Wild sunflowers all over our land… lovely in the summer
Cord blood donation surges as hospitals launch public collection programs
Last year, the NMDP helped supply nearly 1,200 transplants from cord blood units, up from 1,000 in 2009, for a total of 6,000 since the program began in 2000. Overall, the number of available cord blood units climbed 14 percent in 2011, with greater increases expected as more hospitals sign on.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Plans a Ban on Large Sugared Drinks
A proposal that would take effect as soon as next March is the most ambitious effort yet by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration to combat rising obesity.
A Pioneering Army Sergeant Fights to Keep Her Job
Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King, recently reinstated as head of an elite drill sergeant school, says her male supervisors tried to undermine her authority because she is a woman.
Alabama Women's Prison Inmates Sexually Abused By Guards, Report Says
Corrections officers at the only women’s prison in Alabama regularly sexually harass, abuse and even rape female inmates with few consequences, according to a new report by a civil rights organization.
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UK library stripped in night of books and Twain plaque
Residents who for more than a year campaigned to keep the library open were alerted in the middle of the night that Brent council workers, backed up by police, were stripping the branch of books, furniture, murals painted in the 1930s and the plaque marking the opening in 1900 by Twain. The move follows the council’s failed attempt to clear the library earlier this month, when they were stopped from removing books by protesters.
Senegal Food Shortage Threatens Over 1 Million Children
Hunger in this region is a lurking predator that never quite leaves, and comes back every year to pick off the weakest. Even in a non-crisis year, some 300,000 children die from lack of food across western and central Africa. All it takes is a drought and a failed harvest, and those who are now barely living on one meal a day will starve.
