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...United Nations International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million women are working as sex slaves at any given time. Rather than letting these problems go unacknowledged, increasing focus on liberating women from restrictive environments and educating them even in simple ways, such as basic first aid, will allow a huge percentage of the world’s population to contribute to forming solutions for the world’s greatest challenges. Otherwise, they will continue to be victims of problems such as chronic poverty without being able to effectively take care of themselves...

Author: By Alexandra L. Perkins | Title: Women as Engineers of Change | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...feed their families take-out meals; mothers were likely to skip breakfast and buy restaurant or prepared entrees instead of cooking. "We know that when people eat together as a family, diets of both the parents and the children tend to be better. But often our jobs don't allow us to eat together at home as often as we'd like," says Devine. "This is more common than we expected, and it's not just fast food." (See nine kid foods to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Working Person's Diet: Too Busy to Eat Right | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...opportunity to reach out, what you want to do as an admissions officer is serve the public interest…it also would allow us to answer some of the questions most on people’s minds and try to demystify and demythologize so many urban legends about admissions,” Fitzsimmons told Flyby...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Ask the Gatekeeper! | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...other hand, Rebecca K. Gilmore ’12 said she thought the program was effective. She said it was a great program, especially for those with enough dedication to log in on a weekly basis. Gilmore took Italian through Rosetta Stone because her undergraduate course schedule would not allow her to take any more languages. Though she said she understands why the funding for free access to Rosetta Stone had to be cut, she said that she “would like to be able to think that when things have stabilized, even if it’s after...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Language Learning Software Gets Axed | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...this latest agreement possible. The Fisheries Department has long resisted calls for a ban. This time, though, the available statistics made a moratorium seem at least provisionally necessary, says spokeswoman Nathalie Charbonneau. "We have management and recovery plans in place, whose goal is to create sustainable fisheries that still allow for economic profit. But for the time being, the latest scientific evidence reminds us that if there are no more fish resources, there won't be any economic resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Moves Closer to Banning Bluefin-Tuna Trade | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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