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• Pelosi meets al-Maliki in surprise trip to Iraq
Their revolt was spurred by Democratic tactics in advancing the must-pass measure, as well as their efforts to add money for the unemployed and an expansion of GI education benefits to the bill.
• After quake, 1-child policy causes pain
Nearly 6,900 classrooms collapsed, government officials said Friday, in an admission that highlighted a chronically underfunded education system especially in small towns and compounded the anger of many Chinese over the quake.
• Louisiana teen accused of poisoning teacher
Investigators said the Concordia Education Center student is alleged to have put about three-fourths of a bottle of eye drops into the teacher's drink on May 5.
• U.S. Marine guilty of sexual abuse in Japan
The incident prompted the U.S. military to severely restrict troop movements on Okinawa and elsewhere and conduct an ongoing review of its anti-sexual assault education programs and guidelines.
• Aftershocks spark landslides in China
Education and housing officials, meanwhile, took the rare move of fielding questions online from angry Chinese citizens over the many children who died in the quake.

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» Electronic Research Center - Associated with the Iran University of Science and Technology. Site describes research activities and lists staff.
» IRAN SchoolNET - Directory of links for Iranian school, university and career resources.
» Iran-Student.Net - A student advisory for Iranian students in UK. Details about the services, a guide to scholarship programs and universities including discussion forums, highlights of seminars and useful links.
» Niroo Research Institute - Specializes in research organization in the electric power industry. Offers consulting, research and design solutions.
» Noor Microfilm Center - Creates microfilms of Persian and Islamic manuscripts preserved in the private collections and government libraries all over India. The complete catalogue of microfilms provided.
» Salam Iran - The Higher Education Advisory of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Canada supervises the work of the Iranian students in Canada and provides Canadian universities with information they might need about the Iranian education system.
» SchoolNet - Online community for Iranian high school students which includes message boards, guide to computers and the Internet, English-Persian dictionary and directory of school web sites.
» Science and Arts Foundation - Providing Internet services and computing facilities to Iranian high schools nationwide.
» Sharif Net - Bulletin board for Iranian academics worldwide.