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“We are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

While the ACLU fights the good fight regarding Afghan and Iraq prisoner abuse, other things are happening in Afghanistan. Those concerned with human rights must turn their attention to events of a different but equally serious nature. (more…)

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Louisa May Alcott

(1832 – 1888)

Alcott published her first story on this date.

[A prolific author of books for American girls, Louisa May Alcott is best remembered for Little Women…

…In 1879, Alcott was the first woman to register in Concord when Massachusetts gave women school, tax and bond suffrage. Eventually she persuaded her publisher to publish Harriett Hanson Robinson’s Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement in 1881. In her final novel, Jo’s Boys (1886), Alcott made arguments for women’s rights and other reforms. She said, “I can remember when anti-slavery was in just the same state that suffrage is now, and take more pride in the very small help we Alcotts could give than in all the books I ever wrote…” ]

http://greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=8

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Created by the Woman’s Hall of Fame’r,  Joan Ganz Cooney, in 1964, the anniversary of Sesame Street’s 1969 TV debut is today, November, 10th. Happy day, folks! Thank you, Ms. Cooney, for your amazing contribution to education!

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Nestles, Yili and the Chinese government’s progress on the melamine scandal. Another child kets kidney stones. Tons of animal feed are destroyed. (more…)

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If you haven’t been there yet today, check out the Confluence. All the regular bloggers there a writing a personal “Voting Strategy” and a synopsis how they got to their personal decisions. (more…)

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Everlasting Distributors Inc. Issues a Nationwide Recall of Fresh and Crispy Jacobina Biscuits Because of Possible Health Risks

Contact:
Everlasting Distributors Inc.
201-823-0800 (more…)

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I hope the reporter in this first article has only committed a journalistic fuzzy. I just don’t want to think the world is only just now catching this wave. (more…)

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Does this happen because we live longer? Because we have babies? Or, because we are women?

What Newcom and Swedish said: (more…)

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Taiwan

Taiwan bans China protein powder due to melamine

Posted by chinaview on October 30, 2008

Reuters, Wed Oct 29, 2008-

[TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has banned protein powder from China after tests found contamination, adding to a list of Chinese products that the island has halted amid a tainted milk powder scandal, local media said on Wednesday….]

http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/taiwan-bans-china-protein-powder-due-to-melamine/

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More news on melamine: (more…)

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