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• Phila. company accused of scamming HS teens
• Teaching for Ferguson: Volunteer Educators Give Lessons in Compassion
• Hunger-striking father of S.Korean ferry victim hospitalised

Phila. company accused of scamming HS teens Posted: 22 Aug 2014 03:28 PM PDT Police are investigating a Philadelphia company accused of targeting high school students with promises of jobs and money for college but students say the organizers took the money they were owed and disappeared.

Teaching for Ferguson: Volunteer Educators Give Lessons in Compassion Posted: 22 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT After watching news reports about the violence, chaos, and heartbreak unfolding in Ferguson, Mo., last weekend, Deray McKesson—a school administrator in Minneapolis—didn't hesitate. "I needed to bear witness and be a part of it and see it and be a part of this story," McKesson, a young African American, said in an interview Thursday. Having grown up in a tough Baltimore neighborhood with drug-addicted parents, McKesson saw himself in the young man whose death spurred the unrest. Yet after enduring stinging tear gas and dodging heavily armed police, McKesson is now bearing witness in a different way.

Hunger-striking father of S.Korean ferry victim hospitalised Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:29 PM PDT The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea's ferry disaster was hospitalised Friday after mounting a 40-day hunger strike to demand a full independent inquiry. Kim Young-Oh, who lost his 16-year-old daughter when the Sewol ferry capsized in April, was sent to hospital from Seoul's central Gwanghwamun Square, where he had been protesting, Park Yong-Woo, a spokesman for the victims' families, told reporters. The Sewol capsized on April 16 off the country's southern coast with the loss of some 300 lives, most of them high school students on an organised trip. Some relatives of the victims have been camped out in Gwanghwamun for weeks to push parliament to pass legislation setting up a full, independent inquiry.

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