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23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa	17.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.
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Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts	17.5.2013	American Prospect
This week, the Senate and House committees in charge of agriculture passed farm bills —mammoth bills that will last for five years if passed and signed—and sent them to their chamber floors. The bills handle farm policy, but the vast majority of their spending goes to a program that has proven a rich target for a Washington drunk on spending cuts—the food stamp program. The House bill would lower benefits across the board, cutting a fourth of the program’s $80 billion budget . The Senate bill would trim $4.4 billion from food stamps. Many of the cuts in both bills come from getting rid of a program that allowed states to streamline the ways they provide assistance to the poor. In true bureaucratic fashion, the program has an unwieldy name: “Categorical Eligibility.” Conservative lawmakers call it “automatic eligibility” to make it sound as though people who aren’t poor are finding food stamp cards in their mailboxes. In reality, the federal government is allowing states to be more generous ...
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NYC parents of slain children expecting baby boy	17.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City couple whose two children police say were fatally stabbed by their nanny are expecting a baby boy.
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23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa	17.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.
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23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa
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23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa	17.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.
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NYC parents of 2 kids found stabbed in bathtub expecting baby boy; nanny charged in killings	17.5.2013	Star Tribune: Nation

Death toll rises in Mpumalanga initiation deaths	17.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests.
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Death toll rises in Mpumalanga initiation deaths	17.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police say 23 youths have died over a period of nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests.
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Russia sends advanced missiles to aid Assad in Syria	17.5.2013	MSNBC
Russia sends advanced missiles to aid Assad in Syria
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5 hurt as vehicle crashes into Miss. McDonald's	17.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
BYRAM, Miss.—A sport utility truck has plowed into the children's play area of a McDonald's restaurant outside of Jackson, Miss.
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5 hurt as vehicle crashes into Miss. McDonald's	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
5 hurt as vehicle crashes into Miss. McDonald's
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5 hurt as vehicle crashes into children's play area at McDonald's outside Jackson, Miss.	17.5.2013	Star Tribune: Nation

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Photos of the Day: May 16	17.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: World
In today's pictures, rescue workers comb through debris in Texas, a U.S. soldier responds to a bomb attack in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama checks the weather, and more.
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Hicks: Model says Kourney Kardashian's son is his	17.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
Also: Wade Robson talks Michael Jackson molestation accusations; Taj Jackson says someone in mother’s family molested him; Naked Bea Arthur painting fetches nearly $2 million; Zoe Saldana says she’s OK with her weight.
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Mother of children allegedly slain by New York nanny is pregnant again	17.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York mother who lost two of her children to homicide - and whose former nanny will stand trial for double murder - is pregnant again. Marina Krim and her husband, Kevin, announced the pregnancy on a Facebook page established in memory of their two slain children, Lulu, 6, and Leo, 2. The couple had another child, Nessie, who was 3 years old and out with her mother when her brother and sister were killed last year. ...
Parents of kids allegedly killed by nanny expecting a baby	17.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
The parents of two young children killed last fall allegedly by their nanny announced Thursday that they are expecting a baby this fall. Kevin and Marina Krim broke the news on a Facebook page established in the memory of their children, Lulu, 6, and Leo, 2, who were found stabbed to death in their Manhattan [...]
Afghans tell of US soldier's killing rampage	17.5.2013	World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012. ...
911 calls released in slaying of SC children	16.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman who authorities say killed her two young children and seriously injured her husband crashed her pickup into a tree so hard the roots came out of the ground, according to 911 calls released Thursday.
Positively Minnesota: Nonprofit Curbs Growing Homeless Youth Population	16.5.2013	WCCO: National
Minnesota's homeless youth population is growing. On any given night, 2,500 young people spend the night on couches, car backseats, or worst of all, at city parks across the Metro. More than 10,000 Minnesotans younger than 18 will experience homelessness in some form this year.
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