Show Sunday 09/01/13
Mississippi indictment
highlights pitfalls of power for sheriffs
Many American lawmen
believe, in part because of the way the Constitution is written, that
there is no higher power than the office of the sheriff, with even
the President of the United States being penultimate to the badge.
Justice Ginsburg, the
Cheney sisters, and same-sex marriage
In a ceremony at the
Kennedy Center Saturday evening, Justice Ginsburg performed the
wedding of Michael Kaiser, who runs the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, and John Roberts.
Egypt deports
Al-Jazeera English language
Egyptian authorities
say they have deported three members of a TV crew working for the
English-language version of Qatar-based news broadcaster Al-Jazeera,
after they were detained for nearly a week and accused of working
illegally.
Researchers say you
shouldn't wash your chicken
Julia Child did it and,
according to recent studies, so do about 90 percent of people: rinse
their raw birds before cooking.
Does-wine-drinking-protect-against-depression
Enjoying several
glasses of wine each week may not only protect your heart, it may
also help protect your mental health, a new study suggests.
Researchers in Spain
have found that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol especially wine
was linked with a lower risk of depression.
Fast food wage protest:
Is 15 an hour asking too much
Fast-food workers
protested this week for higher pay in cities across the US,
highlighting the economic squeeze that low-wage workers are feeling
during a period of protracted weakness in the labor market.
School virginity test
proposal brings outrage from education officials
A school district in
Indonesia has considered giving a virginity test to female high
school students.
"We are planning a
virginity test for SMA (senior high school) girls and their
equivalent,” H. M. Rasyid, head of the educational office in
Prabumulih, South Sumatra, told Kompas on Aug. 19, according to the
news site Khabar, Southeast Asia.
Obama: Sex Ed for
Kindergartners ‘Is the Right Thing to Do’
The Chicago Public
Schools this year are mandating that the district’s kindergarten
classes include sex education, fulfilling a proposal President Barack
Obama supported in 2003 when he served in the Illinois state senate
and later defended when he ran for president in the 2008 election
cycle.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-sex-ed-kindergartners-right-thing-do#sthash.CmkNYQl7.dpuf
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