As a mother of three it has been a challenge for me to balance a life of children, work and school.

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While it is true that college graduates do, on average, earn more over their lifetimes than those possessing only a high school degree, it has not been demonstrated convincingly that college attendance causes this wage differential.

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Called Repevax, it has been given to all three year old children as a pre-school booster for nearly a decade and health officials point to its excellent safety record.

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While we have each participated in our own way in building an advocacy movement around Darfur, it has been the high-school and college students who have made Darfur a political issue too important to be ignored, and who are now preparing similar campaigns for Congo.

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Professor Stuart Campbell, of St George's Hospital Medical School who has been testing the treatment, said it was a "most exciting" development.

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"There's a connection that you're representing something bigger than yourself that adds to the experience and the emotions behind it, " said retired gymnast Kirk Mango, a collegiate Division I national champion who has been coaching high school sports for 30 years in Illinois.

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