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Rosie Pope helps navigate exotic baby gear
Amid the purveyors of belly casts and placenta pills, sonogram art and cord banks at a recent baby gear extravaganza stood a smiling Rosie Pope, pregnancy advice guru, mommy concierge to the rich and, with any luck, the Martha Stewart of maternity. "There's Rachael Ray for cooking and Rachel Zoe ...
Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans. The addition of Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia brings to 37 the ...
Audit: DOE skipped steps in monitoring charters
The state Department of Education had gaps in its monitoring of the academic and contractual performance of Louisiana charter schools last year, according to a legislative audit released Monday. The review by Louisiana Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera's Office says the department didn't verify that school-reported data used to grade performance ...
Annotated 'Harry Potter' 1st edition on auction
A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction. The personal annotations from the best-selling author included comments on the process of writing and a section from an early draft of ...
More Mount Vernon students try walking to school
More students at Centennial and Little Mountain elementary schools will be walking or biking to school starting Monday as part of a pilot project to test several safe walking zones around the schools. The project will eliminate five bus stops in a designated one-mile zone around Centennial and five near ...
Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead
Suspected foreign fighters backing a rebel movement now in control of Central African Republic's government invaded a remote north-central village and killed six people, residents said. The assault on the town of Bouca on Friday came just days after other armed fighters took a dozen civilians hostage in another village ...
Measles surges in UK years after flawed research
More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. This year, the U.K. ...
Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation
While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply. Supporters and opponents of public fluoridation have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of ...
Ga. students' weather balloon travels 100 miles
Elementary school students in Athens launched a weather balloon that reached an altitude of nearly 97,000 feet and traveled nearly 100 miles to Sparta. The Engineering Club at Chase Elementary School released the 7-foot helium-filled balloon Tuesday. They tracked it to a dense swamp in a heavily wooded area in ...
Ala. video highlights dropout prevention efforts
At the end of a movie, it's rare to see an entire audience sticking around in the darkened theater to watch the credits. Stranger still — hearing the crowd cheer and applaud as the names of the cast and crew appear on the screen. But it happened at the premiere ...
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