Salmon Khan, a 36 year old MIT and Harvard Business School graduate, has created www.KhanAcadaemy.org that provides over 3000 mini-lectures on line serving people throughout the world without charge. As of early February, the web site had already delivered 119 million lessons.

(Updated at 3:00 PM Saturday): J. P. McCaskey Mock Trial team placed second in a 5 – 5 tie breaker for the Pennsylvania State Mock Trial Championship. According to a short message from Coach Kevin Webster “Both teams were amazing.”

The U.S. has, by far, the highest total expenditure on health care per capita. America spends approximately $2,600 more per person annually than Norway, the second-highest spender. Only 47.7% of this amount is public expenditure — the third-smallest percentage among developed countries. However, the actual amount of public spending, $3,795, is among the highest.

From USA TODAY / AP: Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood selections more sustainable…

From USA TODAY:…. The court-appointed investigator who found rampant misconduct in the corruption prosecution of former Alaska senator Ted Stevens said during a Senate hearing Wednesday that federal prosecutors’ actions were “illegal,” but he stopped short of suggesting they should be charged with crimes….

From the PENNSYLVANIA INDEPENDENT: The Florida stand-your-ground law may be preventing authorities from charging the man accused of shooting teenager Trayvon Martin. But under the same circumstances in Pennsylvania, which has a similar law, charges would have been filed.

From the NEW YORK TIMES: Stung by a cheating scandal involving dozens of Long Island high school students, the SAT and ACT college entrance exams will now require students to provide a photograph when they sign up for the exams, and officials will check those images against the identification the students present when they take the test.

From NEWSMAX: World temperatures have remained virtually unchanged in the past 10 years despite predictions of global warming and America’s mildest winter in decades, Princeton physics professor William Happer contends… “CO2 is not a pollutant,” he wrote. “Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today.

From NEWSMAX: Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who played a key role in passage of President Obama’s healthcare reform legislation, confirms to NewsmaxTV that the Senate considered Gov. Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform in Massachusetts as “solid precedent” for Obamacare. The Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat also says that based on Rick Santorum’s policies, voters have a firm basis to reject his presidential candidacy.

From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …In a statement issued on Monday, [former President Bill Clinton] praised Kane, a former deputy district attorney in Lackawanna County, as being “smart and tough.” He also expressed his hope that she will become the state’s first female elected attorney general.

From the DAILY BEAST: At times, Occupy Wall Street has been electrifying: the epic stand on “sanitation day” in October, when Mayor Bloomberg announced he would close Zuccotti Park for “cleaning” as a means of evicting the movement only to back down when occupiers furiously scrubbed the sidewalk through the overnight, and thousands joined them to defend the park at dawn, filling it to bursting;