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What's the deal with that guy holding the Earth on his shoulders, and isn't he afraid he's going to tear a rotator cuff? Would "Icarus" be a good name for a new airline? Was Hercules juicin'? As long as we have been interested in past cultures, we have been fascinated by those cultures' mythologies - the stories that attempt to explain where we ... (more)

Have trouble committing things to memory? Cant recall the location of those glasses? Wish the remote control was in its usual spot? Poring over large blocks of text isnt always the easiest way to cement facts, dates and definitions in that spongy thought called the brain.

When each student reaches the age of 16, they are submitted to a period of training, then given access to a lethal weapon and sent out into the world to try to survive.

Remember when you graduated from the sixth grade and immediately went to interview for a CEO position at a national company? Didn't go so well, did it? Especially when they asked for your references and you provided the contact information for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .

The school year is almost over, and if that wasn't enough of an excuse to celebrate, here's some news to put one more feather in your party hat.

YA Book Convention: UtopYA , the first ever convention for female paranormal/fantasy young adult authors and their fans, will be held at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, TN, July 6-8. There will be session tracks for writers to help them improve their craft and panels where fans can interact with them.

At some point in our lives, each of us is inevitably faced with the prospect of having to go out and get one of those "job" things.

Supposing a student does want to be president, the first step along the way to getting his or her fanny into that big chair in the big office is acing the AP exams.