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		Headlines Fight for Games glory (Sydney Morning Herald) IOC Olympic pins - intended for SOCOG staff as a reward for their efforts - are still waiting to be distributed as a fight rages over who should get them. Many of the most deserving seem to have been left off the list. More Education News VIC: School buses crash, 16 hurt (Herald Sun) Fifteen school children, some as young as six, were injured in a two-bus smash in Narre Warren yesterday. The school buses, both carrying about 20 students from the Hillcrest Christian College, collided at the intersection of Cranbourne and Centre roads. SA: Students roll back a schoolyard century (The Advertiser) With fingers outstretched and palms facing down, the girls and boys of Littlehampton Primary School lined up for a fingernail inspection yesterday. NAT: Child work rules may hit family businesses (Sydney Morning Herald) A State Government-commissioned report proposing a limit on the number of hours children can work has been kept secret for fear of its impact on family businesses. NSW: Top police school investigated (Sydney Morning Herald) The Australian Federal Police have been called in to investigate the Australian Institute of Police Management at Manly - the nation's elite level school for senior police. VIC: PhD done, 83-year-old plans some books (The Age) Eric Hewitt thought his brain was in danger of "becoming a bit addled". So he started his PhD. That was four years ago. He was 79. UK: Gap between black and white expands (BBC) A quarter of young black Caribbean men believe they were unfairly treated at school because of the colour of their skin, a new survey reveals Uganda: Ebola closes 300 schools (BBC) The government has closed 300 schools and restricted the movement of pupils following the recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in northern Uganda. USA: Report cards on parents are a lesson in diplomacy (Chicargo Tribune) Chicago Public Schools issued its first "parents' report cards" Wednesday in up to 210 elementary schools as a way to gently nudge parents to be more accountable for their child's education, officials said. National News Referee blows the whistle on Souths (The Australian) Jamie Lyons, Souths fan of 41 years, had a cigar in his mouth, ready to light, when Justice Paul Finn ruled the Rabbitohs could play again. Panadol taken off shelves (Daily Telegraph) Australia's biggest-selling painkiller Panadol is being taken off store shelves and sold only over the counter for "additional security", its maker says. Lawyer wins battle to ditch the Queen (The Mercury) A Tasmanian law graduate who refused to swear allegiance to the Queen will finally be admitted to the bar. Carl Moller's staunch republican stand sparked a legal wrangle that lasted almost three years. International News Old arrest haunts Bush (The Australian) A 24-year-old drink driving charge, imposed on George W. Bush after a day out with tennis legend John Newcombe, became the first piece of dirt to land in the cleanest US election campaign in memory &endash; and no one wanted to go near it PM's plea to rebels: Give yourselves up for your own sake (Sydney Morning Herald) Grim-faced, Fiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, last night appealed to between 15 and 20 rebel soldiers to give themselves up after the group eluded authorities following Thursday's gun battle at Suva's Queen Elizabeth barracks. Murders and mutilation in Iraq revealed (The Guardian) Barbarous acts perpetrated on Iraqi political prisoners and women persist under Saddam Hussein's regime in spite of a decade of international economic sanctions engineered by the west to topple him, according to restricted Foreign Office documents obtained by the Guardian. IT and Science News Napster fans rue day free music died (Sydney Morning Herald) Music-loving Internet users are deserting the pirate Web site Napster, accusing it of selling out to big business and betraying the community that built it into an online icon Digital projection: coming soon? (Wired) Theater owners say it's only a matter of time before celluloid film will be a relic, and your local movie house will be running digital movies. Critics aren't so sure. More dispute over hands-free (Wired) A British consumer group says its research shows that hands-free earpieces could more than triple the brain's exposure to radiation compared to a conventional mobile-phone call. Feature Article Beazley alone on education assault (The Age) Labor Premiers yesterday failed to support Kim Beazley's fierce campaign against the Howard Government's new higher funding for non-government schools. Instead they raised concerns about funding for government schools, the widening gap between government and independent schools and the potential for the new scheme to allow too much federal intervention in the running of state schools. Word of the Day reciprocate, n. 1. intr. a. To go back, return; to have a backward direction. Obs. b. To move backwards and forwards (now only Mech.); to go up and down, to vary (obs.). c. trans. To alternate the direction of; to cause to move backwards and forwards.
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