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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
Source: Gara LaMarche
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Resource type: News
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Durban academic at forefront of fight against HIV
Source: The Mercury (South Africa)
PASSION, empathy and extensive research have put a Durban academic at the forefront of the fight against the HIV/Aids infection among young children in South Africa. Prof Anna Coutsoudis, a leading expert in mother-to-child transmission of the HI virus, has proved together with her colleagues…
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Countries Make Push To Increase Eye Donors
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By BINA VENKATARAMAN Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the thousands of people waiting for transplants there. In…
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Charter Schools' Big Experiment
Source: The Washington Post
New Orleans's Post-Katrina Test May Offer Lessons for Ailing Systems Original Source By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects…
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