Could Super Mario Galaxy(TM) be the best video game of all time? If you ask critics and consumers, the answer is a resounding yes. Reviewers for video game and mainstream media alike are responding with high marks to the boundless sense of wonder and fun the game brings to both experienced and novice players. Independent review-tracking site GameRankings.com now lists Super Mario Galaxy for Nintendo's Wii(TM) system as the best-reviewed game of all time, and another review-tracking site, Metacritic.com, lists Super Mario Galaxy as having "Universal Acclaim," with a score of 98 out of 100.

Nearly 500 people turned out at Urban Prep Charter Academy on Thursday, November 15, 2007 for Allstate Insurance Company's announcement that they will provide the online version of Harvard Professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s encyclopedia Encarta Africana to all Chicago Public High Schools for three years as part of their "Beyond February" national campaign. Chicago Public School Board President Rufus Williams accepted the donation from Dr. Gates on behalf of 140 schools that will have access to this award-winning multimedia encyclopedia of black history and culture.

The National Adoption Day Coalition joined President George W. Bush at the White House today honoring the annual nationwide celebration of adoption from foster care known as National Adoption Day. On Saturday, November 17, hundreds of communities in all 50 states will hold courtroom celebrations to finalize more than 3,330 adoptions of children from foster care, bringing the total number of finalized adoptions as part of National Adoption Day activities to more than 20,000.

"Mary Magdalene was not a Jewess but a Phoenician living in Israel when she became the first person to witness the all-important physical resurrection of Jesus in AD 30", said Don Stewart, London-based independent researcher whose analysis of William Flinders Petrie's excavations at Memphis revealed crucial evidence of one of Tyre's ('Migdol's) great ancient commercial bases in Memphis, Egypt.