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Animals in Myanmar Need Help
Published May 9, 2008 - 10:17:02 AM
Cyclone Nargis has devastated Myanmar and, according to state media, has killed 22,980 and left 42,119 missing. United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes said the death toll could rise "very significantly" as food shortages and disease set in. Media reports estimate that the death toll may reach more than 100,000 people. IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) is standing ready with a team to help animals in need, however the visa process is expected to take a week or more.
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Charity Navigator's Tips for Helping the Victims of the Myanmar Cyclone
Published May 9, 2008 - 7:31:10 AM
Charity Navigator, the nation's largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities, offers the following tips to ensure cyclone relief contributions are well-spent.
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Health: Review Determines Most Effective Emergency Contraception Method
Published May 9, 2008 - 7:27:08 AM
A new review has found that the hormonal pill mifepristone is the most effective emergency contraception method to prevent unwanted pregnancy. In the United States, however, the drug has not gained government approval for this use.
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Letter Carriers Fight Hunger on May 10
Published May 9, 2008 - 7:08:39 AM
The U.S. Postal Service is proud to support the annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) National Food Drive. Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities across America will join forces to help stamp out hunger on Saturday, May 10. Postal employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands will collect non-perishable food items and deliver them to local community food banks, pantries, and shelters across the country. This food drive is the nation's largest annual single-day food drive.
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Salary.com Reports Moms in U.S. Would Earn $116,805 while Moms in Canada Would Earn $126,593
Published May 9, 2008 - 7:05:10 AM
Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY), a leading provider of on-demand compensation and talent management solutions, announced today the results of its annual Mom Salary Survey. Salary.com has revised the calculation to reflect the impact of company size on mom's compensation. For 2008, Salary.com determined that the time mothers spend performing the 10 most popular "Mom job functions" would equate to an annual cash compensation of $116,805 for a Stay-at-Home Mom and $68,405 for a Working Mom, down from last years calculations of $138,094 and $85,938.
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Obesity Linked to Increased Risk for Dementia
Published May 8, 2008 - 9:42:30 AM
Obesity may increase adults' risk for having dementia, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their analysis of published obesity and dementia prospective follow-up studies over the past two decades shows a consistent relationship between the two diseases. The results are published by The International Association for the Study of Obesity in the May, 2008 issue of Obesity Reviews.
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Study Finds Connection Between Mental Fitness and Multi-Lingualism
Published May 8, 2008 - 9:32:46 AM
Children who speak a second or third language may have an unexpected advantage later in life, a new Tel Aviv University study has found. Knowing and speaking many languages may protect the brain against the effects of aging.
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Using art to inspire action on the environment -- new UN campaign
Published May 8, 2008 - 9:18:28 AM
Art can be a catalyst for environmental action – that's the message today from a United Nations seminar and exhibit which are bringing together artists from around the world.
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Green Earth Travel to Steer Clients Away From Island Until the 'Needless Suffering of Animals' at Veterinary School Ends
Published May 8, 2008 - 9:16:31 AM
PETA's recently announced travel boycott of St. Kitts over the needless mutilation and killing of healthy sheep, donkeys, and goats at the island's Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine is under discussion at travel agencies around the globe. While some agencies are planning to quietly steer travelers to other destinations, Washington, D.C.-based Green Earth Travel has publicly announced that it will encourage its clients not to visit St. Kitts until the veterinary school ends its cruel and deadly surgical procedures on animals. PETA has been urging Ross to join other veterinary schools and use only modern, humane teaching methods. Green Earth's decision comes on the heels of Las Vegas-based high-end travel agency Holiday Systems International's refusal to book holidays to St. Kitts for its more than 300,000 clients.
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'Mapping Decline' Maps Out Urban Decay and Depopulation of Saint Louis
Published May 8, 2008 - 7:47:11 AM
Sixty years ago St. Louis was a thriving city with a population of almost a million. These days fewer than 300,000 people call The Gateway City home.
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New Edition of Nonprofit Almanac Offers Detailed Portrait of an Expanding Sector
Published May 8, 2008 - 7:45:49 AM
The nonprofit sector's role in the economy has expanded by most key measures since 1998. It employs more people, draws in more revenue, and contributes more to the gross domestic product than it did a decade ago.
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Pregnant women face hostile behavior when applying for jobs
Published May 8, 2008 - 7:41:45 AM
Pregnant women may still face judgment and obstacles to getting jobs, shows two recent studies by George Mason University and Rice University professors.
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Mental disorders cost society billions in unearned income
Published May 8, 2008 - 7:36:19 AM
Major mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually in lost earnings alone, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study was published in the May 2008 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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The Political Power of Sex Exposed in International Museum of Women's Global Online Exhibition
Published May 8, 2008 - 7:32:46 AM
The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum, confronts provocative stereotypes about women, sex and power in the global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics in the month of May. Launched on March 8, the cutting-edge multimedia exhibition runs until December 31 in four languages--Arabic, English, French and Spanish at www.imow.org.
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Report: Abused woman see danger in family courts, that hand custody to their abuser 37 percent of the time
Full story: Women's E News
The photographs of Joachim Ladefoged explore the weird world of bodybuilding
Full story: The Independent UK
Artificial turf: Health hazard?
Full story: USA Today
Wanted: Active, Eco-Minded Individual to Better Our Beaches
Published May 7, 2008 - 8:54:22 AM
Is your desk job feeling a little 'blah'? Are you dreaming about surfing a great swell instead of surfing the Internet? Want to spend some of your vacation days helping the beach instead of just sitting on it? If you are up for exciting new challenges and want to help maintain the health of our beautiful beaches and coastlines, then this is the summer dream job for you!
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More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
Published May 7, 2008 - 7:27:06 AM
Unwanted childbearing is a greater demographic force than the desire for large families, and may have been for centuries, suggests Robert Engelman, Vice President at the Worldwatch Institute, in his new book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want. Expanding the capacity of all women to choose when to bear children is thus the surest route to achieving an environmentally sustainable population.
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Many Increased Risks of Death From Smoking Reduced Within Years After Quitting
Published May 7, 2008 - 7:17:09 AM
Women who quit smoking significantly reduce their risk of death from coronary heart disease within 5 years and have about a 20 percent lower risk of death from smoking-related cancers within that time period, according to a study in the May 7 issue of JAMA.
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