Children
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World
Desperate for Babies, China Races to Undo an Era of Birth Limits. Is It Too Late?
A number of new incentives encouraging people to have children highlight the challenges China faces in trying to boost its declining birthrate.
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Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language
New editions of the best-selling author’s children’s classics, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” have been altered to eliminate words deemed inappropriate. A backlash ensued.
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Business
Food Safety Company Employed More Than 100 Children, Labor Officials Say
Packers Sanitation Services Inc. paid a $1.5 million penalty this week for employing children as young as 13 in dangerous jobs at meat-processing plants.
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Margaret Heagarty, Champion for Children’s Health in Harlem, Dies at 88
The first white woman to head the pediatrics unit at Harlem Hospital, she was challenged by the epidemics of crack cocaine and H.I.V.
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Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know How to Fix It
A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future of the United States is this: Two-thirds of fourth ...
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World
Can China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden.
Wealthy countries have been trying to boost their birthrates for decades. The results have been pretty similar.
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From a baby born in the rubble to a trapped teenager, many earthquake victims are children.
A baby born under the rubble and rescued, alive, hours later. Two little girls lying flat in the wreckage of a collapsed building. A boy dangling from a roof, reciting the Muslim prayer of death. A teenage boy recording himself under the ruins of his ...
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Here’s how to help victims of the earthquake.
The rescue and recovery efforts in Syria and Turkey are underway after the most powerful earthquake to strike the region in almost a century killed at least 3,800 people, left thousands more injured and flattened thousands of buildings and homes. The ...
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World
Lloyd Morrisett, a Founder of ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 93
His observations about his 3-year-old daughter’s viewing habits led him to join Joan Ganz Cooney in creating a program that revolutionized children’s television.
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Hundreds of Children Seeking Asylum in U.K. Are Missing
The unaccompanied minors are mostly Albanian teenagers who had been living in hotels. Rights advocates and some lawmakers believe that they have been abducted by criminal gangs.