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Researchers say a new study should help ease the minds parents of premature babies when it comes to how well their children will perform in school. The report, published in JAMA Pediatrics, finds that babies born early often catch up to their peers academically. About 10 percent of babies in the U.S. are born prematurely — before 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We know a lot about the medical and clinical outcomes [of premature babies] and we know some about short-term educational outcomes, but what we didn’t know is how the babies do once they get further out into elementary school and middle school,” the study’s first author Dr. Craig Garfield, associate professor of pediatrics and of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told CBS News. The study found that two-thirds of babies born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for 옥천출장안마 kindergarten on time. The researchers were surprised to see that nearly 2 percent of these extreme preemies even achieved gifted status in school.  Though extremely premature babies often scored low on standardized tests, preterm infants born 25 weeks or later performed only slightly lower than full-term infants. For babies born after 28 weeks, the differences in test scores were negligible. For the study, the researchers analyzed data on more than 1.3 million babies...

(AP) BEIRUT – Armed Shiite clansmen in Lebanon said Wednesday they had captured more than 20 Syrians and will hold them until one of their relatives seized by rebels inside Syria is freed. The tensions were a stark reminder of how easily Syria’s civil war could spill over to neighboring states. In Geneva, a U.N. investigation said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen were responsible for war crimes during a May bloodbath in the village of Houla that killed more than 100 civilians, nearly half of them children. It also said rebels were blamed for war crimes in at least three other killings. The report by the U.N. Human Rights Council said the scale of the Houla carnage indicated “involvement at the highest levels” of Syria’s military and government. It is first time the U.N. has described events in Syria’s civil war as war crimes and could be used in possible future prosecution against Assad or others. The council also said the conflict is moving in increasingly “brutal” directions on both sides. Hotel used by U.N. observers rocked by explosion in Damascus, Syria’s capital cityPentagon: Iran training militiamen for AssadU.S. lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PM More in After the Arab Spring As the fighting deepens, so do the fears of it triggering unrest in fragile Lebanon, which is deeply divided between supporters and opponents of President Bashar...

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – Syrian rebels claim to have shot down a warplane and captured its pilot Monday — a rare but significant event, if proven true, for the lightly armed fighters that would show their increasing ability to combat air attacks from President Bashar Assad’s forces. The Syrian government denies the rebels’ claim, saying the warplane experienced malfunctions and the pilot was forced to eject. Earlier Monday, activists released a video which they said shows a government Soviet-made MiG warplane catching fire after it apparently was hit by ground fire over Deir el-Zour province. The warplane appears to spiral into a ball of flames. It was impossibly to independently verify the video. Rebels carve out large enclave in north SyriaVideo: Clinton in Turkey for talks on SyriaU.S. imposes new Syria sanctions; U.K. boosts aidSyrian gov’t forces appear to gain upper hand in battle for Aleppo SANA, Syria’s state news agency, said the plane was on a training mission when a “technical failure occurred” and the pilot had to eject. It added that a search was under way to find the pilot. Another video issued by Syrian rebels and shown on the pan-Arab network Al-Arabiya purports to show the captured pilot. The video also could not be independently confirmed. In the video, a man identifies himself as the pilot as he is surrounded by three armed men. He says he...

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – Syrian rebels claim to have shot down a warplane and captured its pilot Monday — a rare but significant event, if proven true, for the lightly armed fighters that would show their increasing ability to combat air attacks from President Bashar Assad’s forces. The Syrian government denies the rebels’ claim, saying the warplane experienced malfunctions and the pilot was forced to eject. Earlier Monday, activists released a video which they said shows a government Soviet-made MiG warplane catching fire after it apparently was hit by ground fire over Deir el-Zour province. The warplane appears to spiral into a ball of flames. It was impossibly to independently verify the video. Rebels carve out large enclave in north SyriaVideo: Clinton in Turkey for talks on SyriaU.S. imposes new Syria sanctions; U.K. boosts aidSyrian gov’t forces appear to gain upper hand in battle for Aleppo SANA, Syria’s state news agency, said the plane was on a training mission when a “technical failure occurred” and the pilot had to eject. It added that a search was under way to find the pilot. Another video issued by Syrian rebels and shown on the pan-Arab network Al-Arabiya purports to show the captured pilot. The video also could not be independently confirmed. In the video, a man identifies himself as the pilot as he is surrounded by three armed men. He says he...