Dafna Aviv Module E

Under a new plan intended to address Britain's growing problem of school absenteeism, the British government has proposed granting principals, welfare workers and police officers the right to fine the parents of students who are chronically absent from school.

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What flashes and shouts when it sees something moving, thus helping to stop crime? No, not a high-tech police robot, something much simpler: a modified film camera that helps prevent graffiti vandalism.

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Games in the garden, personal trainers, behavioral psychologists, massage therapists, beauticians, healthy food, custom-made beds covered in fake fur, are all just part of the pampering of clients at the Trianon Palace hotel on the edge of Versailles in France. There is nothing very exceptional here, except that these clients are not people. They are dogs.

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Our youth are bombarded with commercial messages from so many sources every day. They need to start learning how to separate fact from fantasy. Everyone spends money, but not everyone knows how to get the most for what they spend. Children spend billions of dollars for millions of products such toys, video, clothing, music and food.

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It begins even before you say your first word in an interview. By the time the interviewer walks towards you, an opinion is already being formed. There you sit waiting to answer questions, while you are already being judged by your appearance, posture, smile or nervous look.

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Each December, the New York Times Magazine looks back at the year through an unusual lens: ideas. They send out a team of researchers and reporters to investigate the latest thinking in every subject imaginable, and to bring back the most innovative, intriguing and promising ideas they can find.

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Most northern birds deal with food shortages that winter brings by simply heading south. But others try to survive by storing food in caches during the fall. Food-storing birds, such as crows, nuthatches, chickadees and jays, make 100 to 200 caches a day, sometimes traveling miles to bury food in the crevices of tree bark, in hollow stems, or under leaves.

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You may think that listening to and understanding opera is far beyond your comprehension. Not so! In this enjoyable and enlightening course, you will trace the history of opera from its beginnings in the early seventeenth century to around 1924.

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Sleep is not just a matter of physically recharging; it affects the brain's memory-recording processes, and perhaps protects them as well. In a study carried out at the University of Chicago, scientists trained college-age people to perform specific tasks, then tested them to see how much they recalled after either a night's sleep or several hours of being awake.

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One pleasant spring afternoon last year, a group of teenagers attacked a 15-year-old girl on a playing field near Berlin. They punched her in the Face and pushed her to the ground just because the victim refused to hand over her money. The attackers were not a gang of rowdy boys, but a band of 13-to 15-year-old girls

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