Somini Sengupta and Hwaida Saad, The New York Times Two years old, Yazan al-Najjar is a boy without a country. He is neither a citizen of Syria, where his parents were born, nor of Lebanon, where he was born. He […]
Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times The “sex talk” isn’t easy for parents, but new research shows that adolescents who have talked to their parents about sex are more likely to use condoms and birth control. The finding stems […]
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Lucknow, India — I’m on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student with me on a reporting trip. I’m traipsing through Indian villages with the winner, Austin Meyer of Stanford University, […]
NYTIMES Children who sit too much may face adult-sized health consequences, according to a sobering new study of healthy young girls. The study found that after a single session of prolonged inactivity, the children developed changes in their blood flow […]
Every year, increasing numbers of children eat or inhale the contents of brightly colored packets of laundry detergent that they mistake for candy or teething toys. On Tuesday, the first safety standard for packaging and labeling so-called laundry pods was […]
Many smart students forgo college in the mistaken belief that they cannot afford it. The financial aid system, which is intended to increase opportunities for low-income students, is largely to blame. Students must fight through thickets of paperwork and endure […]
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