath of my first police encounter. As a 15-year-old, living in South Jamaica, Queens, I was arrested on a criminal trespass charge after unlawfully entering and remaining in
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Follow Us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork An explosion of on-demand apps gives a modern twist to some old traditions and even delivers us some new ones we didn’t know we needed. October 29 was a typical workday for thousands of people in the US, except for one thing: a fuzzy kitten showed up on their desks.
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NEARLY a century ago, Harvard had a big problem: Too many Jews. By 1922, Jews accounted for 21.5 percent of freshmen, up from 7 percent in 1900 and vastly more than at Yale or Princeton. In the Ivy League, only Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania had
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork When your server is a screen, you spend more money. Have you ever been to a Chili’s? Have you ever placed an order for the World-Famous Baby Back Ribs? Have you ever decided to, what the heck, make it a Full Rack, with some Homestyle Fries and Cinnamon Apples on the
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Chili’s, the casual-dining chain, will begin to offer customers access to tabletop computer screens at more than 800 locations in the U.S., starting Tuesday rolling out through early 2014. The Wall Street Journal reports customers will be able to use the tablets to order food and drinks, pay the bill,
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ATLANTA — This city would seem a peculiar place for sober conversation about the conduct of William T. Sherman. To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The New York Police Department will begin equipping all of its officers with smartphones and outfitting many police cars with tablet computers in an effort to modernize the nation’s largest police force, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced on Thursday. The program, the N.Y.P.D. Mobility Initiative, will distribute 41,000 devices
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GALVESTON, Tex. — Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said
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