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• IUDs: Is This Kind of Birth Control Right for You?
• Malawi: Children protest over teachers' strike
• Scuffles break out as students protest in central London
• 6 Answers for Consumers About the New Gainful Employment Rule

IUDs: Is This Kind of Birth Control Right for You? Posted: 19 Nov 2014 11:45 AM PST While earning her master's degree in architecture, Emilie Schmitz barely had time to sleep, let alone remember to take a birth control pill every day. She'd already tried the contraceptive patch -- a thin plastic strip that sticks to the body and delivers hormones through the skin -- but it had given her a rash. She didn't like needles and had no desire to choose Depo-Provera, the pregnancy-preventing shot. ...

Malawi: Children protest over teachers' strike Posted: 19 Nov 2014 09:03 AM PST BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — About 500 schoolchildren broke classroom windows and damaged cars to protest a strike by their teachers in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, on Wednesday.

Scuffles break out as students protest in central London Posted: 19 Nov 2014 08:04 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Scuffles broke out and missiles were thrown at police as thousands of students marched through the center of London on Wednesday to protest against a rise in higher education fees. Some 5,000 demonstrators marched to Parliament Square where a small group broke away and breached temporary barriers to confront police outside the Houses of Parliament. "Various missiles were thrown at the officers," Scotland Yard said in a statement. Three officers suffered minor injuries. By mid-afternoon there had been no arrests, it added. ...

6 Answers for Consumers About the New Gainful Employment Rule Posted: 19 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST The U.S. Department of Education has once again issued a final set of gainful employment regulations. If this sounds familiar, it's because the department has issued final gainful employment rules in the past too, only to have most of them dismissed in court as a result of a lawsuit filed by an association that represents for-profit colleges and universities.

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