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Report Links Victoria's Secret to Child Labor
CNN/KTLA NewsThe company that owns Victoria's Secret vowed a full investigation Thursday after a report said cotton used in some of its products is grown using child labor. "We are very concerned," parent company Limited Brands said in a statement, noting that the...Tags: Victoria's Secret, Burkina Faso, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Child Labor
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L.A. Zoo's Small Critters
The Los Angeles Zoo is busy with the arrival of four Rock Hyrax and four Antelope Ground Squirrels as well as the birth of a Black Duiker and a Brazilian Agouti. With the addition of the Rock Hyrax, the Los Angeles Zoo is now home to the closest...Tags: Los Angeles, Animals, Children
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221 Missing After Boat Capsizes
Associated PressFREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea and left at least eight dead, police said. Some 39 passengers have been rescued so...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Disasters and Accidents, Africa, Sierra Leone, Freetown (Sierra Leona)
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Police: 8 year old Girl Gang Raped by 4 Boys
Associated PressPHOENIX -- Officers responding to a report of hysterical screams found an 8-year-old girl partially clothed and four boys, barely in their teens, running from an empty shed. The boys, ages 9 to 14, face charges ranging from sexual assault to kidnapping,...Tags: Sex Crimes, Crimes, Lawyers, Juvenile Delinquency, Rape
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An epic documentary tries to tell the story of reggae giant Bob Marley
Marley May 26 – 31, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org In Denis Johnson's 1985 post-apocalyptic novel Fiskadoro, the world has experienced a catastrophic nuclear event, and pockets of civilization fashion a...
Tags: New York City, Religion and Belief, Skin Cancer, Entertainment, Peter Tosh
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China now more popular than the U.S., poll says
World NowChina has grown more popular than the United States, according to a recently released poll that quizzed more than 24,000 people about whether countries and the European Union affected the world for good or for ill.... -
West African troops in Guinea-Bissau to restore order after coup
World NowA West African bloc is sending hundreds of troops to the tiny nation of Guinea-Bissau, part of a regional attempt to restore order after the latest military coup in its tumultuous history.... -
Global push to guarantee health coverage leaves U.S. behind
WASHINGTON — Even as Americans debate whether to scrap President Obama's healthcare law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all...
Tags: Cancer, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Chile
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Capsule movie reviews: 'Elles' delves past facades
In the film "Elles"from director Malgoska Szumowska, Juliette Binoche plays a Paris magazine journalist who interviews two young women (Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig) putting themselves through school working as prostitutes. The girls envy her...
Tags: New York City, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Human Interest, Michael Bay
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Liberia's Charles Taylor guilty of aiding, abetting war crimes
World NowFormer Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity. Taylor faces a possible life sentence for his role in arming ruthless rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in exchange for "blood... -
Berimbau Soul: Trinity College's Samba Fest picks up steam in Hartford
Several years ago, Trinity College music professor Eric Galm was looking for ways to bridge his scholarly interests in Brazilian music and his students’ research with Hartford musical happenings. “It really started with a student samba...
Tags: Slavery, Students, Festive Events, Music, Brazil
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Flight quarantined at Midway in monkeypox scare
A Minnesota woman who caused a health scare aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Detroit — resulting in the plane being kept on the tarmac at Midway Airport for three hours — says it was all a misunderstanding over bug bites.
Lise Sievers of...Tags: Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, Vaccines, Midway, Africa
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