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...practical, and because of that I am optimistic about their chances of promoting fundamental change. They aren't ready to march in the streets, but they are equally unwilling to be told what they can or can't read and discuss online. They simply want to be free to live their own lives...
...Singapore, the city-state where I was born and a place that never ceases to fascinate me. But the pact's appeal is now far more widespread and takes in not just the countries you might expect - China, Russia - but plenty you might not. Perhaps even the country you live...
Such a convergence of education and opportunity is already happening in Independence, where the Gilliams live. As part of an innovative program in low-income neighborhoods, the city school district began hosting weekly dinners for students and their families, paid for with federal funds from the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Families get a free hot meal and a cooking demonstration that shows them how to prepare similarly well-balanced entrées at home. "Part of that initiative is to get children to sit down and eat with their parents, and part of it is to teach families what...
...canine, which had arrived by chartered jet from Switzerland just hours before, hesitated. She licked the air and waved her muzzle back and forth. Something about the smell wasn't right. "Our dogs go through at least two years of training, but they only know how to find live people because we can't use corpses in training," explains Linda Hornisbesger, a vet and head of a canine search team for Swiss Rescue, which arrived in Padang on Oct. 2 with 115 people, 18 dogs and an ample supply of kibble and Scooby snacks. "So when the dogs...
...increasing Polanski's penalty. He told the Associated Press on Sept. 30 that he did so because he thought the HBO film would air only in France and not in the U.S. "It was a dumb thing to do," Wells told the AP. "I'm going to have to live with it." (The State Bar can choose to punish a lawyer found in violation of ex parte rules...