Report: 5 children injured in China school attack

State media reported on Friday, that a man attacked five preschool children with a hammer in east China, before setting himself on fire. The man poured gasoline over himself while holding two children in his arms. Teachers were able to pull the children away from the man. All five children were hospitalized, but will not die. Following this incident, there have been three other attacks similar to this in China. On Thursday, a man attacked 28 children with a knife in east China. Police have arrested a 47 year old suspect. The Chinease officials have are doing many things to ensure saftey. Some schools are now hiring guards to escort students to and from classes.



I think that the man who is attacking all of these school children is deffinitaly mad. What kind of crazy person attacks kids with knifes and hammers. I would be very scared if I were a student going to school in east China right now. However, it is good that the schools are increasing thier security to ensure the childrens saftey. I really hope that police can get a hold of this mad man. Im not really sure that I would even go to school in east China right now. That is a lot of attacks in a short period of time. I would be nervous that my school would be the next target. Overall I think that this crazy killer man needs to be caught and I think that he does not deserve to live anymore after these attacks on innocent children.



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Officials to discuss Census participation

The army of U.S. Census Bureau will be finding out how many doors they will be kocking on to complete the nationwide survey. Census Director Robert Groves will announce how well Americans have responded by mail to this census that comes out once a decade, and how many homes will need to be contacted in order to complete the census. The Census Bureau announced that 72% of all households nationwide, returned the completed census. Midwestern states have the highest participation rates, with Minnesota at 79%. It costs the government 42 cents for each response that comes back in the mail, and costs the government about $57 per household to get the responses in person. The bureau is now hiring an about 870,000 temporary workers to help complete the census.

I think that it is interesting to see the percentage of people that fill the cenus and mail it back in. It doesn't suprise me that Minnesota's return rate is at 79%, because most Minnesotans are pretty resposible with things like that, and truely care. It is a shame tht some people don't take a few minutes out of thier day to fill out the census. It would actually save people money in the long run because it would cost the government less money, and tax the taxpayers less. I can't belive how much effort is put into this once a decade census. It is pretty cool how serious the Census Bureae takes the census , and how they srtrive to have an accurate census. I honestly wish that everyone would just turn in their census, so that the bureae won't have to come after people. That would make things a lot easier for everyone.

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Russia suspends U.S. adoptions

Russia has stoped the adoption of children by American families process until they work out a further agreement. The U.S Embassy in Moscow, Russia says that there is not too much to worry about. John Beyrle, U.S. ambassador to Russia, says , "We're working on this and we really don't think that this will have any long-term effect on the ability of American families to adopt here." This all started when an American family returned their adopted back to Russia, beacause they said that the child was violent and had pyschopathic issues, and that the child was a danger to the family. The Russian child was sent back to Russia, riding solo on the plane. Russian officials want to sign a treaty with Amerians allow monitoring of children after they are brought to the United States.


I think that Russia should let American's adopt the children in Russia still, because they will have a much better life in America, than they would have in Russia. I don't foresee this being a major problem. I think the Russians will let American families adopt again. I don't really think that what that American family did to their Russian child was the right thing to do, however, I don't think that Russia should stop the adoption process because of it. If American families wast to adopt the kids in Russia, they should deal with them, and not send them back. They really should try and work through the adversity and try to make the child better, if it is not what they expected.

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