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Corporation for National and Community Service Awards Major Learn and Serve America Grant to ECS' National Center for Learning Citizenship (Popularity:  )
http://www.ecs.org
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) and the National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) are pleased to announce the receipt of a grant for $926,640 from the Corporation for National and Community Service for grades 6-9 in the K-12 school-based program.Service-learning is an approach to education that links community service to academic achievement while also teaching students about America's civic institutions and traditions."We're pleased to partner with NCLC ...
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MINI USA and RIDEMAKERZ Team Up To Debut Smallest MINI Ever (Popularity: )
http://www.miniusa.com
MINI USA and RIDEMAKERZ have teamed up to create the smallest MINI ever -- the RIDEMAKERZ MINI -- a 12- inch, completely customizable toy replica of the iconic MINI Cooper S -- and have guaranteed a holiday donation of 2,000 of the new toy MINIs to Toys for Tots -- the companies jointly announced today at an event celebrating the launch of the new MINI RIDE. Joined by "tween" sensation ...
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Photo: Moms Invent Social Network for Tweens (Popularity: )
http://www.fashionfantasygame.com
Social networks are big business but are shy on value to Moms who care about the safety and productive engagement of their tweens. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/fashionfantasygame/33084/ That's not the case at http://www.fashionfantasygame.com, a social network and virtual world created by R. Lilly Tuckerwear, Inc., where members run their own virtual businesses. These tweens chat about their designs and stores and are seriously focused on ...
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New Report on Drug-Free Zone Inequities Provides Opportunity for 'Smart On Crime' Sentencing Reforms in Massachusetts (Popularity: )
http://www.famm.org
A new report shows that Massachusetts' drug-free zone laws fail to improve children's safety and are a driving force behind the increased incarceration of minorities and the poor. Authored by the Prison Policy Initiative, a Northampton-based nonpartisan think tank, "The Geography of Punishment" analyzed the impact of drug-free zone laws on urban and rural communities, using data from Hampden County. It found that drug-free zone laws do not accomplish their ...
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Parental cigarette use is ’double whammy’ for children (Popularity: )
http://www.washington.edu
A new study exploring smoking, heavy drinking and marijuana use across three generations indicates that the children of a parent who uses any of these substances are more likely to smoke, binge drink or use marijuana in adolescence and adulthood. Drug transmission across generations, the study found, was for a general tendency to use these substances rather than to use any one specifically, with the exception of tobacco. The children ...
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Vaccines are Likely to Cause Insulin Dependent Diabetes in Over 2% of Children With a Strong Family History of Insulin Dependent Diabetes, New Data Indicates (Popularity: )
http://www.vaccines.net
Newly published data by Dr. J. Barthelow Classen shows that vaccines are particularly likely to cause diabetes in children with a strong family history of insulin dependent diabetes. Previous papers provided proof that vaccines cause diabetes in vaccine recipients at a rate which exceeds their benefit in the general population. New data indicates vaccines are particularly toxic to those with a strong family history of diabetes. For example, the hemophilus ...
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State of Childhood Asthma, United States: 1980-2005 (Popularity: )
http://www.cdc.gov
A new report on childhood asthma released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that death rates for asthma among children under age 18 have declined since 1999, while doctor visits for the condition have more than doubled over the past decade. In 2005, nearly 9 percent of children - 6.5 million children under age 18 - were reported to currently have asthma. The percentage of ...
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How Can We Improve Our Elementary School System? - Unique Market Research Analysis of the Subconscious of Parents (Popularity: )
http://www.cbcd.net
Computer Intuition is a psycholinguistic-based computer program that analyzes the person's written or spoken language and retrieves information from the subconscious. In the last 15 years, Computer Intuition was used to analyze focus groups, interviews, and open-ended questions in numerous market research studies.A while ago, a children's museum became interested in increasing its membership. To better understand its current and potential members, the museum conducted an online survey. The survey ...
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House From 'A Christmas Story' Celebrates Its Grand Opening In Cleveland (Popularity: )
http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Cleveland as fans from across the country today celebrated the grand opening of A Christmas Story House. The home used in the 1983 film "A Christmas Story" has been renovated to its original movie appearance and was unveiled by its owner, Brian Jones, along with several actors from the film, including Ian Petrella (Randy), Scott Schwartz (Flick), Tedde Moore (Miss Shields), ...
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Government Commissioned Report On Abuse Linked To Witchcraft Published Today (Popularity: )
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research
Children and Families Minister Beverley Hughes today announced that action has been stepped up to tackle child abuse linked to ‘possession’ and ‘witchcraft’. A comprehensive cross-agency strategy has already been put in place to speed-up the identification of cases by local agencies and deal with the perpetrators, as well as to help prevent cases happening in the first place. Prevention depends on Local Authorities having strong links with new communities. ...
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