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A study says conditions have improved for illegal immigrant children in federal custody who arrived in the United States without parents or guardians.

Parents may be paying twice for their college students' health insurance. Often, they're paying for private insurance plus health insurance fees buried in overall college costs. Less than a quarter of college clinic fees ever get reimbursed by private insurers. Now, the attorney general's office in New York state is investigating college disclosure policies about health care fees.

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AUGUSTA : State Sen. John Nutting, D-Androscoggin County, will present legislation Wednesday, Feb.

China will spend 580bn yuan (£59.5bn) expanding its energy sector in 2009 with plans for new solar and wind-powered generating capacity, but also nuclear and coal-fired plants.State-owned power companies were stepping up investment to meet growing demand and boost economic growth as part of a government stimulus plan, said Zhang Guobao, director of China's National Energy Administration. He also called on ministers to ensure there were appropriate measures to raise and save energy as well as using it more efficiently.China is heavily dependent on cheap coal to generate much of its electricity but is on a drive to cut carbon and other pollution in its smog-filled cities by going at least partly green. Statistics show it consumed 2.74bn tonnes of coal in 2008, up 4.5% on the previous year, but the rate of growth was 1.6% lower than in 2007.China's wind market is one of the fastest growing in the world with the exception of the US. A recent study by the Global Wind Energy Council pr

A shortage of state funding has prevented three Germantown elementary schools from joining an enrichment program that encourages interest among minorities and girls in careers in science, engineering and mathematics.

I never thought I would be saying this, but being a free woman isn't all it's cracked up to be. Is that the rustle of taffeta I hear as the suffragettes turn in their graves? Possibly. My mother was a hippy who kept a pile of (dusty) books by Germaine Greer and Erica Jong by her bed (like every good feminist, she didn't see why she should do all the cleaning). She imbued me with the great values of choice, equality and sexual liberation. I fought with my older brother and won; at university I beat the rugby lads at drinking games. I was not to be messed with.