At least 90 people, including many children, have been killed in Syria’s restive Homs province, opposition activists say, calling it a “massacre”.
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VIDEO: Syria child massacre confirmed
Syrian opposition organizations on Saturday accused government forces of carrying out a massacre in a village near Homs, leaving some 100 people dead, many of them children.
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Syrian Activists Claim Death Toll in Village Soars
Syrian opposition activists are begging for international help in stopping the government's sustained slaughter after regime forces devastated a town Friday, killing 88 people — mostly children, an opposition group said.
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Syrian opposition: Scores slaughtered
At least 88 people, including many children, are killed in a town in Syria’s restive province of Homs, opposition activists say, calling it a “massacre”.
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‘Dozens die’ in Syria town attack
Three children — all apparently 3 years old or younger — were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.
PHILADELPHIA – When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda , he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts. Read full article > >
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Romney visits inner-city charter school in Philadelphia in outreach to black voters
New York police have a man in custody who implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, which helped trigger a national focus on missing children.
As families prepare for air travel this coming Memorial Day weekend, United Airlines won't be offering early boarding to families in coach with small children.
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Airline ends coach preboarding for kids
Nine children are “protected” after a global police investigation uncovers a paedophile ring using social networking sites to post images of sexual abuse.
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Social network child abuse halted
A top children’s author is calling for young children to be given automatic library membership to tackle the can read won’t read culture.
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End ‘can read won’t read culture’
A growing number of states are passing laws that allow taxpayer-supported scholarship funds, but they have been twisted to benefit private schools at the expense of the neediest children.
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Scholarship Funds, Meant for Needy, Benefit Private Schools
In drought-racked Niger, the difficult search for water frequently falls to children as young as 10, and they often arrive late to school, or not at all.
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Zinder Journal: Niger Children Miss School to Search for Water
The 389-cubic-inch overhead-cam V-8 holds a sweet spot in many aging hearts, but their grandchildren are more likely to lust after a 1-terabyte hard drive streaming video to a high-resolution screen. Read full article > >
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Has the passion gone out of America’s fabled love affair with the automobile?
Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time in front of televisions, computers and smartphones, according to a psychologist.
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Warning over child ‘screen time’
“ Fifty Shades of Grey ,” the erotic novel by E L James, features cliche characters, highly implausible plot turns and dialogue that alternately induces cringes and giggles. ( Sample line : “ ‘Look at me,’ he breathes, and I stare into his smoldering gaze . . . cold, hard and sexy as hell, seven shades of sin in one enticing look.”) But many of my friends — and, judging by the bestseller lists, millions of women across the country — can’t put the book down. Even I will admit to ignoring my children to read what’s being called “mommy porn,” which details the titillating adventures of the young, innocent Anastasia Steele, who is initiated into the world of kinky pleasures by one Christian Grey, a sexy older billionaire who woos her into a dominant-submissive relationship. Read full article > >
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‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is seen as improving women’s sexual health and wellness
Romney visits inner-city charter school in Philadelphia in outreach to black voters
Thursday, May 24th, 2012Zinder Journal: Niger Children Miss School to Search for Water
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012Has the passion gone out of America’s fabled love affair with the automobile?
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is seen as improving women’s sexual health and wellness
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