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...watched a disaster unfold on the evening news. As aid workers threw loaves of bread on the ground and people scrambled after them, I asked my wife, "Why can't they hand the bread to those people? They've lost everything. Why should they lose their self-respect too?" It was as if someone hit me over the head with a cricket bat. I got out a piece of paper and wrote down what I would need after a natural disaster: shelter, warmth, comfort, dignity. (See video of Shelter Boxes being delivered and used in Haiti...
While much has been written about Yale’s “Sex Week” and the polls conducted by the Yale Daily News, we were wondering if you’d heard about this, the invasion of the Yale Pundits, a humor society, into an official campus debate entitled “Resolved: Reject Hookup Culture.” Apparently, about 30 minutes into the debate, a bunch of horny Pundits and make-out partners got noticeably physical...
...Australia, Melville's case has been widely covered in all major news outlets since 2008. But while the nation may have been made aware of the horrific neglect that Melville suffered, a largely unpublicized audit claims that her death was only part of a much greater problem. According to a 2007 report leaked to the Australian on Feb. 6 and written by psychologist Howard Bath, then the director of a nonprofit organization that specializes in support for child, youth and family services, the Northern Territory child-protection system is near collapse. Today, just over two years after Australia apologized...
...children, who are still over-represented in the child-protection system. Indigenous children are nine times as likely to be cared for by people outside their immediate family than non-indigenous kids, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Kate Valentine, the AIHW spokeswoman, told ABC News that the reasons behind this are complex. "They involve factors such as the intergenerational effects of previous separations and poorer socioeconomic status." (See pictures of Tiwi Islanders, who live off northern Australia...
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