2008 Woodie Awards
Students at the University of Massachusetts are being on watched daily through the lenses of 471 operating security cameras at various locations throughout campus, 70 percent of which are located in residence halls. These cameras go unnoticed by most people who walk by, but they're there when anyone exits or enters the Campus Center, Student Union, any of the dining commons, Isenberg School of Management and all of the residence halls on campus.
You don't see two buzzer-beaters in the same game very often. But last night, in the first-round NIT game between the Massachusetts men's basketball team and the Alabama Crimson Tide, it happened. The Minutemen won, 89-87, but not before the two teams gave the fans some near heart attacks.
It may not take a business major to know the value of getting the most bang for one's buck, but the 3,131 undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Massachusetts' Isenberg School of Management are doing just that, as the school has been ranked highest overall among undergraduate, public business schools in the Northeast.
After weeks of negotiations, the Stop & Shop company and local union leaders have agreed to settle on a new, three-year contract, ending the possibility of over 43,000 workers going on strike. The decision to accept the company's newly drafted proposal happened on Sunday, when the five local unions involved in the dispute met throughout locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Timing is everything, or so the saying goes. Every second counts in daily situations - making it to work on time, using every second of a lunch break, counting down the minutes until an employee can punch out and go home or how many minutes a teenager has left until curfew is broken.
ATLANTA - Georgia is poised to introduce two literature classes on the Bible in public schools next year, a move some critics say would make the state the first to take an explicit stance endorsing and funding biblical teachings. The Bible already is incorporated into some classes in Georgia and other states, but some critics say the board's move, which makes the Bible the classes' main text, treads into dangerous turf.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Gov. Bill Richardson signed a measure Monday that outlaws cockfighting in New Mexico, leaving Louisiana as the only state where the centuries-old bloodsport remains legal. State Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, who has introduced legislation to ban cockfighting over the past 18 years, thanked Richardson, who until this legislative session had declined to take a stance on the issue.
BOSTON - The head of Massachusetts' social services on Monday called for the release of 20 factory workers arrested in an immigration raid, saying many have children with no one else to care for them. They were among the 361 people taken into custody following the raid March 6 at a Michael Bianco Inc.
LOS ANGELES - Scientists believe heat from radioactive decay inside a tiny, icy Saturn moon shortly after it formed billions of years ago may explain why geysers are erupting from the surface today. The Cassini spacecraft last year beamed back dazzling images of Yellowstone-like geysers spewing from a warm section on Enceladus, raising the possibility that the moon, which has an overall surface temperature of about minus-330 degrees, may have an internal environment suitable for primitive life.