 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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65 MILLION GIRLS KEPT OUT OF SCHOOL.(FRONT)
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Byline: Naomi Koppel Associated Press
GENEVA -- Some 65 million girls worldwide are kept out of school, increasing the risks that they will suffer from extreme poverty, die in childbirth or from AIDS and pass those dangers on to future generations, the U.N. children's fund said today.
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said investment in education was the best way to close the gender gap.
"We believe that the failure to invest in girls' education puts in jeopardy more development goals than any other single action that could take place," she told The Associated ...
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