step down. pappen day yew narrowly avoided a vote of confidence. and how the greek confidence could impact your wallet. 19 occupy protesters were arrested near a park in downtown atlanta saturday night. according to police, protesters were given verbal warning to be out of the park by 11:00 p.m. or face arrests, leading some to pour into the streets, disrupting traffic. one protester was charged with aggravated assault and obstruction for assaulting a motorcycle officer. in central oklahoma, they are cleaning up from the strongest earthquake on record there. the 5.6 magnitude quake hit right before midnight eastern time. no one was seriously hurt, but some homes and businesses were damaged. and at least three sections of a u.s. highway buckled there. people from texas to iowa felt the quake which has triggered at least 30 aftershocks. coming up in about ten minutes, we ll give you a closer look at the damage from this record-breaking quake. entertainer andy williams has
100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 won t graduate from high school. a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what s odd is that we ve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over $10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we ll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education here on this special essay. we ll examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. and we ask
Federal politicians have criticized the Alberta Energy Regulator following two releases of oilsands wastewater at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine earlier this year.