Virginia's all-women Sweet Briar College holding last commencement
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Virginia’s all-women Sweet Briar College holds its final commencement on Saturday, as school supporters battle to stop it from becoming the latest U.S. women-only school to shut down. The 700-student school in southwest Virginia is scheduled to close because of financial woes amid a changing educational landscape that has made U.S. all-women schools a vanishing breed. Commencement speaker Teresa Tomlinson, the mayor of
Four countries including Russia have blocked a bid to add chrysotile asbestos to a list of dangerous substances subject to export restrictions, participants at a UN meeting in Geneva said Saturday. Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Zimbawe opposed listing the mineral also known as white asbestos, which health experts say causes cancer, on the Rotterdam Convention list, according to groups attending the Geneva meeting that wrapped up Saturday.. The 1998 Rotterdam
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Under the shade of a wooden shack in the western Chadian town of Bagasola, heavily pregnant Zara Gayi sells mangoes and vegetables, hoping to earn enough money to feed her four children. “My husband used to ride boats to Nigeria. In the past, he could earn 100,000 Naira ($500) a month,” she told the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF. Disruptions to trade
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – South Sudan has defended a law limiting the number of foreign aid workers that can work in the country despite concerns from relief groups that the move could have “potentially catastrophic effects” for the millions of people who need help. The law, which is awaiting President Salva Kiir’s signature after being passed on Tuesday, requires non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to limit foreign employees,
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan King Mohammed VI has ordered that laws restricting abortion be loosened, allowing it in the case of rape, incest, danger to the mother’s health or fetal malformation.
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – An outbreak of meningitis with “unprecedented features” is spreading rapidly in Niger, with a tripling of cases in the past two weeks, hundreds of deaths so far this year and vaccines in short supply, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Vaccines against this form of the disease were in short supply and the outbreak was of particular concern because it was affecting more
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Turn any park bench into a DIY gym with this five-move, full-body strength routine. It’s fun and effective, and it tones you all over—the perfect complement to that running or cycling session. Angela Leigh, national manager of Equinox Training Camp, developed these moves exclusively for SELF.
Trying to cut coffee out of your morning? A cup of hot water with fresh lemon juice is an ideal alternative that manynutritionists drink every day — and it’s not just because of its tangy flavor! Here are four compelling reasons to make this quick concoction part of your morning ritual.
You’ve got to eat before you walk onto the alter, but what’s the perfect snack?
