Word: schoolchildren
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...literally blowing their minds," she says. "We're starting to live in a drug culture, where instead of having fulfilled and interesting lives, people seek oblivion from the stresses of life through a chemical route." Despite her unhappiness with the government's actions, she finds the response from schoolchildren and young offenders, to whom she has taken her antidrug message, "hugely exhilarating. A 'Just Say No' approach would never work. But they are surprisingly receptive to hard facts." The daughter of an electrician and a chorus dancer, Greenfield enrolled at Oxford to study philosophy and psychology after graduating from school...
...Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco - ruling last week that schoolchildren should not recite the pledge because the phrase under God violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment - certainly chose a ridiculously inappropriate moment to mess with it. The decision - at a time when America's post-9/11 flags are still truculently out and its nerves frayed by a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't war against terrorists and by a doubtful economy - seemed stupid: fetishistic about the First Amendment and almost wanton in its cluelessness about the American mood...
...into Thailand. As Bangkok and Rangoon traded accusations, soldiers traded mortar fire. Villagers were evacuated as stray rounds rained down on Thai soil. No civilians were harmed?until last week. Farther south in Ratchaburi province, three gunmen in military fatigues fired automatic weapons at a pickup truck full of schoolchildren. Three students were killed and 12 wounded. "It was like something out of the West Bank," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a defense analyst at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University...
...equating Israel’s brave defenders with the followers of Hitler—was shockingly offensive, yet it sparked relatively little controversy in the international press. Perhaps, though, this shouldn’t be surprising: Arafat has, after all, historically nurtured an entire generation of Palestinian schoolchildren to hate the people he labels “Judeo-Nazis...
Ciannavei created a calendar with four or five historical facts about Walpole for each day of the year and donated some of the calendars to local schoolchildren...