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...base. But bin Laden and the Taliban leader were never caught. Instead, more than 3000 innocent people were bombed to death. That's more than were killed on September the 11th. President Bush calls this Operation Enduring Freedom. A world away, in New York, this is Rita Lasar and her brother Abe. Abe was killed in the Twin Towers on September the 11th. He might have saved...

...based childcare and schooling. Working anti-social hours has always been part of the job on the railway and women have often had to balance the demands of shift working with being the main carer in the home. However, the need to home school and provide childcare in what would normally constitute school hours meant that some women workers had to shoulder the added...

...based qualifying exam, known colloquially as the ‘quali’. The ‘quali’ classified children’s intelligence at age 11, as something fixed and entire educational futures were decided on the results of just one exam. With the introduction of comprehensive education, this was abolished and now every pupil had access to a post-primary education. This meant that...