Help Wanted: 11 Million College Grads

This spring more than 2 million students across the US are doing something I’ve never done. They’re graduating from college.

That’s an achievement we should all celebrate. Although I dropped out of college and got lucky pursuing a career in software, getting a degree is a much surer path to success.

Good And Bad News Of High Fructose Corn Syrup

High-fructose corn syrup is a common sweetener in sodas and fruit-flavored drinks. As use of high-fructose corn syrup has increased, so have levels of obesity and related health problems, leading some to wonder if there’s a connection.

In the United States, HFCS is among the sweeteners that have primarily replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. Factors for this include governmental production quotas of domestic sugar, subsidies of U.S. corn, and an import tariff on foreign sugar, all of which combine to raise the price of sucrose to levels above those of the rest of the world, making HFCS cheapest for many sweetener applications

Good And Bad News Of High Fructose Corn Syrup

Former professional wrestler Dusty Rhodes dead at 69

In this Nov. 13, 2014 photo released by Starpix, WWE wrestler Dusty Rhodes, whose real name is Virgil Runnels, poses at the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundations 12th Annual Gala in New York. The WWE said Runnels died Thursday, June 11, 2015, but a spokesman declined to say where or how he passed away, saying the family had not authorized the release of that information. He was 69. (Dave Allocca/Starpix via AP)

WWE says Virgil Runnels, a former professional wrestler known by his fans as Dusty Rhodes, has died. He was 69.

Adepoju urges Falcons raise against Australia

Warri (Delta) – A former Super Eagles player, Mutiu Adepoju has commended the Super Falcons’ 3-3 drawn game against the Swedish National Women team in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. - See more at:

Adepoju on Tuesday that in as much as he had desired an outright victory for the National team, the eventual outcome was good enough. He, however, urged the players to raise their game against the Australians if they must qualify for the next stage of the competition. The former coach of the Shooting Stars (3SC) of Ibadan said the first game in every tournament was very important, "it goes a long way to determine whether a team will advance.

Nigerian offline library opens access to all

An ambitious offline project plans to give millions of students in the developing world access to online resources.

More than 110 million people in Nigeria are still not connected to the internet largely because of poor infrastructure and a lack of fiber and mobile networks make it expensive and unreliable.

Healing With Herbs

For centuries now, traditional Chinese healers have been using herbal remedies and herbal therapy to cure a host of health problems. There has been a resurgence in the use of these herbal treatments in general, and of a herbal plant called the thunder god vine (lei gong teng) in particular. This plant is used to cure many health issues, including rheumatoid arthritis. A new report has been recently published in the Nature Chemical Biology journal, which is written by scientists from the Johns — and they think they now know how it works. Thunder god vine (lei gong teng) contains compounds that help control the "machinery" of genes on the cellular level.

Depression – Symptoms & Types

Depression is believed to be the number one cause of disability in the world. In the United States alone, more than 17% of the population will experience varying degrees of depression at some point in their lives.