Texas Children Home After African Odyssey
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Seven Texas children were recovering on  Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian shack when  their adoptive mother abandoned them, child welfare authorities  said on Tuesday.
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Families with autistic children are finding that techniques that have proved successful in the class can be tried at home.
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As parents come to terms with the tsunami calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival.
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Atlantis' seven astronauts reunited with their families in Texas on Saturday, a day after the space shuttle capped a two-week mission with a perfect landing in the Mohave Desert. Sunita "Suni" Williams was especially happy to return to Earth after spending more than six months at the international space station.
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Separated from the international space station Saturday, their heat shielding inspected one last time for damage and all their goals accomplished, the astronauts of the space shuttle Discovery were ready to come home.
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Just a few hours after youngsters at a children's home in western Kenya finished the soccer game, their fellow players turned on them.
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By Melissa McEver, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas  Jun. 23--LAGUNA ATASCOSA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -- The waters of the Bahia Grande are flowing freely once again.
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Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa, seven children from Texas begged small change to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger's care to a concrete-block orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.
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During every school vacation, the Sikhethimpilo Centre in remote southwestern Zimbabwe gathers dozens of children for week-long camps to help them deal with the trauma of losing their parents to HIV/AIDS.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - Dr. Raad Sameer's three children were very excited -- Monday was to be their first day of school in America. A month after landing in the U.S. heartland, the Iraqi refugees were ready to pursue their dream.
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On Sunday they will go home, carrying memories of their experience here; however, not all those memories will be good.
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By Angie Herrington, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 21--Chattanoogan June Scobee Rodgers says she can relate to how the  families of the six astronauts on the Atlantis space shuttle must have felt  this morning before the spacecraft's expected return.
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By Rebecca Holm, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb.
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The families of two London girls suspected of drug smuggling in west Africa thought they were on a school trip.
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HOUSTON Aug. 19, 2004  Seven Texas children found abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage have leveled new accusations against the adoptive mother who left them there, claiming that she struck them with switches and a cane and had repeatedly threatened to ...
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While parents worry about picking up the pieces from the hurricane that killed 22 people in Florida, the children whose lives were upturned by Charley are dealing with another problem &#151; boredom.
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Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.