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Benzan emphasized education as a part of his platform, saying that math skills for young children and college readiness for minority youth are among his top priorities...
...While we are in a bad economy, the state does have resources,” he said. “Cambridge has great resources and yet we’re failing our children...
Edward D. Grom ’12 is also skeptical about the power of the magnet. “So if I bring a magnet along in my pocket, I can steal from children, and their moms will just chuckle and say, ‘Oh, you meant well’?” he said. “Let’s be real, people...
Modern day Pharaohs like hunger, poverty, and disease continue to enslave much of the world’s population. Eighteen thousand children die every day from hunger according to the U.N. food agency. Almost half of the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. UNICEF reports that one in every two children lives in poverty, and one out of every seven has no access to healthcare. Malaria is a curable and preventable disease that continues to kill a child in Africa every 30 seconds...
...according to a recent report from the United Nations, despite the goal of halving tuberculosis cases and deaths by 2015. Contamination and polluted water kill more people than all forms of violence combined, and one million people still die each year from malaria, the majority of them children and pregnant women in Africa. Their suffering remains invisible to us an ocean away. Concentrated in the world’s poorest villages and away from the eyes of the developed world, they die silent deaths...