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The Columbia Training School - pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside - has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi.If some of those girls and their advocates are to be believed, it is also a cruel and frightening place.The school has been sued twice in the past four years. One suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, which the state settled in 2005, claimed detainees were thrown naked in to
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There a great, bloody shark war going on in Western Australia right now. After six deaths in two years鈥攎aking Western Australia the deadliest place on earth for shark attacks鈥攖he state has ratcheted up its side of the
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