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Japanese Students Use Nintendo DS to Learn English

TOKYO – The Nintendo DS isn’t just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods. A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic …

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Report: Terror Suspects Plotted to Set Up Islamic State in Scotland

Two suspected Islamic jihadists were allegedly plotting to set up a separate state for “oppressed” Muslims — inside Scotland. During their terror trial in London, Aabid Khan and Sultan Muhammad, both 23, said they were trying to establish the state as a safe haven for other jihadists that would be …

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Seals' Island Is Dumping Ground for Marine Debris

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska – Huge, whiskered male fur seals called “beach masters” are back on St. Paul Island after swimming a gauntlet of lost or discarded fishing gear floating in the Bering Sea. The males, weighing up to 600 pounds, arrive at the island’s rookeries in May or early …

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