Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.
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1948
How the events of that fateful year shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades to come.
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Lessons From an Unending Conflict
After three decades of wars and stalemates, Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic Armenian control seemingly overnight.
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The Sunday Read: ‘The Vanishing Family: Life in the Shadow of a Cruel Genetic Mutation’
They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a terrible genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age. This is the story of what it’s like to live with those odds.
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A Student at Saint Ann’s Committed Suicide. Was the School to Blame?
An eighth grader was asked to leave Saint Ann’s, a prestigious private school in Brooklyn. Three months later, he ended his life. Now his parents are suing the school.