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• On school tour, Newtown parents thank teachers
• 5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled
• Pakistanis bury slain teachers, aid workers
• Harvard Law to offer first free online course

On school tour, Newtown parents thank teachers Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:15 PM PST MONROE, Conn. (AP) — On a tour Wednesday of his daughter's new school, Vinny Alvarez took a moment to thank her third-grade teacher, who protected the class from a rampaging gunman by locking her classroom door and keeping the children in a corner.

5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST Pakistani police on Wednesday searched for the gunmen behind the brazen murder of five teachers and two health workers, amid fears that public health campaigns would suffer and lead to a resurgence of polio and other preventable diseases.

Pakistanis bury slain teachers, aid workers Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:24 AM PST SWABI, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of villagers in northwest Pakistan turned out Wednesday to bury five female teachers and two health workers who were gunned down a day earlier by militants in what may have been the latest in a series of attacks targeting anti-polio efforts in the country.

Harvard Law to offer first free online course Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST The higher education system in the United States may be about to transform radically, but don't expect Harvard Law School to be caught flat-footed.

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