I am a Lymphoedema Sister

Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift ...

Partners not pledges needed to fight HIV

case about whether the U.S. government can require organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition of funding for their international HIV/AIDS work. As those on the ground who work in programs trying to stop the spread of HIV ...

Dubais child labor complicity

To ensure that gold businesses in Dubai respect and protect rights, due diligence procedures should be made mandatory and include measures to check for child ...

Inspiring greatness from black graduates

Although the vast majority of black children complete high school, most do not complete college. Many first-generation college students have fewer financial, family and community resources to persist through the more challenging aspects of college, such as dealing with financial obligations, meeting academic requirements and finding opportunities for postbaccalaureate ...

Whos stealing government flowers

Not so on federal land. The flowers in Washington’s many parks are government property and the feds take just as dim a view of that as trying to drive off in an F-16. (The irony is that when it comes time to replace, say, the tulips, the National Park Service will give away the bulbs to people passing by because it’s cheaper to buy new ones each spring rather than store the old bulbs ...