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...back to their regular schedule. Lessons start at 9 a.m. and end at around 4 p.m. The school-age kids are learning all the usual subjects - math, science, etc. - with the help of textbooks and other teaching materials, in compliance with state law. The family has also joined a local group that organizes activities and field trips once a week for homeschooled children...
Meanwhile, de la Soudičre is working to build as extensive a network as possible of local NGOs and volunteers. This not only creates a larger army of detectives to find relatives and advocate for children's best interests, but it also helps these aid workers persuade relatives and foster families to take children in, because they know they'll have a big system of support when they...
...helicopters mistook them for insurgents and bombed their convoy. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying, "The repeated killing of civilians by NATO forces is unjustifiable." U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, apologized to Karzai and other Afghans in a video statement that was translated into local languages...
...other two suggested climate initiatives for the city—including setting annual energy efficiency goals and partnering with local businesses to encourage sustainable practices...
Roughly 150 city and state government officials and Harvard graduate students spent their Saturday at the first “Government 2.0” camp to be hosted in Cambridge at Harvard Kennedy School learning to apply current social media tools in local government...