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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow’s Khimki Forest

Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow’s Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country’s most famous musicians and one of the world’s biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building a highway through an ancient oak forest near

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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow’s Khimki Forest

Notre Dame Begins Test Run of iPads With a Paperless Course

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The University of Notre Dame is taking the use of e-readers in classrooms seriously, embarking on a one year study of how the devices integrate into classrooms. The first course to have students use an iPad instead of any text books is Project Management, a class with 40 students that will not only use the iPad as a book, but will also be encouraged to use it for everything else in daily life and report back their impressions (hmmm, could that possibly have been at Apple’s request?). Apple is making a big push to turn iPads into the next big thin… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Notre Dame Begins Test Run of iPads With a Paperless Course