UC Irvine Extension Announces Summer Agile Training Courses
Due to the continued need for professionals certified in Agile techniques, University of California, Irvine Extension announced today the availability of two online summer courses titled, “Agile Project Management II” and “Agile Certified Practitioner- Certification Preparation Course.” The courses will provide participants interested in Agile certification with techniques that have become ...

Why Obama’s in bed with abstinence-only education
In the week since sex educators and activists called out the Obama administration for getting in bed with Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, the Department of Health and Human Services has stayed silent on why the program had been added to a list of approved, “evidence based” programs for teen pregnancy and STI prevention – until now. In an interview with Salon, HHS spokesman Mark Weber said ...

Tale of Two E-Retailers: Study Finds U.S. Online Consumers Bigger Risk-Takers, More Trusting Than Korean Shoppers
Do you worry about your credit card number getting stolen after you've bought books, gifts or anything else online? When it comes to e-retailing, recent research from Ryerson University reveals online consumers in the United States are more trusting of companies' websites -- and are more willing to part with their hard-earned cash than consumers in Korea.

Clackamas County and Southwest Portland events roundup: festivals, farmers markets, carnival
Good morning Clackamas County. Welcome to a brand new week and my roundup of events in Happy Valley, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, West Linn, Wilsonville, on Mount Hood, and in other locales in Clackamas County, as well as Southwest Portland.

Right-wing sexual pathos
Imagine a high school teacher having to separate a smooching pair outside the classroom door to protect herself from being sued for condoning "gateway sexual activity." Envision a sex education class where the mention of homosexuality is forbidden by law and discussion of contraception, or even puberty, is deemed unnecessary. That's the world that would be created by a recent raft of abstinence ...

For Members
Backgrounder - Heritage Backgrounders give researchers the in-depth information they need on a wide variety of key issues. Abstract: Child poverty is an ongoing national concern, but few are aware that its principal cause is the absence of married fathers in the home.

On the rack: A cultural history of breasts
It's hard to be boobs. Sure, breasts are cherished as givers of milk and the pinnacle of sex appeal, but the modern world hasn't been good to mammaries. As Florence Williams writes in "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History," they're the most tumor-prone organ in the human body. They "soak up pollution like a pair of soft sponges," and transmit environmental toxins to babies through breast ...

Non, the French are not better moms
The "mommy war" between stay-at-home and working mothers is in danger of being overshadowed by another maddening contest: the one between mothers in the U.S. and France.

Budget test of Baillieu's claim to moderation
The differences between Labor and the Coalition are starkly defined.

Student gets 'valuable' education during French internship
HUNTSVILLE — It was perhaps the farthest thing from what she imagined when she first heard about an internship in France studying value-added agriculture.