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The United Arab Emirates has pledged up to $1 million to provide new Apple laptops to high school students in Joplin, Mo.

He’s an in-demand producer, chart-topping artist, and multimedia entrepreneur — and now will.i.am can add “cultural ambassador” to his list of job descriptions. Responding to a request from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Black Eyed Pea has agreed to lead a benefit concert in Beijing, with the goal of encouraging more American students to study in China.

A local Florida teacher took discipline to a whole new (read: bizarre) level last week when she reportedly taped her chatty student's mouth shut with packing tape. 13-year-old seventh grader Jazlyn Freel claims the incident took place during a routine science class. "She asked me to stop talking, and then a couple minutes went by, and I started to talk again, and she came to me and put it on