Archive for August, 2011
x2VOL Video Contest to Award Scholarships for Videos About Importance of Community Service
Two-minute Video on Volunteerism Could Win $1,000 Scholarship DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–High school students can win a $1,000 scholarship for creating a short video explaining why community service is important. The x2VOL Video Contest, sponsored by Texas-based intelliVOL—which developed the x2VOL volunteer tracking and reporting system for high schools—runs through September 30, 2011. A $1,000 and two [...]
Is chocolate good for your heart? It depends
By Ben Hirschler PARIS | Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:14am EDT PARIS (Reuters) – Chocolate may be good for the heart but cardiologists are not giving you a license to indulge. New research presented at Europe’s biggest medical meeting Monday suggested chocolate consumption might be associated with a one third reduction in the risk of [...]
You don’t get older, you get better — really
By Elaine Lies TOKYO | Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:02am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Jokes about creaky knees, thinning hair and spreading — or vanishing — waistlines have long been an inevitable, if unwelcome, part of watching the birthdays pile up. But it shouldn’t be that way, argues Wendy Lustbader, who maintains that youth, with [...]
Rio cartoonist inspires Arab rebellions from afar
By Stuart Grudgings RIO DE JANEIRO | Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:05pm EDT RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – His cartoons are edgy, bold, and a thorn in the side of the Arab world’s tottering authoritarians — a gift to protesters from the unlikely setting of an apartment in beach-side Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Latuff, a [...]
Children’s Book About Dieting Causing Controversy
It’s not due in bookstores until October, but Paul Kramer’s book, “Maggie Goes On a Diet” is already making headlines. The already-controversial book, about an overweight 14-year-old girl who goes on a diet and has a life transformation, has some parents in an uproar and calling for a boycott on a book that they think [...]
