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development of the community.
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apparently gave it to a friend, who subsequently dumped it in the trash.
A man brought it into a police station in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn on Monday morning after seeing schoolchildren playing with it, police said.
Street kids rub shoulders with rich
The students were asked to draw on topics like �Me as a citizen�, �Our future�, �My city and me�, �My dream�, �A social message to the government�.
The design revolution
came up with a Caribbean beach theme, along with automatic flushes and taps, and a plasma screen on the wall for information and entertainment. Now the school is looking to raise the �40,000 it needs to build the toilets, but head Sue Alton says the children have already reaped benefits from working with him.
"It really raised their aspirations. They were the ones in charge. They felt they were listened to, that they were treated like grown-ups and their ideas were important. And it also made them think about all kinds of things - maths, careers, design."
Dennis the Menace toons in to children's growing love of novels
In a change of tack from his usual preoccupation with terrorising his family and schoolchums, Dennis, along with his canine sidekick, Gnasher, will star in two novels, where they will also do battle with the curse of Fort Fearsome not to mention buried treasure and man-eating whales.
Music to heal the mind
wounds caused by a tragic accident in the city more than two years ago.
Empowering young minds
year up to the eighth grade.
Marketers target kids with junk food ads
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Following this, the children acted out scenes on important moral principles in life such as helping others, respecting parents and elders and improving themselves in all aspects.
The highlight of the evening was the Ramayana drama, an Indian epic relating the story of Lord Rama�s victory over the evil Rawana and his 14 years �banishment�� to the forest with his beautiful wife Sita and humble protector Hanuman.
There was also a drama �Where Letchumi Resides�� depicting the story of Goddess Mahalakshmi appearing in the dream of a man.
She informed him that she would be leaving his household for good and requested him to make his last wish.
He told the Goddess that he would consult his wife and children before telling her his wish.
The family then got together and after much deliberation, the eldest daughter told her father that what was important was for the family tto have a peaceful and happy life.
The Goddess, upon hearing this after re-appearing in the man�s dream, decided not to leave the household.
Besides acting and dancing, the children also showed their talent in poetry recitals and religious songs.
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Police described the launcher as a one-shot light anti-tank weapon, but gave no further details. It had already been fired and could not be used again.
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Parth Patel of St. Xavier�s Loyola tried to paint his social message � �Role of a sarpanch� onto the paper.He comes from Upera, a remote village where he saw basic amenities such as education and medication missing.
Students from affluent schools shared colours with students from municipal schools. Those children who had dropped out of school, too participated in this event.
While most of the children painted what they wanted to be, there were a few who tried to spread a message of communal harmony through their paintings.
�I had heard about how riots had affected children like me. But I had never met them. Today, we are not only together but are also sharing our colours. The girl sitting besides me wants to become a teacher. I do not know how to help her but I wish she becomes a teacher,� said Sagar Parmar of Navjivan High School.
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Meanwhile pupils at Monkseaton High School, in Whitley Bay, just outside Newcastle, discovered that working with a top architect not only raised aspirations, but also exam results. Sixth-formers at the school told London-based architect Keith Priest they wanted more light and air in their cramped classrooms. He worked with them to come up with a design for rounded steel "pods" that could be clamped onto the side of the existing, bleak 1960s building.
Although this was only a design exercise, and the pods were not built, the school became so excited about the potential of good design that it found �4,000 to transform its design and art centre. Since then the proportion of pupils getting A* to C grades in GCSE graphics has shot up from 38 per cent to 86 per cent, in the GCSE in resistant materials from 27 per cent to 64 per cent, and A level uptake for project design has more than doubled.
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Many of the well-known characters will appear in the books, such as his rival, Walter the Softy, who, in the first adventure, Monster Surprise, will attempt to hamper Dennis�s efforts to save the Loch Mess Monster from having its habitat turned into a holiday village.
The two 96-page adventures - Monster Surprise and Heebie Jeebie Holiday - are aimed at under ten-year-olds and older children respectively.
Rhoda Miller, the author of Monster Surprise, said Dennis had the popularity of Harry Potter to thank for his literary incarnation.
Dan McGachey, a first-time author who wrote Heebie Jeebie Holiday, said: "It was the interest of taking the character in a new direction that drew me. In the annuals, they had done longer stories about Dennis and this was a chance to expand on these and do something a bit bigger.
"Depending on how these ones do, we are considering doing more novels along this line, which I would like to be involved in. My novel is aimed at the nine to 12-year-olds. I quite enjoy reading literature that is aimed at that age group myself. I think there is a lot of interesting stuff going on there."
