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- Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too
Jason DeParle has a long article in The New York Times on how single motherhood is expanding in the American middle class and bringing financial troubles along with it. He focuses on two friends who work together at a daycare center: “They are both friendly white women fro... - Caring about family planning does not make you a slut, according to Melinda Gates
Contraception: It saves lives and it’s not slutty. Any questions? (Photo: Gates Foundation) Melinda Gates will celebrate World Population Day by avoiding saying the word “population,” and at the same time doing more to address population-related challenges than... - 17-year-old Kiwi shames world leaders into action at Rio
Twenty years ago, a 12-year-old rocked the Earth Summit in Rio with a plea to world leaders to get serious about saving the planet. Her name was Severn Suzuki, and today, she hands the torch to another young ‘un, Brittany Trilford, 17 , who will address the leaders of 140 nation... - Philadelphia invests in fresh food to fight obesity – but will it work?
Photo (of a store in NYC) by sodapop on Flickr. Thirty-two-point-six percent of the residents of Philadelphia are obese — a staggering figure, and a higher percentage than any other large city in America. To address the issue, the city has committed $900,000 to a program t... - Did you say ‘sea-level rise’? You liberal.
Photo of Beijing smog by jaaron on Flickr. Last week, the Chinese government demanded that foreign embassies stop reporting independent air pollution measurements . The U.S. Embassy in Beijing, for example, has a monitor on its roof that automatically tweets information about th...
