The U.S. congress is likely to face a fiscal cliff this upcoming season. A fiscal cliff is a series of tax increases and spending cuts. The Congress will face this if the republicans and democrats don't come to an agreement on the deficit. If they don't there will be a $110 billion dollar cut on everything from education to food inspections. I think that the republicans and democrats NEED to agree on a deficit because these businesses can not afford this big of a budget cut.
Students at Florida A&M University, FAMU, will be required to sign an anti-hazing pledge to be able to attend the school. Hazing is when someone has to do a series of things involving harassment , abuse, dangerous activities, and humiliation as an initiation to get into some sort of group. The reason that this school is making everyone sign this pledge is because last year a member of the marching bad was killed in a hazing accident. There was also a report of the same thing happening to a girl on the dance team. Personally I don't think that this pledge will help that much with anti-hazing. For instance, a lot of people sign a pledge not to do drugs or drink and drive, but a lot of people still do it anyway. There is not really any way to stop this, but there are other ways that they could prevent it. Teachers should be responsible for admitting all students into functions. Also there should be a closer look at groups of kids doing this on their own.
Boston Dynamics has recently built a number of robots that can do a variety of things. Some of them can run fast and some of them can get through very difficult terrain. One of the robots that they built, named Marvel, actually beat Usian Bolts world record which was 27.78 miles per hour. Marvel's record was 28.3 miles per hour. These robots could be used for a number of things. Including helping the army, being sent to outer space, etc.
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