With great sadness..Shauna Crockett-Burrows, 1930–2012
This taken from her Newspaper’s website.. Founder of the world’s first positive newspaper passes away It is with great regret that we announce that our founder, Shauna Crockett-Burrows, has passed away. A month short of her 82nd birthday – and having been invited to attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace at the end of May [...]

Pulling children out of Nepal’s prisons
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Pushpa Basnet doesn’t need an alarm clock. Every morning, the sounds of 40 children wake her up in the two-story home she shares with them. As she helps the children dress for school, Basnet might appear to be a housemother of sorts. But the real story is more complicated. All of [...]

Breastfeeding can have a positive impact on children’s vocabulary and reasoning skills
(Reuters) Kids who were breastfed as babies had higher scores on tests of vocabulary and reasoning at age five than those who weren’t breastfed. Breastfeeding seemed to make the biggest difference for babies who were born early and therefore had more catching up to do in their brain development. Though the practice has been tied [...]

Grief-stricken mom found a new family after tsunami
Phuket, Thailand (CNN) — When Southeast Asia was rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2004, Susanne Janson was glued to her television in Stockholm, Sweden. Her two daughters — 14-year-old Eleonor and 12-year-old Josefin — were vacationing in Thailand at the time with her ex-husband and his new family, and she hadn’t heard [...]

Female scientist Natalia Avseenko dives into sea naked in Northern Russia to tame beluga whales
Two whales have been tamed in the Arctic Circle, by  a female scientist who stripped off and went underwater naked. Thirty-six-year-old Natalia Avseenko braved sub-zero temperatures to reach the beluga whales in northern Russia because the species dislike artificial clothing like diving suits. It’s reported that Natalia used meditation techniques to stay underwater at -1.5°C [...]

Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize
Bees play an important role in agriculture, pollinating crops and providing us with the natural sweetener, honey.  Environmental stresses are taking their tolls on the insects, however, and this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement has gone to researcher May Berenbaum, who is studying solutions to the bee crisis. May Berenbaum says that for thousands [...]

Early nutrition has a long-term metabolic impact
Nutrition during the first days or weeks of life may have long-term consequences on health, potentially via a phenomenon known as the metabolic programming effect, according to a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Denver. Metabolic programming is the concept that differences in nutritional experiences at critical periods [...]

Business woman’s success with secret La Decollette bra to prevent cleavage wrinkles
Rachel de Boer finally told some friends a secret she’d kept for years: She slept with stuffed socks sewn between the cups of an old bra to prevent cleavage wrinkles and smooth out her neckline. Three years later, a professionally designed and manufactured version of that same contraption is sold in 150 lingerie shops across [...]

Rebecca Black Donating ‘Friday’ Proceeds to Japan
YouTube singing star Rebecca Black is using her overnight fame for a good cause. The 13-year-old singer, who touched off a nerve with her budget hit, “Friday,” told Us magazine she will donate the profits of her iTunes song to emergency relief efforts in Japan as well as to her school. “I am donating money [...]

CNN Hero – Amy Stokes Unites South African Orphans With Video Mentors
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has left millions of children without parents. To help South African children and teens orphaned by the crisis, New Yorker Amy Stokes founded Infinite Family, a nonprofit organization that connects orphans with video mentors in other countries. Stokes was recently honored as a CNN Hero for her work helping [...]