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...fact begun with an air-raid alert for the city just after 7, but the B-29 soon passed over, and the all clear was sounded. This was the weather plane that advised the Enola Gay that the target was open. Schoolchildren looked forward to air-raid alerts, which allowed them to stop working. Kawamoto said goodbye to his mother, who told him to take care of himself. He plonked a shovel on his shoulder and strode soldier-like toward the railway station...
...high-profile rape case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal as a punishment. Poison Probe THE PHILIPPINES Authorities launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 27 elementary schoolchildren in the southern island of Bohol who were apparently poisoned by cassava sweets bought from street vendors. Health officials said the inquiry would focus on the possibility that the children were poisoned either by cyanide, which is naturally present in cassava, or pesticides. Presidential Reprieve BOLIVIA Congress rallied behind besieged President...
...meeting took place on the grounds of a school called the Bar Sauri Primary School, where headmistress Anne Marcelline Omolo shepherds hundreds of schoolchildren through primary education and the travails of daily life. Despite disease, orphanhood and hunger, all 33 of last year's eighth-grade class passed the Kenyan national secondary-school exams. On a Sunday last July, we saw why. On their "day off" from school, this year's class of eighth-graders sat at their desks from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. preparing months in advance for this year's national examinations in November. Unfortunately, many...
Junior Maureen McCaffery scored 14 points for the Crimson. Before leaving to sign autographs for local schoolchildren, she wore a smile about as wide as the margin of victory—which, by the way, was the largest in the series’ 57-game history...
...sympathetic to passenger cries for compensation, compassion, consolation – anything. This was not the way I wanted to start off the notoriously short holiday break. And just as I was feeling glummer than glum, Grinch-like, Scrooged even, I opened my New York Times to find that schoolchildren can’t celebrate “Christmas” anymore...