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Despite the windy weather, city councillors Jonathan Myers and Francis H. Duehay '55 and many schoolchildren were on hand to play against the grandmasters. In addition to local television reporters present, about 300 spectators gathered to watch the matches...
...Costa Rica's spectacular Monteverde Reserve. Their campaign gave birth to Barnens Regnskog, or the Children's Rain Forest, a nonprofit organization whose young supporters in several thousand Swedish schools have bought 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of jungle with the $1.5 million they have raised so far. Schoolchildren in Germany, Japan and the U.S. have followed suit. In appreciation, the Monteverde Conservation League, which maintains the reserve, has named part of the rain forest the Bosque Eterno de los Ninos, or Children's Eternal Forest...
...effects of low-level lead poisoning in children are not immediately obvious, but they can have a devastating, permanent impact. Exhaustive tests conducted by Dr. Needleman on 2,300 suburban Boston schoolchildren confirmed that even modest lead exposure lowers IQs, impairs memory and reaction time and affects the ability to concentrate. "This is an information society," says Karen Florini, a Washington attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund. "When your educational and social skills are hurt early on, you aren't likely to become a productive member of society." John Rosen, a professor of pediatrics at the Montefiore Medical Center...
...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...
Doubts about weak, so-called nonionizing radiation began to grow in 1979, when a study of cancer rates among Colorado schoolchildren found that those who lived near power lines had two to three times as great a chance of developing cancer. The link seemed so unlikely that when power companies paid to have the original study replicated, most scientists expected the results to be negative. In fact, the subsequent study supported the original findings, which have since been buttressed by reports showing increased cancer rates among electrical workers...