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Classroom cultures that favor female students and an increase in learning disabilities may explain the academic gap. By Margarita Bauza / The Detroit News PLYMOUTH — The nation’s boys are slipping and researchers say it’s time to worry. According to the U.S. Department of Education, boys have fallen behind girls in academic achievement. Fewer boys…

From Vijaya das, I was distributing in the airport and it was becoming very frustrating, no one would take a book. Then I started to chant a verse that usually comes to mind during these times: tat te ‘nukampAM susamIkSamANo bhunjAna evAtma-kRtaM vipAkam hRd-vAg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te jIveta yo mukti-pade sa dAya-bhAk Prabhupada’s explanation found…

Accra, Jan. 9, GNA – The Hare Krishna Movement in Ghana on Saturday reached out to the ordinary people in society, when they feted and entertained about 5,000 people as part of their religious and social responsibility. Currently, with a national population of about 5,000, since its introduction into the country in 1981, the movement…

By Michael Conlon CHICAGO (Reuters) – In the world of bug-eating, bungee-jumping reality television, here’s a twist: Christian missionaries living a travelogue life while viewers watch their aches, pains and trials trying to spread the Gospel. It makes for a surprisingly slick programme, a cross between vintage Lowell Thomas and Paul of Tarsus with cheap…

POSTED: 11:25 am EST January 7, 2005 WASHINGTON — As far as the U.S. government is concerned, the former Cat Stevens is still a baddie. Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam is still barred from entering the United States because of intelligence that identifies him as a security threat. Homeland Security Secretary…

Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday. Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography. Mary Anne Layden, co-director…

Once Mani Bandha Prabhu from Perth, was telling me that many people who win the lotto end up, within a few years, in a lesser financial situation than before they bought the winning ticket. Often times they may stay financially afloat but they regret all of the turmoil generated by being immediately thrust into wealth…

We live in an age of selfishness and self indulgence. If the same amount of money were given to a pure devotee he could use it to benefit a lot of people. Anyway, here’s the article … 🙁 Colleen McCain Nelson Dallas Morning News Dec. 22, 2004 05:51 PM DALLAS – The cat’s out of…

Please accept my greeting and blessings of Lord Krsna. I am in due receipt of your kind card wishing me the best for the new year coming of 1973, and I thank you very much for thinking of me in this way. As you are thinking of me, so also I am sometimes thinking of…