Children
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Style
How Can I Stop Children From Bringing Toy Guns to the Playground?
A reader is frustrated by her children’s gravitation toward the toy guns a family brings to play with.
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Food
F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Shot to Protect Infants
The News A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of a monoclonal antibody shot aimed at preventing a…
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World
Man Stabs Several People, Including Children, in France, Authorities Say
The motive in the attack, in the southeastern city of Annecy, was not immediately clear.
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World
Citing Doubt, Officials Free Woman Convicted in 4 Children’s Deaths in 2003
An Australian jury found that Kathleen Folbigg had smothered her children. But scientists now say that they probably died from…
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World
New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read
Half of children in grades three to eight fail reading tests. The city’s schools chancellor, who has faulted the current…
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World
Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights seeks to portray war crimes accusations as false.
An official charged by the International Criminal Court sought to portray her work as a humanitarian project.
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News
A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. So I Watched It.
This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old…
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News
The Dangerous Race to Put More Children to Work
In February, the Department of Labor announced that it had discovered 102 teenagers working in hazardous conditions for a company…
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News
My State’s Anti-Drag Campaign Is Beyond Ludicrous
NASHVILLE — Soon after we moved to Nashville in 1987, I started hearing stories about a brilliant Belle Meade man…
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World
Desperate for Babies, China Races to Undo an Era of Birth Limits. Is It Too Late?
A number of new incentives encouraging people to have children highlight the challenges China faces in trying to boost its…