US students lack hunger - official
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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The US Food and Drug Administration doesn't have enough staff to protect Americans from tainted food imports, lawmakers and congressional investigators said.
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The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need
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Educators and health officials have stepped up their fight against obesity in US schools by trying to replace greasy fast food with healthy meals, and are seeing small but encouraging results.
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The schools, created in the 1960s, have been marked by low test scores, poor attendance and inadequate facilities.
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About 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students will not be qualified to receive Pell Grant scholarships under new calculation formula.
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Lack of a big majority may mean the US will be involved longer to support a 'weak' government.
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The US says North Korea has failed to provide all the information about its nuclear programme as agreed.
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The US military is denying a report that Saddam Hussein has begun a jailhouse hunger strike, and says the ousted Iraqi leader had eaten on Sunday.
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The US military has admitted that some jailed aides of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are refusing meals, but denied that Saddam himself is on a hunger strike.
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They are not getting enough exercise or fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, study indicates. By Emily Fredrix / Associated Press.
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Undergraduates in England spend less time studying than their European counterparts, a report suggests.
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The education secretary says stats show No Child Left Behind is working.
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Meat and milk products of offspring  from the 600 cloned animals in the United States most likely  have not entered the nation's food supply, an official with the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday, as the  agency downplayed the long-term impact of cloning.
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At least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation's primary scholarship for those of low income.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - In a back-to-school message, President Bush says that while many public schools aren't making the grade, he should get high marks from voters for the No Child Left Behind Act.   "We are leaving behind the broken system that shuffled children from grade to grade, even when they were not learning the basics," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address...
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The number of hungry people in the world has hardly budged in the eight years since nations pledged to cut the number in half by 2015, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.