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Increasing Salaries So Teachers Don't Have To Become Principals

Teachers across the country are choosing to leave the classroom for better pay as school administrators, where they can sometimes double their salaries.

Last year, Munirah Small quit her job as a customer service representative to start a cake business. She had lots of repeat customers, but after accounting for her expenses, she found she didn't have much money left over â certainly not enough to pay herself a regular salary. So she applied to Break Fast and Launch to figure out what she could be doing better.

Tech Gurus Teach Food Entrepreneurs The Recipe For Success

The city of San Antonio, Texas, is pairing budding food businesses with mentors from its thriving tech industry. We follow one cake maker through the process — and watch her revamp her business.

Yu Huan, 22, was sentenced in February to life in prison in the Liaocheng Intermediate People's Court in China's Shandong Province. He stabbed a debt collector, who later died of his wounds.

A Debt Collector Is Killed In China, Triggering Debate Over Right To Self-Defense

"China's law does not really encourage people to defend themselves, because that would be encouraging them to rise up and resist [authority]," a Chinese lawyer noted.

American Graduate Student Sentenced To Prison In Iran

Princeton University says Xiyue Wang was doing research for his PhD. He was picked up by Iranian authorities and accused of spying. The U.S. State Department says the charges are fabricated.

News Brief: GOP Health Bill Vote Postponed, Iran Sentences U.S. Citizen

A vote on the Senate's health care bill has been delayed. An American graduate student who disappeared in Iran months ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to an Iranian news agency.

JENNA COLEMAN as Victoria and TOM HUGHES as Albert.

MASTERPIECE: Victoria: Season 2

Airs Sundays, Dec. 16 & 23, 2018 at 9 p.m., Dec. 30 at 9 p.m. & 10 p.m., Jan. 6, 2019 at 8 p.m. & 9 p.m. & Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Yisrael Kristal sitting in his home in Haifa. Israel. Kristal is a Holocaust survivor and the world's oldest man, according to Guinness World Records. He celebrated his long-delayed bar mitzvah this week at the age of 113.

World's Oldest Man Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Late

Two world wars and the Holocaust derailed Yisrael Kristal's bar mitzvah celebration until he turned 113 years old. His family held the ritual for him this week in Israel.

Ming lives in this mud brick home, three miles outside Beijing city limits.

Beijing Mega-Region Plan Aims To Alleviate Poverty, But Some Are Wary

Set to be implemented in 2030, the plan would merge Beijing, the port city of Tianjin and Hebei province into a mega-region to push economic development. Some are skeptical resources will be shifted.

Dinner With A Side Of I Do's: For Restaurants, Proposals Are Good Business

Marriage proposals are pretty routine at America's high-end restaurants. They can lift the mood in the entire dining room, boost tips and create lifelong customers. Unless the answer is "no," that is.

A campus map at San Diego State University, Sept. 24, 2016.

San Diego State Appoints First Woman President In Interim Position

San Diego State University announced the appointment of the first woman president in the college's 120-year history.

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