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5 female ski jumpers want to be added to lawsuit

Five female ski jumpers from Canada want to be added to a lawsuit that contends their sport should be part of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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Snow Survival

Snow Survival is an event where we (local reserve soldiers) make "snow igloos" and sleep inside them. Event is open for foreign University students, if they wish to have one more cold experience from Finland, before returning to home.

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Community members allege child abuse covered up among ultra-Orthodox in Safed

...""Everything blew up after seven children left heder [religious elementary school]," said one community member. "At first we didn't understand why, and then it turned out that they had been sexually abused.

Turkish scientists identify chemical leading to schizophrenia

..."Turkish scientists have discovered in animal testing that a compound named agmatine released by the brain in excessive amount leads to schizophrenia, a psychological disorder seen in one out of every 100 people with no known cure. "...

Voting Himself Rich: CDC Vaccine Adviser Made $29 Million Or More After Using Role to Create Market

This is appalling we have been discussing a related matter here:Doctor who sparked autism-vaccine scare may have lied

Teacher Who Let Autistic Student Be Voted Out Of Class Appeals

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A Port St. Lucie school teacher who was suspended without pay after she allowed her kindergarten students to vote on whether a 5-year-old autistic child could remain in class is expected to appeal her suspension Monday.

Memoir: Working In Special Ed.

This started out as a comment in response to the two excellent companion pieces about a teenager with aspergers here and here.

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DVD teaches autistic kids what a smile means

It wasn't until Jude met Jenny that the 3-year-old autistic boy understood what happy people look like. Jenny, a green trolley car with a human face, had a furrowed brow when her wheel buckled and she got stuck on a track. But after being rescued by friends, she smiled broadly — and that's when something clicked for little Jude Baines.

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Fermilab Director: Unexplained Noise may show that the Universe is a Hologram

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation.

Report: Kids are restrained, secluded

Schoolchildren across the U.S. have been injured or killed when they were restrained or secluded, a disability rights group says. A House committee announced a hearing on the issue.

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