Campaigners hail school decision to let pupils choose gender identity

Campaigners have welcomed a decision by a private girls’ school to allow students to use boys’ names and wear boys’ clothes should they wish under a new “gender identity protocol”. St Paul’s girls’ school in west London, whose former pupils include the MP Harriet Harman and the actor Rachel Weisz, will now consider requests from students from the age of 16 to go through a formal process to be known within the school either as boys or as gender-neutral.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/st-pauls-girls-school-pupils-choose-gender-indentity?source=Snapzu

Abe Lincoln’s Loveliest Spy

Amid the bloodiest throes of the Civil War, a beautiful actress in search of adventure donned disguises, dodged death, and slipped secretly behind Confederate lines.
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Blogger learns that it's never OK to talk down pizza

Pizza is love. Pizza is life.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/02/22/pizza-twitter-chrissy-teigen/?utm_cid=hp-n-1#0YS6mj5MBqq4?source=Snapzu

The 3 Types of Writing People Actually Want to Read

I remember the first time a piece I wrote was rejected by an Editor.
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Draft law to require warrants for border device searches

One senior senator says allowing any or all phones to be searched at the US border violates the constitution.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/article/draft-law-to-require-warrants-for-border-device-searches/?source=Snapzu

Plan to crack down on websites selling essays to students announced

Ministers concerned about the growing scale of cheating at university have announced a crackdown on so-called “essay mill” websites that provide written-to-order papers for students to submit as part of their degrees. Jo Johnson, the universities minister, has asked student bodies and institutions for guidance to help combat “contract plagiarism”, where tens of thousands of students are believed to be buying essays for hundreds of pounds a time.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/21/plan-to-crack-down-on-websites-selling-essays-to-students-announced?source=Snapzu

Tiny, poor, diabetes-wracked Pacific island nations want to ban junk food, despite risk of WTO retaliation

Experts say the region’s health crisis is primarily driven by a decades-long shift from traditional diets based on root crops toward ones that are high in sugar, refined starch and processed foods.
Read more: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/20/tiny-poor-diabetes-wracked-p.html?source=Snapzu