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...rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike," though he later buckled amid a public outcry over the forced feeding of the protesters and agreed to support the 19th Amendment granting women the vote. During World War II, a group of conscientious objectors at Connecticut's Danbury prison staged a 135-day strike against segregated dining. As a result, Danbury became the first federal facility with integrated meals...
...California - a state beset by air pollution and struggling to amend its fuel-efficiency standards in order to stave off the effects of global warming - contained a good portion of the most-polluted counties and cities in America. Other highly polluted areas, such as the tri-state New York-Connecticut-New Jersey region and the Chicago area, also made it into the top 25 most air-polluted places. The charts - categorized by short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and year-round ozone pollution - break down how many people afflicted by illnesses such as asthma and emphysema live...
...often the little things that change your life. For Joanne Goldblum, it was toilet paper. As a social worker in Connecticut, she kept noticing that the families she worked with didn't have any. Eventually a client told her that TP isn't covered by food stamps or any other government-assistance program, so people just improvise. (Fast-food napkins, anyone?) In fact, no hygiene supplies are covered--including diapers...
This is how Goldblum came, five years ago, to start the Diaper Bank (a name, she notes, that sounds less comical--and is easier to raise funds for--than the Toilet Paper Bank). These days, she gives away 200,000 diapers a month in Connecticut, mostly to public-housing authorities, tenants' groups and agencies that work with low-income families...
...Senate banking committee chairman Chris Dodd of Connecticut, facing daunting odds for reelection in 2010 and determined to show his independence from Wall Street, has produced a tough bill that would largely prevent issuers like Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One and American Express from raising rates on customers even when cardholders miss payments or their credit rating tanks. "Americans do not deserve to be pushed down the economic ladder by credit card companies," Dodd said as he rolled out the bill, "It's wrong, it's unfair, and it must...