Archive for September, 2011
Body Shop founder’s legacy: laws to protect kids
By Tom Miles GENEVA | Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:10am EDT GENEVA (Reuters) – Four years after her death, a campaign sparked by Body Shop founder Anita Roddick has had surprising success in getting governments to agree to toughen up child protection laws, the campaign’s manager Christopher Davis said in an interview. The “Stop Sex [...]
Piece by piece, Afghanistan reclaims its history
By Sanjeev Miglani KABUL | Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:47pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) – While everyone else is worrying about Afghanistan’s future, a dedicated band of men and women is gathering up its past, hoping that a growing museum collection will show the world Afghan culture is more sophisticated than the tide of news reports [...]
Americans opposed to gay marriage dwindle: survey
CHICAGO | Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:52pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly half of Americans support same-sex marriage and the proportion who are accepting of homosexuality is increasing, University of Chicago researchers said on Wednesday. The results show a clear “trend toward greater tolerance regarding homosexuality,” said Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center [...]
Book Talk: Tribal areas come alive in 80-year-old’s debut
By Tony Tharakan NEW DELHI | Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:42am EDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) – It took more than three decades for Pakistan’s Jamil Ahmad to get published. The first draft of his musings on life in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan was written in the 1970s — and then forgotten. In [...]
Go Daddy Teen Technology & Multimedia Center Fights Cyberbullying
Scottsdale Boys Girls Clubs Receive $200K Donation for Anti-Cyberbullying Curriculum SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Go Daddy has launched a new and powerful tool in the fight against cyberbullies. Today, Go Daddy and the Boys Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale, Ariz., joined together to officially dedicate the Go Daddy Teen Technology Multimedia Center. “We want to help teach [...]
