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Maoists blockade Nepal's capital

AFP - 2 hours 21 minutes ago

Maoist activists on Tuesday blocked all roads in and out of Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the latest stage of a two-week protest against the government.

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Students to hold carnival with South Asian customs
TCU Daily Skiff - Sat Nov 7, 12:50 am ET
The Brown-Lupton University Union Auditorium will be filled with sounds of Bollywood music and the smell of South Asian foods this Saturday evening. The Students for Asian Intercultural Awareness plans to hold a Mela carnival Saturday to educate students about South Asian customs.
Nepal's Cabinet to meet at Everest base camp to highlight threat from global warming
WGN TV Chicago - Mon Nov 2, 4:48 am ET
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
Meet Sanctuary's Amanda Tapping and help out her charity!
Sci Fi Wire - Fri Nov 6, 2:39 pm ET
How much do we love Sanctuary 's Amanda Tapping? A lot more since we've heard about her new charitable foundation, "Sanctuary for Kids," designed to support charities that provide aid to children in crisis.
Environmentalist Luc Hardy - Pied piper to the Arctic
Greenwich Citizen - Fri Nov 6, 1:07 am ET
Luc Hardy, a resident of Cos Cob where he lives with his wife and two daughters, is an intrepid French-American explorer on an environmental mission. His day job is as a venture capitalist, but last year he led a 16-person expedition within 500 miles of the North Pole, to the Canadian Arctic.
Newsflash: Urubko and Dedeshko win Asian Piolet d'Or
MountEverest.net - Fri Nov 6, 4:05 pm ET
03:00 pm CST Nov 06, 2009 (MountEverest.net) ExplorersWeb's Korea correspondent Kyu Dam Lee reports from the Seoul Garden Hotel today that Kazakh Denis Urubko and Boris Dedeshko won the 4th Piolet d’Or Asia for their climb of Cho Oyu's SE face in Alpine style.
Mont Blanc shrinks by foot-and-a-half
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 5, 10:12 am ET
Western Europe's tallest peak, the snow-capped Alpine giant Mont Blanc, has shrunk by 45 centimetres (18 inches) in two years, experts said Thursday following an official survey.
The north wall of Chang Himal: check!
MountEverest.net - Fri Nov 6, 12:06 pm ET
10:15 am CST Nov 06, 2009 (MountEverest.net) On Alpinist's to-do-list as one of the great unclimbed faces, a few days back Chang Himal’s 1,500m north wall was reportedly sent by Andy Houseman and fellow Brit Nick Bullock.
Moving on, reaching out
The Fairfield Citizen - Fri Nov 6, 11:57 am ET
It is very difficult to recognize Julie Mughal's Upstate New York accent. It may be there, if she takes a moment to slow down her speech. At the fast-clipped rate she usually talks, one hears an accent from other lands.
INDIANA'S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER
DePauw - Fri Nov 6, 10:36 am ET
Professor Rebecca Upton didn't have to look far for someone to live in her house on Indiana Street while she took sabbatical in Botswana this school year. Juniors Elizabeth Ratchford and Katherine Straus approached the sociology and anthropology with a unique proposition.
Big honor comes to a local teacher
The Press-Enterprise - Fri Nov 6, 2:33 am ET
The accolades kept coming throughout the day Thursday for Amber Carrow, a world history teacher at Chemawa Middle School in Riverside. "Ms. Carrow is the best teacher in the world," was one of several messages left by her seventh-grade students on a whiteboard in her classroom. One student handed her a note with several congratulatory comments including "You rock, Ms. Carrow!"
'Playing For Change': 'etown' brings YouTube sensation to Denver (VIDEO)
Colorado Daily - Fri Nov 6, 11:19 am ET
Mark Johnson believes that the power of music can unite the world, so he set off on a four-year journey to create the groundbreaking documentary "Playing For Change."
Gender economics: Writer shares grim saga of developing world
Lancaster Online - Fri Nov 6, 6:21 am ET
In some parts of the world, young girls can be bought and sold like shoes.Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, knows this because he bought two of them."And I have the receipts to prove it," Kristof told a packed house at Franklin & Marshall College...
Nepal govt says coffers empty, can't pay ministers
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 2, 4:29 am ET
The Nepalese government has run out of money for essential services including hospitals and schools after the Maoist party blocked its new budget, the finance minister said Monday.
Travel reading: Book offers ideas for volunteering around the world
The Salt Lake Tribune - Fri Nov 6, 8:10 am ET
Many travelers want to use their vacation time to volunteer and make a difference. A new book, Frommer's 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference , can help with that altruistic goal.
National Zoo's oldest male sloth bear dies
Washington Post - Thu Nov 5, 12:00 am ET
The National Zoo's oldest male sloth bear, Merlin, died Wednesday after surgery to repair a partially twisted spleen. It was the zoo's third animal death in a month.