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EDITORIAL: Rebooting the red-light-camera cash grab: Northern Virginia revives deadly ticket program
With studies showing that red light cameras lead to higher volumes of collisions and injuries, a need for additional revenues means they're getting reintroduced. If only they'd scrap them (and hopefully speed limits as well)
A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding
"As adults — teachers and counselors — we try to encourage them not to do that" - *sigh*
Dad's gift to the family? Cooking dinner: Yet only 13 percent of home meals are prepared by men
Part of the usual burst of stories surrounding fathers' day about how fathers need to more... but still a somewhat interesting thing to note. Now the big question: is Darren going to take up cheerleading or get a manicure?

Family

Part of Christianity Today's Global Conversations series:

What happens when a generation of young men grow up without families? These are the stories of young gang members incarcerated in a Central American prison. They tell of their hunger for belonging, heartache at the church's hostility, and hope that they can change and contribute to their communities.

HT: Z

Random links

Canadian cellphone firms get failing grade
"Canada's cellphone companies have each earned an F — the lowest possible rating by the Better Business Bureau." ... even the new ones to the market. Anyone particularly surprised?
Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery
An interesting look at the impact of North Korean economics on the lives of its inhabitants. It also makes some references to churches in there, which I wasn't quite expecting from the New York Times
Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated
No surprises there. That said, you can get some tips from student evaluations, but the written feedback seems more important to me.
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed
Freaky - contraceptive corn! Reminds me a little of Children of Men

A couple more site changes

First off, search is back and is now hanging out on the right sidebar. Somehow the search box disappeared while switching themes.

Second, the WYSIWYG editor is still installed, but it's no longer the default. It was starting to drive me crazy.

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