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Star Tech Lack of Primary Education Worldwide: A Look at the UN Millenium Goal Working to Make Primary Education Universal Jerica Moses Contributing Writer Did you know that only one in every five children in the world has access to basic pri mary education? Did you know that there are about 77 million children who are not receiving primary education? In 2000, the new millenni um was accompanied by the 189 countries coming together and developing the eight UN Millennium Goals that are believed to be reached by 2015. Countries that agreed to this plan ranged from our most developed countries to our poorest and most imdeveloped countries in the world. One of the eight UN Millennium Goals is to achieve universal pri mary education for all children. It is the goal to ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary educa tion, whidt consists of schooling up through fifth grade. While we are at Meredith and are sur- roimded by peers who are receiving college educations, it is hard to believe that around the Kristen Certo Contributing Writer If you are looking to support the moral deg radation of American culture, be sure to see The Heartbreak Kid (2007). The directors, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, also known as the Farrelly world there are millions of children who do not get the opportunity to receive what we believe to be a necessity and a right, not a privilege. There are many reasons why children aroimd the world are not given the opportunity to receive primary educa tion. One reason is that in many countries educa tion is not provided by the government, but from the people's own pockets. In many imdeveloped countries they do not have the money to enable their children to attend school. It is more produc tive for the children to be out in the workforce and make money than for them to be spend ing money to receive an education. Other fami lies do not believe that education now will help with the business that their family is focusing on later. Cluldren are forced and voluntarily go into the workforce all around the world. They work ridiculous hours for practically nothing. The movie Stolen Childhoods is a great representa tion of what is going on with children around the Brothers, took the say ing "if at first you don't succeed, try again" seri ously after their other flicks like The Ringer, Me, Myself and Irene, and Dumb and Dumberer. In the romantic comedy The Heartbreak Kid, the humor has nothing to offer; it is crude and repetitive. In world. These children, who we believe should be in school, are out in the fields picking cof fee or in small cramped shacks making rugs. On a taxi ride in St. Thomas, 1 asked the driver to tell me a little about the coimtry which he willingly did. The conversation went into how many people came to live in St. Thomas. He told me that most people had moved there to work. He then went on to his own life story telling me that, where he was from, it was expected for the children to stop their education and find work if a parent passed away. He did receive his primary education, but it ended in sixth grade. He went on to tell me that he was lucky that he received as much educa tion as he did and very few of his friends got any primary education. This story intrigued me. 1 had learned about the UN Millenniiun Goals and how many children do not receive a primary education, but to meet Education cont. on pg. 6 addition, the tone is just another of the movie's faults. If you have never seen a romantic comedy that makes you despise the very thought of love. The Heartbreak Kid can remedy that. It is a mud dle of bad morals, bad Heartbreak cont. on pg. 6 Still stuck on FM? Yep, I am too-but we may be behind the times. In ^is digital age, tuning a dial is becoming totally uncool. Satellite radio offers many advantages to tra ditional analog signal radio stations. For start ers, there are no com mercials; also, stations are available from coast to coast, so Axmt Joan in Califorrua can listen to the same shows and music as Uncle Jimmy in New York. News broad casts, weather, sports, talk shows ... oh yeah, and radio, too: satellite radio offers all these and more. A few compaiues offer satellite radio subscrip- tiorxs; XM and SIRIUS are perhaps the most well known. SIRIUS subscrip tions cost about $13 a month (cheaper by the year) or $500 for ^e life time of a satellite radio. Visit http://www.sirius. com/ to try a free three- day trial of SIRIUS satel lite radio, listen to online satellite radio (after you have a subscription), or leam more information about SIRIUS. Seriously, it might be fun. With 170 digital chan nels, XM radio is offered monthly for about $13 or as low as $10 for a multi year subscription. Visit http://www.xmradio. com/ to browse XM sta tions, find stations play ing your favorite artists, find the subscription thafs right for you, listen online and find out more information. >Satellite radios are avail able for home, vehicle. Chelsea McGIaughlin Staff Writer and on-the-go folks; General Motors and Hyxmdai even offer XM radio for their vehicles. What are the advan tages of High-definition digital radio (HD radio)? According to the web site http://www.hdradio. com/, ihe main benefits are CD-quality sound for FM stations and FM- quality soimd for AM stations. Broadcasting with a digital audio sig nal combined with the conventional analog sig nal allows HD radio to provide more than one broadcast over a single channel and to include textual data such as art ists' names, song titles, weather and traffic infor mation. According to a September 26 USA Today article, the automotive company Ford is pla ning to make HD radio available on nearly all 2008 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models. BMW is also offering HD radio as an option for its line up. I would guess that many other automotive comparues will follow suit, offering HD radio as options on their vehicles as well. UrUike satellite radio, HD radio is free after you purchase a receiver. Receivers are available online and in multiple retail stores, including Radio Shack, Target, Circuit City and Best Buy. They cost about $200 and are available for home and car. As long as your favorite radio station is broadcasting in HD, you'll be good to go. In Raleigh-Durham, there are nine stations broad casting twelve HD radio channels, with two more channels coming soon. The Heartbreak Kid: Heartbreak ing Indeed
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