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The maturation of children.

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Potomac Confidential

Published December 5, 2008, 1:29 am, Washington Post

Metro columnist Marc Fisher looks at the District's decision to open bars till 5 a.m. during Inauguration Week, the sad state of car sales in the area and the federal government's green light for extending Metro to Dulles.

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'The Black Balloon' gets family right

Published December 5, 2008, 12:07 am, Calendarlive.com

Eschewing feel-good bromides in favor of messy authenticity, "The Black Balloon" is a tough-minded coming-of-age drama. At the center of the Australian independent film is 15-year-old Thomas, who as the son of a career army man is adjusting to yet another new school.

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New study on relationship to media violence, adolescent behavior

Published December 4, 2008, 1:31 pm, Observer

Aggressive behaviors among adolescents have always been a major issue in our current society and many varieties of studies are completed yearly to understand the reasons behind aggressive and violent behavior among adolescents.

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Namibia: Is This National Reconciliation?

Published December 4, 2008, 2:49 am, AllAfrica.com

I draw inspiration from a black consciousness leader, W. E. B Du Bois, who lived his life and tirelessly fought for the right of people with the chocolate skin to ensure that they come at par with their oppressors of all times.

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Arbor on Main: Young people learning life skills

Published December 4, 2008, 12:14 am, The Ukiah Daily Journal

Entering adulthood and becoming financially independent can be particularly challenging. Most schools don't teach youth how to pay their bills, write a resume or stay physically healthy.

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Brains of low-income children function differently from brains of high-income kids

Published December 3, 2008, 8:38 pm, News-Medical-Net

University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown for the first time that the brains of low-income children function differently from the brains of high-income kids.

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The growing need for town planning courses to teach terror attack managment

Published December 3, 2008, 4:10 pm, Guardian Unlimited

Academics call for more courses to teach town planners how to prevent and mitigate terrorist attacks. Louise Tickle reports

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Walden University Announces Major Teacher Education Initiative at Clinton Global Initiative Meeting

Published December 3, 2008, 8:01 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Walden University, a leading online university and member of the Laureate International Universities network, announced it will provide 100 full scholarships to highly deserving teachers to help them earn their master's degree in education.

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EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids

Published December 3, 2008, 6:12 am, EurekAlert!

( University of California - Berkeley ) Prefrontal cortex activity in children from low socioeconomic levels is lower than in similar children from well-off families. The brain differences, documented through EEGs, are dramatic: the prefrontal cortexes of poor kids 9 and 10 years of age react to novel stimuli in the same way as the brain of a stroke victim. The researchers from UC Berkeley and ...

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Legal briefs of the week

Published December 3, 2008, 6:11 am, Long Island Business News

Beyond reasonable doubt Hofstra Law School has launched the Center for Applied Legal Reasoning, a forum for studying theories of legal reasoning, researching issues related to the solving of legal problems, decision making in practice and the development of teachers to train law students for the practice of law. The center is being led by Professor Stefan [...]

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  • SRCD - Welcome: he Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) was established in 1933 by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science. The history of the Society's origin and evolution parallels that of the academic specialty of child development. [more]

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