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b16_days_topToday is International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. (ICWHRD). As of this date, November 29th, 2008, Wikipedia did not yet record this event in English.

This day is a commemoration of activist women who have been defenders of human rights, many of whom have been killed in the line of duty. And, it has been a duty of honor in a worldwide war. (more…)

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Note: PPM means parts per million

Infant Formula

The current maximum standard for the average human’s consumption of melamine in the US is 2.5 parts per million, or ppm. This, of course assumes, that you will not consume your melamine-laced milk, with your possibly laced breakfast cereal and double you intake. The FDA has now set a standard for infants of 1 ppm.

It seems to me that most babies start out at less than a ratio of 1 to 2.5, so I don’t know how we arrived at the decision that this new standard would be acceptable. I guess we should be happy for small favors. (more…)

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Performed this date, November 29th, 1944, the first Blalock-Taussig Shunt on an eleven month old baby girl. (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 29th, is: (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 28th, is: (more…)

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In the midst of all the Thanksgiving preparations cause for another occurred on the 25th of this month. Children raised by a loving foster pair since 2004 were allowed to adopt their children. This Florida ruling may open the door elsewhere: (more…)

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November

This month the seventeen year old  Sacagawea, or Sakakawea, saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, hunted for food to feed men who were tired of dried fish, and voted over where the Lewis and Clark Expedition would winter along the Oregon coast. She had begun her travels at sixteen with her French Canadian husband, Charbonneau, an black slave named York, who despite his efforts and another’s promise, would never be freed, and a gaggle of white men who did not speak her language. (more…)

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b16_days_topEach year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 27th, is: (more…)

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Think you know who gave the first Thanksgiving?

Test what you know against Wikipedia’s LIST below: (more…)

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Since the trace amount of the discovered melamine was less than the designated risk factor, the name of the manufacturer was withheld. However, that same manufacturer had tested previously with no result. (more…)

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