DURBAN, South Africa — Unknown among his fellow white South Africans, Tonie van der Merwe was the most popular filmmaker among black audiences in the 1970s and ’80s. He churned out about 400 movies under an apartheid subsidy system established to produce movies exclusively for blacks — with the right political and moral content. In fact, he helped create the system.

Hình ảnh những gánh hàng rong, và hình ảnh của cả những "tiếng rao Hà Nội" hiện đang được gìn giữ, trân trọng tại thư viện EFEO, thành phố Paris (Pháp).
Tại thư viện EFEO, thành phố Paris (Pháp) hiện đang lưu giữ rất nhiều bản thảo quý giá với tựa đề “Những gánh hàng rong và tiếng rao trên những con phố ở Hà Nội”. Tác phẩm được thực hiện bởi những học sinh của trường Mỹ thuật Đông Dương và tác giả người Pháp F de Fénis, năm 1929.

(Dân trí) - Tại Việt Nam, gần 3/4 trẻ em trong độ tuổi 2-14 đã từng bị cha mẹ, người chăm sóc hoặc những người khác trong gia đình trừng phạt bằng bạo lực.
Đó là thông tin được đưa đưa ra tại lễ phát động chiến dịch Chấm dứt bạo lực với trẻ em ở Việt Nam do UNICEF (Quỹ Nhi đồng Liên Hợp Quốc) tại Việt Nam phát động, vừa diễn ra tại Hòa Bình. Chiến dịch này cũng mở đầu cho tháng Hành động vì trẻ em năm 2014. Theo UNICEF,

One in five people in their 20s and early 30s is currently living with his or her parents. And 60 percent of all young adults receive financial support from them. That’s a significant increase from a generation ago, when only one in 10 young adults moved back home and few received financial support. …. Nearly 45 percent of 25-year-olds, for instance, have outstanding loans, with an average debt above $20,000. And more than half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, meaning they make substandard wages in jobs that don’t require a college degree.

New evidence produced by Paul Beaudry and David A. Green of the University of British Columbia, and Ben Sand of York University, demonstrates that the collapse, between 1980 and 2000, of mid-level, mid-pay jobs — gutted by automation or foreign competition (and often both) — has now spread to the high-skill labor market.

Americans have a split vision of education. Conventional wisdom has long held that our K-12 schools are mediocre or worse, while our colleges and universities are world class. While policy wonks hotly debate K-12 reform ideas like vouchers and the Common Core state standards, higher education is largely left to its own devices. Many families are worried about how to get into and pay for increasingly expensive colleges. But the stellar quality of those institutions is assumed.
Yet a recent multinational study of adult literacy and numeracy skills suggests that this view is wrong. America’s schools and colleges are actually far more alike than people believe — and not in a good way. The nation’s deep education problems, the data suggest, don’t magically disappear once students disappear behind ivy-covered walls.

In between dispensing advice on breast-feeding and immunizations, doctors will tell parents to read aloud to their infants from birth, under a new policy that the American Academy of Pediatrics will announce on Tuesday.
With the increased recognition that an important part of brain development occurs within the first three years of a child’s life, and that reading to children enhances vocabulary and other important communication skills, the group, which represents 62,000 pediatricians across the country, is asking its members to become powerful advocates for reading aloud, every time a baby visits the doctor.

Why wouldn't creationists try to save the earth they believe God created?
Creationists believe we have a responsibility to be, “good stewards of the earth God created, protecting both planet and people from preventable destruction.” Yet when asked about climate change and if mankind should do what we can to prevent it, Elizabeth Mitchell of the creationist group Answers in Genesis (AiG) says the answer is “no.”

A study conducted in six European countries reveals that children who have strict parents are more likely to smoke cannabis, as well as use tobacco and alcohol. The team, led by the European Institute of Studies on Prevention, observed the relationships between parents and their children in Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the U.K., Slovenia and Portugal to determine what parenting style best prevents drug usage.

The less education the young women have the higher the probability that they became a mom before they got married. Conversely, the married moms of that generation probably have a college degree. “It is now unusual for non-college graduates who have children in their teens and 20s to have all of them within marriage,” says Andrew Cherlin, one of the authors of the study “Changing Fertility Regimes and the Transition to Adulthood: Evidence from a Recent Cohort.”