CDC’s director, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, on polio eradication.
(From CDC)
We are bundling up like these SHETLAND PONIES IN CARDIGANS and heading out.
Thank you, Waldo Jaquith.
From a book of photographs and essays about London by Chicago-based writer and photographer Brian Leli. Explaining the project on his website,...
…I’ll keep on saying it; Senator Bernie Sanders is great!
Infographic by Advocates for Youth.
Inspiring profile in the NY Times about Korean women who were “comfort women” to Japanese soldiers during WWII, forced into sexual slavery for years. The few women still alive are demanding Japanese government recognition for what they endured and have silently protested in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul every week for two decades.
“A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it. What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she’s a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.”
“Time to bring abortion out of the back woods and put it in the hospitals where it belong[s].”