Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. A beautifully written documentary of human adversity in Southern Italy that deserves a place next to Oscar Lewis' The Children of Sanchez...
...Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for your security, but what you can do for your country's sanity." The former is no longer even theoretically attainable-and that ought to be a liberating realization. The latter, God help us, may yet be salvaged, and our children's unguaranteeable future humanized...
...block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them. Most Anguillians were just waking up. Not a shot was fired in anger...
...parochial-school system has had to raise its tuition rates to the limit of parental tolerance, and even beyond. They are caught in a viciously accelerating cycle: as public-school taxes and parochial-school tuition go up, many parents decide that they cannot afford both. They simply transfer their children to the public school, increasing the tax burden as well as the cost per pupil for those remaining in the parochial schools. In addition, some parents switch to public schools because they are not happy with the uneven quality of parochial education...
When the chemicals were injected into male rats, their offspring showed a high rate of embryonic death, said Dr Samuel S. Epstein, research associate in Pathology and Chief of the Laboratories of Environmental Pathology and Carcinogenesis at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation...