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The residents of Akashi can hardly wait for the opening performance of Sado's Super Kids Orchestra at Akashi municipal concert hall on Friday. The stars of the show will not be professional musicians, but children themselves. The event aims to give local people, particularly children, something to feel good about and to heal the psychological |
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Vadodara, Gujarat, India: Blame it on the fast food culture, cyber-savvy lifestyle or the ‘couch potato’ syndrome. An alarming increase in diabetes among younger children and adolescents reflects on the sedentary lifestyle adopted by this age group. |
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Music to heal the mind -Hiroko Ihara / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer |
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Empowering young minds By Tanika White, Sun Staff |
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Celebration: Song, dance and marching mark the grand opening of a West Baltimore school striving to be innovative. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 12, 2003 Baltimore, USA- Two marching bands clanged through the city streets. Dancers high-stepped. A jubilant choir sang. Dignitaries gathered 'round, and when the guests of honor arrived, a beaming crowd rose and applauded - long and hard. It wasn't the Super Bowl-winning Ravens, or a victorious politician on Election Night. These celebrities were elementary school children - with sagging uniform sweaters and snaggleteeth - who were helping last week to show off their new primary school, the Empowerment Academy. The school, in the old Lafayette Elementary School building on Braddish Avenue in West Baltimore, is the system's 11th in the New Schools Initiative. With 82 pupils from pre-kindergarten through second grade enrolled, the school will add a class each |
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Empowerment Academy teachers and pupils and the Morgan State band march to celebrate the city school's grand opening. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor) |
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More Details http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20031112wo38.htm |
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http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.empower12nov12,0,1192390.story?coll=bal-local-headlines |
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WASHINGTON, USA - Marketing aimed at young children has doubled in the last decade, and most of it is pushing junk food, an American consumer advocacy group said Monday. The Center for Science in the Public Interest says advertising aimed at children undermines parental authority and contributes to the epidemic of obesity among American |
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Marketers target kids with junk food ads: consumers group CBC News Online staff |
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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/11/Consumers/kids_junk031111 |
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