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...while Nebraska can easily narrow its statute, dealing with the underlying causes of abandonment is much harder, child-welfare experts say. "These parents had to be totally overwhelmed to do something like this," says the Rev. Steven Boes, president of Boys Town - the original safe haven of Father Flanagan fame, which happens to be headquartered in Omaha. Once upon a time, Depression-battered parents would buy bus fare for their children and hand them a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town." Their counterparts today "are parents who have tried to navigate the system for years, and this...
...Twice weekly Spanish lessons prepared him for a new language but not a new culture. "After living in New York, Paris and London, Madrid is a complete change," he says. "It's about half the size, so at times you feel a bit more like you're in a town." That, combined with the city's lively atmosphere, has made picking up on the local hot spots a breeze. Chueca and Malasaña, neighborhoods that Vevers frequents and equates with a cross between New York City's SoHo and East Village, are brimming with restaurants, galleries and nightclubs. El Rastro...
Spain's most wanted terrorist was arrested early Monday morning in southern France. French police raided an apartment in the Pyrenees town of Cauterets and captured Garikoitz Aspiazu, the military leader of the Basque separatist terror group ETA, who goes by the nom-de-guerre 'Txeroki.' The arrest comes, evocatively, at a time when rumors are running high of a breach between hardliners and moderates within ETA's political sphere...
...passions unleashed eventually spilled out of Reims' convention center and into town. Heading back to the city center as speeches wound down Saturday evening, one feisty PS dowager took an entire municipal bus to task. She harangued puzzled passengers about "this Socialist circus where everyone is so busy attacking everyone else that we leave the right in peace," before herself having a go at "the morons who back Royal instead of someone capable of advancing a real leftist program for once!" "I like Royal, and I'm not a moron," resisted a small, snowy-headed man who had also attended...
While the school collapses have been in the news in the last week, the country is still drowning in the aftermath of the storms. Gonaives, the country's third largest town, was the hardest hit and is still buried under 3 million metric tons of mud. Medecins San Frontiers (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) has set up mobile clinics, distributed water and constructed a temporary hospital in Gonaives, since the government hospital was completely destroyed during Hurricane Hannah in late August. In hard-to-reach areas, however, malnutrition is growing and the food supply shrinks. Daily food insecurity affects...