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The Dangerous Race to Put More Children to Work
In February, the Department of Labor announced that it had discovered 102 teenagers working in hazardous conditions for a company…
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My State’s Anti-Drag Campaign Is Beyond Ludicrous
NASHVILLE — Soon after we moved to Nashville in 1987, I started hearing stories about a brilliant Belle Meade man…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…