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Coming out: What it’s like to be transgender in China

In 2012, news of a Qingdao house fire went viral. The report, which was originally posted on news and lifestyle website Qingdao Shenghuo, was reposted over a thousand times. The homeowner, a waste picker with long hair and amateurish heavy makeup, went on television and became the center of controversy. She was Liu Peilin, a 63-year-old transgender woman who had been raised by a foster family.
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UNESCO launches global media literacy week with concern over disinformation, elections and “lost generation” of youth

UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week kicked off today with keynote speakers, students and citizens talking about a world at war between truth and disinformation, changing everything from education and governance to the shape of tomorrow’s cities.
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Developing Dubai — amid skyscrapers, a push for sustainability

The population of Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, was approximately 2.5 million as of 2016. It is a city that has grown very rapidly since the 1990s, with skyscrapers rising out of nowhere. But how could it have grown so rapidly and still remain so organized? It retains a rigid city plan, with clear limits and regular shapes. But does this mean it is sustainable?
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Goodbye PyeongChang, hello Paris — city of light already working on 2024 Summer Olympics

If you were to go to most stadiums in the world today, you would expect thousands of people packed into a large, but cramped space.Now imagine a family excursion to the stadium of the future: Once the family goes through the front gates, Mom heads off to go shopping while Dad sits down to watch the nail-biting soccer game. Tomorrow’s stadium would be complete with wind turbines, reusable water storage and a complete ecosystem on the roof. 
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More than s’mores — Muslim youth camp nurtures students for a life of advocacy

For practicing Muslims, the name itself is a clear clue: An Arabic word, “tarbiya” is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of Islam as “upbringing (and) education” and by other sources as “training” or “discipline.” And that makes Tarbiya a place where finding your inner path is just as important as roasting marshmallows or playing dodgeball.
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VIDEO: High school students help Houston recover from Hurricane Harvey

Ronald Parker, 65, lost his home for the third time during Hurricane Harvey. So did Rabbi Barry Gelman of United Orthodox Synagogue. Parker and Gelman were two of many Houston residents who received five days of assistance and support from students at Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, who traveled to Houston to help rebuild.
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Voices of the Square: Green School Bali — ‘the world isn’t learning enough’ about climate change

As a group, we were inspired by this moving story and decided to put our own spin on it: We wanted to connect with other people about climate change. We did this by constructing a dome-shaped booth structure out of bamboo and lined the inside with cloth to make it a private space.
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‘You just gotta get on’ — how foreigners in South Korea balance daily life, fears over military tensions

A series of nuclear tests by North Korea over the past year — including its sixth and largest test of a hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3, which prompted UN sanctions —  have spiked worry among South Korean citizens. We spoke to three teachers at Chadwick International School in Songdo about how they are dealing with their fears, their jobs and the concerns of loved ones back home.
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Top earthquake tip for high school students in Korea — stop studying, take cover

"All of us were surprised because this was the first big earthquake we experienced, but we were told to stay in the classroom and evacuated much later," she said. "Though we have earthquake safety exercises a few times every semester, our buildings are not earthquake proof and our dormitories rarely have teachers around.”
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VIDEO: No such thing as choice in U.S. public education? Check out Pender Early College High School

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made headlines again this week with comments on the need for more school choice for high school students, saying that public schools often don't offer enough options and proposing charter schools or vouchers for private schools instead. But public school districts often do offer choices, as GSS correspondent James Stars shows in this report.
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Appeals court set to rule on restraint of Muslim ban as California student journalists cover impact of “Executive Disorder”

Beginning Friday, Jan. 27, student journalists at the Blue Devil Hub spent the next seven days covering an airport protest in San Francisco, a fundraising drive that raised $22,000 for a local Islamic mosque after it was vandalized on Jan. 22, the story of a Davis High School parent who was refused permission to travel to Iran for her father's memorial service after the Trump ban went into effect, and a meeting of the local school board to answer questions on "what can schools do to protect their most vulnerable students from a federal government that is targeting them and their families?"
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As Trump becomes @POTUS, some still debate role of social media, fake news, memes in his victory

Not surprisingly, a Stanford study released on Nov. 21 found that most teenagers were not able to distinguish between online opinions/sponsored content and news. This, combined with the scope of false articles that rippled through Facebook in the weeks and months prior to the election, has led some to wonder if fake news directly affected voters’ choices and students’ opinions.
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