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The Saddest King
by Christopher Wormell
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Once there was a country where the people were always happy. They would smile and laugh when the sun shone down, when it poured with rain and even when the snow fell and their teeth were chattering. Nothing ever made them sad or cross.
But this is the story of a small [...]

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This billboard was displayed all over Milan for fashion week.
Here is a very moving interview with Caro (English)
Here is another (Italian)

This billboard features Isabelle Caro, a 27-year old French woman with anorexia. She weighs just 31 kilos and has suffered from anorexia since she was 13.
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Caro says,
I’ve hidden myself and [...]

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It does not fortify my soul in the least to know that after I die all unmarried men will still be bachelors, that 37 will still be a prime number, that the stars will continue to shine, and that forever I will have been just what I am now. Away with these fake immortalities! They [...]

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EXCELLENCE AS A GUIDE TO EDUCATIONAL CONVERSATION
by Nel Noddings Stanford University
When people use the slogan, “All children can learn,” what exactly do they mean? Many probably mean that children of all minority and oppressed groups can learn as well as those of the privileged and dominant classes. Used this way, the slogan is a reminder [...]

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For farmers this is devastating. For us city-slickers it depresses us to watch our garden’s wilt away. We don’t like our rushed, short showers… We anxiously await even further water restrictions….
But for over one billion people this is not even imaginable. Their reality is incomparable. Each day 4,000 children die as a [...]

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