News tagged with orphanages
Foster care associated with improved growth, intelligence compared to orphanage care
Socially deprived children removed from orphanages and placed in foster care appear to experience gains in growth and intelligence, catching up to their non-institutionalized peers on many measures, according to a report ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Study finds orphanages are viable options for some children
A Duke University study of more than 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children in five Asian and African countries has found that children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better than those who live in the community.
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Dec 18, 2009 |
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Poachers may wipe out rhinos in S. Africa, campaigner warns
Rhinos will be wiped out from South Africa's wildlife parks by 2015 if poaching continues at its current rate, a campaigner fighting to save the beasts has warned.
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Dinosaur detectives put themselves on display
Putting itself on display through a clear glass window, the Cornell-affiliated Museum of the Earth's fossil preparation laboratory has opened to visitors, who can now watch paleontologists -- including several ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Sri Lankan elephant numbers are 'healthy': survey
Sri Lanka's elephant population remains healthy despite decades of fighting between government and rebel forces, the first survey since the end of the nation's bloody civil war showed Friday.
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans
Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Laugh and apes laugh with you
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like humans, chimpanzees mimic the laughter of their playmates even if they don't find the situation as 'funny'.
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Chimpanzees respond to infant death nearly same as humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands report in detail how a chimpanzee mother responds to the death of her infant. The chimpanzee ...
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Hollywood-style special effects give girl new ear
(AP) -- Elise Lutz never let her friends see what was left of her ear. She'd carefully style her long hair into a one-sided ponytail, or swelter under a swim cap for hours at meets, to cover the molten lump ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Report: Mexico's disabled live in squalor, vanish
(AP) -- Mexico has done little over the past decade to improve the squalid living conditions of mentally disabled adults and children who are in institutions, an international advocacy group charged Tuesday.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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ATLAS physicists release an album
The astonishing ATLAS Experiment at CERN in Geneva has already made headlines around the world for its pioneering research into the origins of the Universe. But incredibly, after discovering that a large number ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds.
Sep 02, 2010 |
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