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Disciplining with kindness makes suspensions drop 85%.

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Around the country, anonymous donors are paying off layaway accounts at K-Mart for poor families.

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BBC News - England riots: What are the Post-it note 'love walls' all about?Rowenna Davis, a councillor in the London borough of Southwark, which includes Peckham, says the spontaneous "wall of love" was "about the silent majority expressing themselves in colour, words and community - rather than violence and destruction ( Read more... )

Possum and joey survive chainsaw

A possum and her joey who survived a round with a chainsaw are expected to make a full recovery to the astonishment of vets.

It was a terrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the hapless pair, dubbed Chainsaw and Two-Stroke by carers at the ( Currumbin Wildlife Hospital. )