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- The Way Mothers Interact With Babies In First Year Predicts Child Behavior To Age 13
  Posted by ivan from Science Daily
  The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother's parenting style and an infant's temperament reliably predict challenging behavior in later childhood, according to Benjamin Lahey and his team from the University of Chicago in the US.
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- Advocacy Project - Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination
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  Wastepickers scour through open trash bins for recyclable paper, metals, glass and plastics, which they then sell. According to Chintan, they account for almost 1 percent of Delhi's population and handle about 20 percent of the city's waste. They earn, on average, one or two dollars a day.
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- Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases
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  The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more reliable. But what if the legal system had it wrong?
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- More Tests Please
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  No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do
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- Child welfare spokesman charged with porn - UPI.com
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  TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A former Florida child welfare agency spokesman facing pornography charges allegedly held drinking parties for boys he photographed naked, it was reported.
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- The Province: Babies being used to smuggle drugs into B.C. prisons, warns guard
  Posted by Jwgardner from Canada
  Children are increasingly being used as tiny drug mules as they accompany parents on jail visits, according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.
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- The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
  Posted by Jeff from Slashdot
  Mastery-oriented children think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. Challenges are energizing rather than intimidating offering opportunities to learn.
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Jeff comments on:
None Dare Call It Child Care

And we have thousands of homeless, mentally ill people (many veterans of the Vietnam war) out on the streets every night. This country lacks a lot of consciousness – yet it is righteous that it is the most ethical, most moral in the world.

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Iraqi infant mortality soars to 150 percent--a damning revelation of US war crimes

The wsws has already changed the preposition.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/iraq-m09.shtml

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8:01 am 6/03/07
Sandyenglish comments on:
Iraqi infant mortality soars to 150 percent--a damning revelation of US war crimes

Thanks. I’ll forward this to the author.

SE

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7:54 am 6/03/07

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