College launches online bidding system for courses by The American News Service Move over, E-Bay. The online bidding system, run by Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration, avoids the endless paperwork and frustration usually involved in college course registration. A renewed effort is being made to alert women and members of minority groups about the dangers of eating fish from Lake Michigan and smaller, inland lakes that remain highly contaminated by toxic chemicals. While warnings commonly have been handed out with fishing licenses to a predominantly male fishing population, the information often didn't reach their wives, who traditionally cooked the catch. Now, those warnings are being distributed to churches, retirement homes, heritage festivals, women's centers and social service agencies.
Some children love school.
While teachers and students' parents may believe that something is wrong with these children, Professor Steven Reiss doesn't think so. Reiss, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, has spent five years developing and testing a new theory of human motivation. The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities. As voters head to the polls, agonizing over their choices all the way, students around the country are trying to plow through the last of their lessons on America's electoral process. The Web site offers tips, tools, resources and background for teachers to use with their students in exploring the media and election process in their classrooms.