By Rabinowitz, Dan Shamir, Ronen Should online petitions have a say? The tension surrounding Barnard College's determination of whether to grant tenure to anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj was resolved this fall. Barnard reached a positive decision.

BLOOMINGTON - Jeannette Walls, journalist and author of "The Glass Castle," will give the keynote address at the McLean County Women of Distinction awards banquet on May 22. The banquet will be at Illinois State University's Brown Ballroom, with a social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m.

A controversial work of scholarship on the Middle East is a tenure fight at New York's Barnard College.

By Lisa Pemberton, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash. Feb. 26--Keeping journals. That's Susan Barnard's secret to sanity.

By Serena Gordon, HealthDay ReporterHealthDayNews -- Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them.That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers."These children are actually creating language.