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☆ A former corporate lawyer died after falling from a luxury liner, reports say. One expert says cruise safety is outdated.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementWhile the chances of falling overboard on a cruise ship are extremely low , a cruise ship expert told Business Insider that the industry's safety protocols needed updating. Sophie Elizabeth Blythe-Tinker told the court her father "wasn't himself" and had become "increasingly abnormal" during his time on board, per the Telegraph. Cruise ship safetyRoss Klein, an international authority on the cruise ship industry, told BI he believes cruise ship safety rules are outdated. He said no substantial changes have been made to cruise ship safety since the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010. AdvertisementKlein is "not very hopeful" about actionable change regarding cruise safety in the near future "because nobody's pushing for changes."

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☆ ‘Chowchilla’ details how 26 kids were buried alive in California – and how they escaped
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Holly Yan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. The Dairyland Union School District bus carrying 26 children and their bus driver was found empty and abandoned in July 1976. The kidnappers ordered the children and their bus driver into a moving van hidden underground. Bus driver Edward Ray speaks to reporters in 1976. “Chowchilla children are heroes,” she said in the CNN Film.

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☆ Israel-Hamas War Palestinian Deaths Could Exceed the Cited Toll, a U.S. Official Tells Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Michael Crowley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

On the steps of the New York Public Library, demonstrators waved flags and called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. The march in Midtown closed sections of Fifth Avenue before protesters turned onto 34th Street, snarling evening commute traffic. Tensions have risen on college campuses in recent weeks as the debate over the Israel-Hamas war has divided student groups and roiled campus life. Fadi Shuman, a computer science undergraduate who is Palestinian, said he was upset Columbia wasn’t doing more to combat Islamophobia on campus. Credit... Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesLuis Cruz, 19, who traveled to Bryant Park from Staten Island, said he was glad to see students in the crowd.

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Members of Hezbollah carry the coffin of Hezbollah member Abbas Shuman, who was killed in southern Lebanon amidst tension between Israel and Hezbollah, during his funeral in Baalbek, Lebanon, October 23, 2023. With most of its fighters killed in Israeli drone strikes, Hezbollah has unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would unleash devastation on Lebanon if a war did start. Hezbollah lost 263 fighters in the 2006 war, when Israel hit sites all over Lebanon during a more than month-long conflict. The war erupted after Hezbollah launched a raid into Israel and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

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☆ To Test the A.I. Learning Hype, I Visited Classrooms
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Natasha Singer | More About Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. In January, Marisa Shuman, a computer science teacher at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx, invited me to spend a few days embedded in her classroom. Her school, a public middle and high school for girls, specializes in math, science and technology. As a reporter who has spent years chronicling how tech companies and their tools are reshaping public schools, I jumped at the chance. At the time, ChatGPT was beginning to blow up in schools and on college campuses.

Persons: Marisa Shuman, ChatGPT Organizations: Young Women’s, School, Tech

☆ Some New York City high schoolers reportedly don't like ChatGPT-created lessons, calling them 'biased' and 'very bland'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Bronx high school teacher asked ChatGPT to make a lesson plan and script on wearable tech, per NYT. Students followed the lesson as part of an experiment — and they were unhappy with the results. Jayda Arias, an 18-year old student, told the Times that the lesson was "very bland" and that it "reminded me of fourth grade." The classroom experiment comes as teachers at schools inside and outside of New York grapple with how to integrate ChatGPT into their curriculums. Shuman's ChatGPT lesson experiment was part of that approach.

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