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...working theory, says Dr. Tam, is that the illness is spread by airborne respiratory mucous and saliva droplets. In Hong Kong, where 47 patients were under observation for pneumonia by the end of last week, the Department of Health urged at-risk hospital workers to wear protective gloves, masks and gowns...
Keeping at-risk families together in a supervised setting--and providing an around-the-clock role model for problem parents--is a little-known alternative to traditional foster care. Called shared family care, the program is available in scattered counties in 10 states, including California, Wisconsin and Texas. It helps prevent families from being separated, reunites them after a separation or serves as a way station while parents decide whether they want to relinquish their parental rights. At a time when the failure of the classic child-welfare system is grabbing headlines across the country (a little girl missing...
...Canadians scientists are at-risk of being left behind their colleagues around the world as a result of this decision,” the statement read...
...status quo worry that students who are forced into community colleges for remedial classes will never make it to four-year universities. They point to studies showing that only about a quarter of community-college students transfer to four-year schools within five years. "Some of our most at-risk students will have a longer pipeline to get to the four-year institutions, and, unfortunately, not as many will make it," says Melodye Wiens, a remedial-reading instructor who is president of the National Association for Developmental Education. Others argue that states shouldn't ask students to pay more...
...family, acquaintances, casual acquaintances, really distant family members, people who sat next to him in lecture once—basically anyone who has ever met Harold B. Mackey ’03—were shocked and appalled to find out that he has started spending Wednesday afternoons tutoring at-risk youths at a local junior high school. According to blockmates and police, Mackey’s only previously expressed public-service goal was “throwing a goddamn flaming brick through the window of the Fly?...