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• Seattle school bus waiting to pick up kids hit by gunfire, no one hurt
• Chemical exposure in Syria tied to miscarriages, birth defects
• Jail sought for 2 teachers at Jakarta international school
• In wake of Oklahoma racist chant, how can colleges reform fraternities?

Seattle school bus waiting to pick up kids hit by gunfire, no one hurt Posted: 12 Mar 2015 04:45 PM PDT A school bus arriving outside a Seattle elementary school to pick up children at the end of the day on Thursday was struck by gunfire, prompting a lockdown of the school and a search for suspects, but no one was hurt, city police and school officials said. The bus driver heard loud noises, then saw that two windows in the vehicle had been shattered and realized that the bus was under fire before he took shelter inside the school, Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman Stacy Howard said. The shooting occurred shortly before 4 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, which has a student body of about 370 children in kindergarten through fifth grade, Howard said. As a precaution, students and staff at another elementary school and a middle school in the vicinity were also ordered to "shelter in place," she said.

Chemical exposure in Syria tied to miscarriages, birth defects Posted: 12 Mar 2015 10:24 AM PDT By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women exposed to chemical weapons during the August 2013 attack in Syria were much more likely to miscarry or deliver prematurely, new findings show. The study also found a high rate of serious birth defects among babies whose mothers had been exposed to poison gas. "This is a starting point, and I hope that it opens the door for way more research and study," Dr. Sawsan Jabri, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health in a telephone interview. On August 21, 2013, the Syrian government launched a chemical attack against rebel strongholds outside Damascus, which killed more than 1,600, according to Dr. Jabri, who is a candidate for a master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Jail sought for 2 teachers at Jakarta international school Posted: 12 Mar 2015 09:17 AM PDT JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday sought 12-year jail terms for a Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant accused of sexually abusing three young children at a prestigious international school.

In wake of Oklahoma racist chant, how can colleges reform fraternities? Posted: 11 Mar 2015 05:03 PM PDT The college, which had already been working to combat hazing, took even more steps and did a lot of work to help the fraternities and sororities change. "We're working with college students, who make poor decisions sometimes," says Allison Swick-Duttine, director of fraternity/sorority life for the campus.

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