New Timeline

By diana.ca

  • New LA Timeline

    Study links teenage bullying to social statusScientists have confirmed an axiom of teenage life: Kids intent on climbing the social ladder at school are more likely to pick on their fellow students....
    However, those who were in the top 2% of a school's social hierarchy generally didn't harass their fellow students. At that point, they may have had little left to gain by being mean, and picking on others only made them seem insecure, Faris said. By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
    February 7, 2011, 9:04 p.m.

  • Global Warming

    New York TimesThe 11th Hour Trailer
    The Chinese have pledged to cut their carbon intensity — the rate at which they allow emissions to grow — but what the world will eventually need is net reductions. The United States, embarrassingly enough, has no national strategy. Congress’s failure to pass a comprehensive climate bill has left President Obama with little to work with...the world has a slim chance of bringing emissions under control.