The General Accounting Office notes that its figures are probably understated since there is still no national system for collecting data on pesticide exposure among schoolchildren.

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So, as Father Flynn preaches, Sister Aloysius moves among the schoolchildren admonishing some for various minor transgressions.

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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said the disease was mainly spreading among unvaccinated schoolchildren and it was "seriously" concerned.

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In other words, studiousness is stigmatised among black schoolchildren.

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That figure already represents 13% of the Jewish male age group (Arab-Israelis are also exempt from the draft) and is set to grow fast: among Jewish schoolchildren, 26% of first-graders are haredi.

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Even now, South Africa's schoolchildren remain among the least numerate in the world, although literacy rates are improving.

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In one, three schoolchildren and a dog frolic among palm trees.

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Among those stranded by snowbound roads was a group of 120 German schoolchildren who had to be put up in Hastings town hall in East Sussex for the night when families due to look after them were unable to reach them.

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