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...network of 151 organizations in 53 countries. Among his innovations is World Toilet Day, this Nov. 19, which is meant to publicize the plight of billions of people who go without toilets and fight the taboo that nearly all cultures have about business in the bathroom. That quiet embarrassment - similar to the hush around sexual practices that once muffled AIDS activism - keeps sanitation out of the world's top health priorities, and ensures that even those who go without toilets suffer in silence. Sim, his fellow activists and George are determined to make their voices heard...
...medicine at University of Virginia, found that taking 120 mg of gingko biloba twice a day did not prevent the development of dementia in a group of 1,545 seniors 75 years and older; there was no difference in rates of dementia among the intervention group and a similar group of 1,524 participants who took identical placebos. This was the largest and longest investigation into the effects of gingko biloba, and the first study to explore whether a supplement could prevent Alzheimer's disease in healthy volunteers. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...MISS: Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz as they present a rare dining experience, serving an elaborate 20-course dinner (with the elaborate price of $1,500) at Per Se in New York City on Nov. 11 (212-823-9450). Similar suppers will follow at Achatz's Alinea and Keller's French Laundry...
...quite as wild in the mid-Atlantic, the Crimson still faced heavy winds throughout the weekend.“On Saturday, it was very windy and wavy, which are conditions we haven’t sailed in at all this year, but they are also conditions very similar to the national venue in San Francisco,” Watson said. “Sunday was windier, and the wind was coming from a strange direction. Wind was blowing holes in the sails, that’s how windy it was.”But consistency was the name...
...start of the tenure movement paralleled similar labor struggles during the late 19th century. Just as steel and auto workers fought against unsafe working conditions and unlivable wages, teachers too demanded protection from parents and administrators who would try to dictate lesson plans or exclude controversial materials like Huck Finn from reading lists. In 1887, nearly 10,000 teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn...