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Not the first time by a commercial ship

On: Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality

The SS Manhattan performed a crossing of the northwest passage in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Manhattan_(1962)

CS in Schools

On: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

An excellent method for teaching CS in middle and high schools is by using ALICE. Alice is designed to teach programming concepts to non techies and was developed by Dr. Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon. See www.alice.org