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...Melville, an indigenous child placed in the care of her great-aunt after her birth mother lost custody of her in 2001, was not likely to have been crying out of fear of abandonment, but out of sheer agony. She had a festering bone infection from a three-week-old fracture in her right leg that had already spread to her organs. The following morning, according to reports, Deborah was carried outside by her carers - apparently at her own request - and for eight hours she lay dying in the backyard. An autopsy revealed that one and a half liters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia's Aboriginal Children: A New Inquiry | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...Melville's great-aunt and aunt both lived at the home at the time of Deborah's death. Both women were charged with manslaughter in the case but were eventually acquitted in 2008 on the grounds that they couldn't have known just how sick she was. Not everyone, however, was let off the hook: In an inquiry completed on Jan. 19, the national Department of Families and Child Services, the authority that was supposed to be protecting Deborah, was found largely responsible for her death, having ignored the many red flags raised throughout her six years in foster care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia's Aboriginal Children: A New Inquiry | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

That evening six years ago, Carter’s great-aunt visited her home in Fayetteville...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budding Freshman Author Aims to Inspire | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...Continuing to let the market participants mix agency activity with prop trading is like letting my aunt Agnes play center in Sunday's Super Bowl game," says Elvin Riley, a professor who specialized in securities trading at Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business. "There is no regulation against it, and the ratings might go up, but it is such a bad idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Proprietary Trading Too Wild for Wall Street? | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...have a photographic memory. So were you bothered by differences between real events and places and the way they were portrayed in the film? 
They had an uncanny resemblance. Like my aunt's ranch. They picked a house out in Texas that looks kind of like my aunt's ranch in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temple Grandin on Temple Grandin | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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