Does College Make You Smarter? - Room for Debate 

First there was the news that students in American universities study

 a lot less than they used to. Now we hear, in a recent book titled

 "Academically Adrift," that 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates

 learn very little

SPLATNAV! UK pensioners drive into German church 

Two British pensioners landed in hospital in southern Germany 

after their car's global positioning system directed them to drive into a church

Don't copy Arizona immigration law, top Florida Republican warns

 TALLAHASSEE — As a fifth-generation rancher and citrus farmer,

 Adam Putnam has a personal stake in an immigration overhaul, 

one of the most heated issues in Washington and Florida

Proposed Republican law would override local wage protection efforts

State Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville, filed a bill Tuesday that 

would “preempt regulation of wage theft to state, except as 

otherwise provided by federal law, & supersedes any municipal or county ordinance 

Florida's unemployment steady but labor force increases by 7,000 in December 

Florida's jobless rate remained unchanged at a staggering 12 percent

just shy of a modern-era record whiile the national rate fell from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent.

Billionaires take a stand for the working man 

WHO SAYS the corporate media doesn't care about the opinions 

of ordinary people? There have been lots of articles lately about 

what workers think, written by the people who study them the most--bosses.

Low-power FM Radio Stations to Increase in Number 

Advocates for low-power FM, or LPFM, as it is called, say the stations

 are a slight corrective to the consolidation of commercial radio.

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