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...good indication of what makes the group distinctive. But the Harvard College Gumboots Dance Troupe is about more than performance alone. From South Africa, Gumboots is a tradition said to have originated with gold miners during the Apartheid. The dance acted as a means of expression among workers suppressed and forced to endure brutal conditions. Some were not allowed to move, kept away from their families, and shackled to their work. Rubber boots—“gumboots”—formed part of their uniform. Decades distant, and half a world away, Harvard?...
...shifts health-care reform into high gear - and a spate of studies slams the Magic City as the poster child for exorbitant medical costs. This week the Milliman Medical Cost Index listed the 2008 average private-provider costs for a Miami family of four - $20,282 - as the highest among the 14 major U.S. cities it studied, adding that more than 40% of that amount came out of Miamians' own pockets. That echoes recent analyses by Medicare, Dartmouth College and Families USA, a consumer group that estimates that over a million Floridians spend more than a quarter of their household...
...school district to conduct the investigation, pointed to the difficulty Dunaire, like all schools, faces in monitoring bullying. "There is name-calling, there is teasing, but I will tell you that it is almost always done outside the presence of adults," Moore said. "There is a code of silence among the students...
...schools define, prevent and respond to it. The federal anti-bullying bill introduced in the House of Representatives on May 5 would require schools receiving funding from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to implement comprehensive anti-bullying policies that define categories targeted by bullies - among them race, religion and sexual orientation. Another provision would require states to report bullying and harassment data to the Federal Government. Although current laws provide federal support to promote school safety, they do not focus on issues of bullying or harassment...
...Suicide as a result of bullying or any other cause is rare among children under the age of 14. Recent statistics from the CDC cited one suicide for every 100,000 kids, which is down slightly from six years ago. But an estimated 160,000 students stay home from school every day because of bullying incidents, according to Dr. Allan Beane, a former teacher and bullying expert who authored The Bully-Free Classroom. "These kids get angry and frustrated, and it creates this sort of toxic shame within them," he says. "They also have gotten to the point where they...