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Princeton University has unveiled an ambitious plan to bolster its support for graduate students with young children??and the initiatives provide greater assistance than what is found at Harvard...
...though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child soldier who spoke openly about his experiences at the United Nations First International Children??s Parliament, doesn’t focus on the messy political situation that has led several African nations, including his native Sierra Leone, into intractable civil wars. Rather, his memoir is about understanding the dehumanizing process that leads armies of children to mutual slaughter—a goal...
...have from HIV-negative women, we hope such supplements will be made available to all women,” said the study’s lead author, Wafaie W. Fawzi, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the United Nations Children??s Fund (UNICEF), more than 20 million children are born each year with low birth weight, and 96 percent of the afflicted infants are born in developing nations. UNICEF and other international health organizations already distribute certain nutrients to pregnant women in developing nations, and the researchers propose...
We’ve gone from shielding children??s eyes from the awfulness of Jerry Springer during its prime in the late 1990s to a campaign against violent video games to the famed censorship crusade of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell in the aftermath of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “incident” three years ago to decrying “Heroes,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break...
...always had violence on TV in different forms, from the sci-fi variety represented in “The X-Files” to the crime in hits like “NYPD Blue.” Crudeness, too, has always sold—“Married With Children?? had far more so-called ills than anything we see today...