| Modern India Still Prays for Boys
Standing in front of his small brick home, in a courtyard where the dirt has been packed down by generations of barefoot children, the middle-aged mustard farmer doesn't bother to hide his exhaustion. "Only someone who has been through something like this can understand the size of my catastrophe," said Sukhpal Singh Tomar. For years, he has struggled to find some reason for his suffering, but has come up with little. He shrugged: "It must be my karma." .
No reason to fear this Cujo
Walking by the dog dishes was just too hard, and Evangelist McKinney finally accepted she had to put them away. Two months had passed since Cujo, the Hanover Park family's long-haired Chihuahua, was stolen from their car while they were doing their weekly charity work on Chicago's South Side. Perhaps the daily reminders of Cujo weren't healthy for 8-year-old Electa, still prone to crying spells. Or Cujo's partner-in-crime, Michelle the pit bull, sluggish since the disappearance. "I prayed and tried to be strong for my daughter," McKinney said. "But people told me horror stories of little animals being used as bait in dog fights. I didn't know if we'd ever see him again." Then came that glorious call Tuesday. Police said they had tracked down the dognapper, who still had the healthy, if a little unkempt, Cujo.
How What And How Much We Eat (And Drink) Affects Our Risk Of Cancer
A healthy diet and lifestyle protect against a wide range of diseases, and new research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 2008 Annual Meeting, April 12-16, shows that cancer is no exception. Researchers demonstrate how excessive alcohol drinking could lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, how consuming too many calories may increase one's risk formelanoma, and why with folic acid, timing is everything for colon cancer prevention.
Alcohol consumption and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: Abstract 4168
One of the largest studies of its kind has found that alcohol is a substantial risk factor for development of the most common type of breast cancer the 70 percent of tumors that are classified as positive for both the estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER+/PR+).
Pyramid pool opens Thursday--jump in!
The wait is finally over — St. Marys first-ever indoor public pool opens this Thursday morning.At 6:30 a.m. the pool will open to the public, with lane swimming until 9 a.m. There will not be a grand opening event until the official grand opening of the Pyramid Centre on May 31.It will be a busy day for the new pool Thursday. After the lane swim there will be a water fitness class from 9 to 9:45 a.m. DCVI Phys-Ed students will have an aquatics class from 10:10 to 11:25 a.m., and then another lane swim will take place between 11:30 and 1 p.m.There will be a special open swim for families from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in honour of Turn Off the Screens Week, which encourages children to be more active (in future weeks, swimming lessons will take place in this time slot). Another Aquafit class runs from 7 to 7:45 p.m., and a lane swim will finish the day from 7:45 to 10 p.m.
Bodies bring people together
More than 45 people gathered to celebrate and love being in their own skin last night.
The Women's Studies Department and Southwest Institute for Research on Women held a "Love Your Body" event in the conference of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Annex.
"'Love Your Body' is to help celebrate and love yourself in your own skin," said Katy Baker, a health and sexuality intern at the Women's Resource center. "It's about being comfortable with who you are and in order to do that we have various activities and discussions set up."
A panel discussion focused on how sexism and other pressures from society can lead people, specifically women, to have issues with their bodies.
"I think that everyone, both female and male, feel pressure at some point from society about their body image," said Ayisha Al-Sayyad, a graduate student in women's studies and a panelist who has done research in the area of body image and eating disorders in the lesbian community.
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