Chicago, IL March 11 / V-Newswire/ –Four years ago, Bryant Alexander watched his mother weep. She stared down at a muddle of D’s and F’s on his eighth-grade report card and threatened to kick him out. He had barely passed elementary school, and high school wasn’t even on his radar.
“Something just clicked,” Alexander, now 18, said. “I knew I had to do something.”
On Friday, Alexander proudly swapped his high school’s red uniform tie for a striped red and gold one — the ritual at Englewood’s Urban Prep Academy for Young Men that signifies a student has been accepted into college.
As the Roseland resident and 12 others tied their knots, Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school fulfilled its mission: 100 percent of its first senior class had been accepted to four-year colleges.
Mayor Richard Daley and city schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at the all-school assembly Friday morning with congratulations, and school leaders announced that as a reward, prom would be free.
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NEW YORK, March 10/ V-Newswire/ — Women have truly integrated social media into every part of their lives, from friends and family, to networking, to shopping. A recent 

North Carolina, March 10 / V-Newswire/ – Rand Soellner Architect is promoting “Going Green 4 Less” : a strategy to help custom home architects be Green Home Architects, selling the idea of using energy efficient home architects design systems, materials and methods, as well as recycling choices for sustainable home architecture. People are having a hard time staying afloat these days. In this trying economy, Green Home Architects have to present reasonable “Green” solutions, or clients won’t pay for them. Being politically correct can’t compare with paying one’s mortgage and putting food on the table.
ATLANTA, March 9/ V-Newswire/ — In an effort to empower consumers to improve their financial well-being, Equifax launched Equifax Debt Wise(TM), an innovative product that uses information from the Equifax Credit Report(TM) to enable consumers to create a plan for paying off their debt faster–without paying more in monthly payments than they already do! The average subscriber can save over $30,000 in interest and get out of debt 15 years quicker by following their Fast Pay Plan.
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., March 9 / V-Newswire/ — Honeywell’S (NYSE: HON) Genetron® R-245fa refrigerant is being used to help homeowners generate electricity from the sun’s heat while offsetting energy costs.







































