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Anna Rothschild has been out of the country one time. She got in a van with her soccer team and endured a nine-hour drive over the Canadian border to Ottawa. The team played two games, got back in the van and returned home.
Soccer is again taking Rothschild out of the country. This time, she's a member of the North Jersey All-Stars, a team that will play five games in Brazil during the next 11 days. Rothschild, who will be a junior midfielder for River Dell this season, is one of 18 players on the team.
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BASKETBALL
UConn players among U-19 finalists: UConn rising sophomores Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley, Connecticut incoming freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, UConn commits Moriah Jefferson, Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck and recruiting target Diamond DeShields were among the 15 players named as finalists for the U.S. Under-19 national team on Wednesday. The 15 finalists and coaching staff, led by former UConn star and current Hartford head coach Jen Rizzotti, will reconvene for a training camp from June 1-5 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., as part of the ESPN RISE Girls Showcase. The training camp will conclude with a June 5 game against Brazil and it will be televised on ESPNU.
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The Milwaukee King girls track and field team used a balanced attack to take first place Monday in the Division 1 Homestead regional.
The Generals recorded 155.50 points and runner-up Nicolet had 127. Homestead was third (121.50).
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Topics include "Street Children in Mongolia," "Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone," "Child Refugees in Tanzania," "Indigenous Children in Australia," "ChUd Labor in Brazil," "Poverty in America," "Landmines in Cambodia," "AIDS in the Caribbean," and "Girls' Education in India.
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The Milwaukee King girls track and field team used a balanced attack to take first place Monday in the Division 1 Homestead regional.
The Generals recorded 155.50 points and runner-up Nicolet had 127. Homestead was third (121.50).
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An ex-U.S. diplomat who admitted taping his sexual encounters with teenage girls while stationed in Brazil and the Congo was sentenced Friday to 20 years, the maximum possible prison term.
Gons G. Nachman, 42, had sought leniency, claiming among other things that cultural differences in those countries made sex with teenage girls more acceptable.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A Brazilian judge clamped a curfew on a small Amazon River town Saturday after residents tried to lynch a man who confessed he killed two girls.
On Friday, a mob of about 500 people tried to block a highway where the suspect was expected to pass on his return to jail, said Para state police Maj. Paulo Barato.
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NEW DELHI, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- India must urgently tackle its "vanishing" girl population as the nation awaits the birth of the world's seven billionth baby, says child rights organisation Plan International.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110711/DC32131 )
...." With a population bigger than that of Brazil, it has just 899 girls for every 1,000 boys. The s...
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A former U.S. diplomat pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography in a case that also included allegations that he pressured visa applicants in Brazil for sex.
Gons Gutierrez Nachman, 42, admitted during a plea hearing in U.S. District Court that he had sex with 14- to 17-year-old girls while serving as a consular officer in Brazil and Congo, and that he documented the encounters in pictures and videos.
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Winning the 100-meter dash is one thing, but shattering a Milwaukee City Conference record that had stood for 17 years was beyond the wildest dreams of Vincent freshman Charde Mayne.
Mayne and King's Laquita Brazil in the triple-jump provided the highlight reel for the girls side of the meet, both shattering longstanding city records. No meet records were broken on the boys side, but King distance runner Joe Stilin and Marshall sprinter Quentin Luttrell provided the individual highlights.