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...Urlesque managing editor Kelly Reeves says they took their cue from commentators who were tired of feline humor and cooked up the online holiday as a way to provide relief. They've gotten some big-name websites on board, including NPR, Best Week Ever and PetSugar. But Reeves says Urlesque's ban has also awoken a vocal feline-defense movement. The Web's leading distributor of cat humor, ICanHazCheeseburger, even made a video to rally defenders to the feline cause...
...hasn’t shown any type of inexperience, she really has jumped on the field as a freshman. We’re really excited to have her on the forward line.”UC Davis continued to fight for its opportunities, finally getting on the board with under eight minutes to play. Ellre Ancheta fed the ball to Lindsey Valadez off a penalty corner, and Valadez beat Crimson keeper Cynthia Tassapoulous to make the score 4-1. Tassapoulous had five saves on the evening, four of which came in the second half, which saw the Aggies take...
...He’s gotten off to a hot start, and that’s what our team needs right now to get wins,” co-captain Brian Grimm said.“Andre is a notoriously slow starter, so to get him on the board early is fantastic,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “We know he always comes good in October, but this will be a huge boost for him.”The first half of the Crimson’s opening match against Stony Brook was a struggle...
Potter's moment of decision came one evening earlier this year when he was watching MSNBC's Chris Matthews talk about how "the cosmos has shifted" this time around, that the health-insurance industry was at the negotiating table and on board with reform. Potter thought to himself, "Oh, jeez, Chris. Give me a break." Potter, who retired from Cigna in May 2008 after he became disillusioned with the for-profit health-insurance industry, decided to end his silence. (Potter's conversion was prompted in part by the 2007 case of 17-year-old Natalie Sarkisyan, who died shortly after...
...tourism, whether targeting children or adults, creates huge monetary incentives for human traffickers, according to Siddharth Kara, a board member of the Washington-based NGO Free the Slaves and author of the 2008 book Sex Trafficking. Even within the exploding slavery industry, which according to Kara generated $152.3 billion in revenues in 2007, trafficked sex workers are by far the most profitable of slaves - although they constitute only 4.2% of the world's slave population, trafficked sex workers contribute 39.1% of slaveholders' profits. Destination countries often turn a blind eye to sex tourism because of these enormous revenues. The International...