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...Amreeka, is painfully unprepared for the world outside the West Bank. When the customs agent at Chicago airport immigration asks for her occupation, she answers "Yes" with great enthusiasm, referring to the political state she's lived in. She's the sort of person who, if confronted with the anti-immigrant sentiment "Why don't you just go home?" would naively attempt to give an earnest answer, explaining about the limited educational opportunities for her smart teenage boy Fadi (Melkar Muallem) in West Bank, or how long her commute to and from Bethlehem became after Israel stepped up construction...
...detailed information would then be taught to kids ages 9 to 12. For kids ages 12 to 15, UNESCO recommends that students be instructed about contraception and the differences between "safe abortion and post-abortion care" and the potentially life-threatening forms of improvised pregnancy termination. (Read "Was an Anti-Abortion Bishop Too Outspoken...
...reduction in group member-involved homicides in the first six months of 2009. Project director S. Gregory Baker says Cincinnati's approach is one in which known violent felons, including those in gangs or under court supervision, are actively counseled by law enforcement representatives with strong anti-violence messages and encouraged to spread the word among their peers in the streets. Afterward, they are put in contact with "street advocates" who counsel them on turning a new leaf. They are also exposed and made to socialize with people who have been victims of violence. (See "Combating Crime...
...Even worse, some of the gang continues to fan the flames of anti-government protests between the coasts. In a Washington Post interview, Senator Grassley said he would govern “upon the views of whichever group among his constituents yells the loudest” and engenders fear that reform will “pull the plug on grandma.” Senator Enzi has told roaring Wyoming town halls he has no plans to compromise...
...independence from the colonial British, Kokang territory was under the control of Burmese communists, who for decades waged an insurgency against the central government and were among the military regime's most persistent foes. "The [Burmese army] hates many ethnic minorities very much," says Aung Kyaw Zaw, a former anti-junta rebel who now lives in exile in Yunnan province. "But they especially hate the Kokang because they are ethnically Chinese and they used to be communist...