A Calm, but Confusing, First Day of School
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In dozens of schools across the city, New York City's nearly 1.1 million public school students returned for the opening of a new school year.
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Madeline Mann once weighed less than a can of soda as the tiniest surviving newborn known to medicine. Next week, she enters her suburban high school as something even more extraordinary -- an
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Hari Krishna was back in school yesterday, confused as ever in his chemistry class, but grateful for any place to learn at all.
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It didn't seem like tornado weather. The rain was sparse, and there was no thunder. But in the morning, the high  school students in Enterprise, Ala., were herded into the interior hallways to brace for the possibility. Kids joked and chatted.  They had been through this drill before.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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Four months into the school year, some themes are working better than others, but at even the best-run schools, the future remains unclear.
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ATHENS At the end of the first week of the Olympic Games, security officials are generally pleased, even surprised, by the calm so far, though they caution that a safe opening ceremony and first week may encourage a laxness that could yet give terrorists
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Brown University coach Phil Estes was feeling uncomfortable yesterday despite his team's 21-point lead over Harvard in their Ivy League opener.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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Remember that kid back in school who always seemed to have some creative excuse for skipping class? You know -- the doctor&#39;s appointment, two hurricanes, and a tropical storm?
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The first day of class for University of Dallas students in Rome is a goose-bump moment.
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Even the back-to-school season doesn't heat up Hot Topic.
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By Charlie Boss, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 24--Mornings at the school sound of water splashing on soapy hair, onions sizzling on a skillet and computers humming.
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A little homework goes a long way.
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By Valerie Russ, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 27--IT IS EARLY, not quite time for the 9:30 a.m. English-composition class at Community College of Philadelphia to begin.   Arielle Wilson is the first student in her seat. And she's ready to go.
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BALAKOT, Pakistan  - She cannot avoid thinking about what happened the day the earthquake struck, but 13-year-old Saadia has a mental routine for starting each school day.
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There was a moment when Vika Kallagova could have fled the hellish maelstrom of bullets, screams and explosions that School No. 1 had become on the first day of September.