He added: "My story has Dennis sent to an army fort, which is a crumbling old castle. But he discovers that there is more than soldiers there. He finds a ghost, an ancient curse and hidden treasure.
Dennis and his pals will also be aiming to break into another key children�s market with the release of a computer game later this week.
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In July 2001, 11 people, mostly children, died and about 250 others were injured in a crush on a pedestrian overpass during a fireworks display.
Relatives of the victims are still coming to terms with the accident.
The overpass, with its magnificent view of the Akashi Strait Bridge and Awajishima island, is now associated with tragedy.
The city stopped holding the annual fireworks display, a favorite among local children, and scores of smaller festivals in the city were canceled due to safety concerns.
About a year after the tragedy, Sado received a letter from Katsuisa Hiraoka, the chairman of the festival's organizing committee.
"He wanted to do something for people who had suffered from the accident and asked for my advice," the conductor recalled.
Hiraoka, a company president, wrote of his anguish in the letter, although at no point was he considered in any way responsible for the accident.
"I talked to members of the organizing committee and decided to do something to help people look forward," Hiraoka said.
"I happened to attend one of his concerts before the accident. Children from the audience were given the chance to conduct, which they seemed to enjoy very much. I've often thought about him since."
In the upcoming concert, a string orchestra comprising 20 children aged 9-16 will perform works by a range of composers, including Grieg, Mozart and Vivaldi.
The children were selected from among more than 160 applicants across the country through a series of screenings, auditions and interviews.
Sado, 42, uses his energy and charisma to entice the children into rehearsing earnestly, while reminding them that music is supposed to be fun.
The children's concert will be the second Sado has organized in Akashi. His first was in September 2002--a "Band Clinic" at the Akashi concert hall with wind musicians from local middle and high school bands.
About 800 students, their teachers and parents took part.
Sado took the stage before 70 musicians selected among the students and took them through a rehearsal of Alfred Reed's "Armenian Dance, Part I." The band then performed the piece under Sado's baton.
"Come on to the stage with your instruments, everybody," he told members of the audience just before the finale. More than 100 students in the audience then joined the band for a rousing rendition of John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
"Mr. Sado was a powerful leader," said a girl who had played clarinet. "He seemed surprised to see so many students join us for the finale. My friends and I really want to do this again."
In the hall's lobby during a break, five brass musicians from the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra played several pieces, including a version of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" for the tuba.
"The hall was packed and everyone seemed very happy," Hiraoka said. "Some of their teachers told me they had improved dramatically thanks to Sado."
Sado was careful not to forget about the students who didn't make the cut. "I wrote to the children who weren't selected and gave them some advice for future auditions," he said.
"They have nothing to be worried about. It's not a stain on their careers. I also failed. They need to overcome these setbacks to succeed. My hope is that children realize that only they can open the door on their dreams."
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The celebratory tone Nov. 5 was meant to be more than a party, school leaders said. They want the experience of being at Empowerment Academy to be an event as joyous as the circus coming to town, and they hope the small scholars there will feel as important as movie stars.
Visual and performing arts are a major focus in the school. In one classroom, nicknamed "The Village," pupils learn the art of storytelling through dance, music and improvisation.
The room is decorated to look more like a cozy den than a classroom. Colorful tapestries from Kenya, called kangas, hang from windows. Draperies from India cover the chalkboards. Corners are accented with Japanese fans or Chinese dolls.
"They need to know we're more than just Baltimore. We're more than just the children in the city," said theater arts teacher Maria Broom, who is on loan to the academy from the Baltimore School for the Arts.
"There are so many people around the world who dress differently than they do, sing differently, dance differently."
At the grand opening, many children, in song and dance, were showing off what they are being taught.
We learn to read
We learn about the world
We learn how to treat others
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Most of the food marketed directly to children is high in calories and low in nutrition, the group says.
"Parents are fighting a losing battle against food manufacturers and fast-food restaurants, which use aggressive and sophisticated techniques to get into children's heads and prompt them to pester their parents to purchase the company's products," said Margo Wootan, the Center's director of nutrition policy, in a news release.
In its report, the Center highlighted several examples of companies targeting children:
A program run by Krispy Kreme offered elementary school children a free doughnut for every "A" on their report cards.
A Barbie doll dressed as a McDonald's clerk
A profile of New York Yankee Jason Giambi, which quotes him saying "I usually have several Pepsis each day � it really lifts me up."
The Center urged the U.S. Congress, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services to set nutrition standards for food that can be marketed to children.