2012年9月2日星期日

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Beyond weddings and roses: Moon's US influence

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 29, 1997 file photo, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, center left, and his wife Hak Ja Han Moon officiate a mass wedding ceremony during at RFK Stadium in Washington. Moon, self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, has died at age 92 church officials said Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The mass weddings at Madison Square Garden and the roses sold by eager evangelists on street corners may be the most enduring images of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in the United States.


Teachers play truant in India's schools

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Indian school children read in a classroom at a government school in Bagpath district in Uttar PradeshOn any given day in a state primary school in India, up to one in four teachers is missing. The cost for a country that sees its young population as its ticket to superpower status is huge.


Back to school: From rural Africa to the Ivy League

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT

In early 2008, Joshua Foromera was a talented Zimbabwean high school graduate living as a refugee in South Africa. He fled Zimbabwe because of political and economic collapse, seeking higher education opportunities.
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