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• In Philadelphia, students get a chance to build boats – and launch them
• Eastern Ghouta exodus: As rebel area falls, many take leap into 'unknown'
• Why Facebook must ‘like’ ethical investors
• In Slovakia, children of the Velvet Revolution lead fight to be 'normal'

In Philadelphia, students get a chance to build boats – and launch them Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:36 PM PDT An educator and sailor, Nicholas Pagon was struck by the scenario of middle-school students reading a novel about an ocean voyage in a sailboat. "I make sure at the end of the project that the students launch the boats onto the Schuylkill River," he says in a phone interview.

Eastern Ghouta exodus: As rebel area falls, many take leap into 'unknown' Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:44 PM PDT Three weeks ago, Amer Zeidan saw no way out of eastern Ghouta but death. It was impossible, he said, for civilians to trust a Syrian regime that devoted so much energy to bombing and starving the opposition enclave into submission. Recommended: How well do you understand the conflict in Syria?

Why Facebook must ‘like’ ethical investors Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:17 PM PDT Among those that fled the stock, many equity firms that specialize in ethical investing, such as BetaShares, dropped the company's stock from their portfolios. As the giant of "surveillance capitalism," Facebook had met its match with another giant force: social capitalism. Of course, Facebook is also under scrutiny on other fronts for its breaches of privacy.

In Slovakia, children of the Velvet Revolution lead fight to be 'normal' Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:36 AM PDT Marian Kulich is one of tens of thousands of protesters on the streets of Slovakia in the biggest show of people power since the Velvet Revolution. On Friday afternoon he joined 25,000 protesters in a candlelight vigil in downtown Bratislava, the fourth mass gathering in a row, in a display of discontent that could be a turning point for the region.

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