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• Another school has instituted a touching ban. Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, has now banned group hugging because the school principal says that it disrupts the hallways when students form so-called “hug lines.” However, the schools policy doesn’t extend to all contact like Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Va. Read more here.
• Women in Saudi Arabia collected more than 1,100 signatures for their petition to drive recently. It was sent to King Abdullah and cited the lack of religious cause to prohibit women from driving. Read more here.
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