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• Pelosi meets al-Maliki in surprise trip to Iraq
Their revolt was spurred by Democratic tactics in advancing the must-pass measure, as well as their efforts to add money for the unemployed and an expansion of GI education benefits to the bill.
• After quake, 1-child policy causes pain
Nearly 6,900 classrooms collapsed, government officials said Friday, in an admission that highlighted a chronically underfunded education system especially in small towns and compounded the anger of many Chinese over the quake.
• Louisiana teen accused of poisoning teacher
Investigators said the Concordia Education Center student is alleged to have put about three-fourths of a bottle of eye drops into the teacher's drink on May 5.
• U.S. Marine guilty of sexual abuse in Japan
The incident prompted the U.S. military to severely restrict troop movements on Okinawa and elsewhere and conduct an ongoing review of its anti-sexual assault education programs and guidelines.
• Aftershocks spark landslides in China
Education and housing officials, meanwhile, took the rare move of fielding questions online from angry Chinese citizens over the many children who died in the quake.

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