RADIO STATION SEEKS TO EMPOWER PALESTINIAN WOMEN
Palestinian women are hoping to improve their lives by using the air waves. A group of women in the West Bank this month launched one of the first all-women’s radio […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
PRODUCE MORE FOOD, NATURALLY
Produce More Food, Naturally – IPS ipsnews.net. For the full article: IPS News
LAKE MICHIGAN SHIPWRECK FOUND AFTER 112 YEARS
A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel […]
GROWING LUNGS IN A LAB: RESEARCHERS MOVE CLOSER TO GOAL
Lung studies: Major strides in replicating the organ in the lab – latimes.com. For the full article: Los Angeles Times
THE TEENAGER WHO MAKES JEWELRY FROM BULLETS
Still a teenager, Liberian Lovetta Conto makes jewelry that is worn by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry. But Conto, 17, is no pampered Hollywood fashionista. She grew […]
STEM CELLS REVERSE BLINDNESS CAUSED BY BURNS
Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells […]
NY EXHIBIT IMAGINES UTOPIAN, GREEN CITIES IN 2030
In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on […]
TOP 10 BEACHES IN TURKEY
Forget Turkey’s teeming resorts. Here are 10 crowd-free beaches, from hidden bays to pristine secluded coves. If a summer holiday in Turkey makes you think of crowded beaches and heaving […]
UK HEALTH SYSTEM IS TOP ON ‘EFFICIENCY’, SAYS REPORT
The UK’s health care system is the most efficient, says a study of seven industrialised countries. The Commonwealth Fund report looked at five areas of performance – quality, efficiency, access […]
GLASTONBURY GATES OPEN TO FESTIVAL GOERS
Thousands of music lovers have started arriving for this year’s Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
