Thursday,  October 11, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 86 • 39 of 45 •  Other Editions

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the results may be shared.
• Without public trust, people may not be as willing to allow scientists to study their genetic information, key to learning to better fight disease, the report warns.
• "If this issue is left unaddressed, we could all feel the effects," said Dr. Amy Gutmann, who chairs the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
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UNICEF hopes new school brings healing to traumatized Syrian refugee children in Jordan camp

• ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) -- For many Syrian children traumatized and driven from their homes by their country's civil war, the opportunity to head back to school -- even if it's in a dusty, wind-swept refugee camp -- is a chance to return to a semblance of normalcy.
• The children have a lot to try to overcome. Many have had relatives killed. They have seen their neighborhoods destroyed by bombings as the regime of President Bashar Assad battles rebels who have been trying for 19 months to topple him. They have endured as they and their families fled across the border into an unknown future in Jordan.
• "Bashar shelled us and my cousin died. I want Assad to go away, so I can go back to Syria," said Safa, a 13-year-old who was among 2,300 children who were able to resume their studies in this tent city near Jordan's border with Syria.
• "They started this school to try to help us forget what has been happening, but that's hard. Still, I'm happier now that I can study again," said the petite girl in a black headscarf at the beginning of her Arabic grammar class.
• The start of school in the Zaatari refugee camp is a step in international efforts to help Jordan deal with what has become an overwhelming wave of refugees from the Syria conflict. More than 200,000 Syrians who fled the civil war are now in Jordan, their numbers growing daily, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
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Insurance giant, women's home wage public battle in Ohio over historic property

• CINCINNATI (AP) -- As Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic battled for the title at the Western & Southern Open north of Cincinnati, a small plane buzzed over

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