• My top 10 recipes of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-31 17:47:10
    Follow us I'm firing my OB Does your baby look famous Easy , tasty slow-cooker soup Mobile Apps SECTIONS Getting Pregnant Preconception Info Ovulation Calculator Due Date Calculator Baby Costs Baby Names News BabyCenter Blog Expert Answers Mom Answers Free Stuff Deals All Topics Pregnancy All Pregnancy Info Pregnancy Tools Birth Videos Photos Pregnancy Products Childbirth Class Milestones Pregnancy App News BabyCenter Blog Expert Answers Mom Answers Baby Names Pregnancy Calendar Recipes Birth Announcements Deals for You Baby Pregnancy Topics Baby All Baby Info Baby Tools Milestones Videos Photos Baby Products Baby App News BabyCenter Blog Expert Questions Mom Answers Baby Calendar Recipes Horoscopes Birth Announcements Deals for You Baby Baby Topics Toddler All Toddler Info Toddler Tools

  • Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth

    Updated: 2012-12-31 15:28:15
    Bill Ryerson Interview: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth See: http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/80326/bill-ryerson Transcript: Chris Martenson: Welcome to another Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host, of course, Chris Martenson. And today we welcome Bill Ryerson to the program. Now, I know Bill and have met Bill. And Bill is the founder and president of the Population [...]

  • Philippines president signs law easing access to contraceptives

    Updated: 2012-12-31 15:24:24
    Philippines president signs law easing access to contraceptives See: http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-philippines-law-contraceptives-20121229,0,6905291.story By Kenneth R. Weiss and Sol VanziDecember 29, 2012, 1:18 p.m. MANILA – Philippines President Benigno Aquino III has signed legislation that will provide modern contraceptives to the nation’s poorest people and mandate sex education in public schools, a spokeswoman announced Saturday. Leaders of the [...]

  • The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics

    Updated: 2012-12-31 15:19:59
    The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics See: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/12/19/secret-history-sex-choice-and-catholics When people ask me why Catholics for Choice decided to make a movie, my answer usually starts with a story about a long train ride in the company of a prominent theologian a few years ago. I knew that this gentleman felt uncomfortable with many [...]

  • Big demand for reproductive health options met with inadequate offerings and services

    Updated: 2012-12-31 15:17:14
    Big demand for reproductive health options met with inadequate offerings and services See: http://www.yementimes.com/en/1635/report/1761/Big-demand-for-reproductive-health-options-met-with-inadequate-offerings-and-services.htm There are approximately 2,500 reproductive health centers in various governorates nationwide that are supported by the government. Comparative to private sector healthcare, these services are provided for free or heavily subsidized by the state making them easier to access for the [...]

  • 2012 Photo gallery: Best pics shared by celebrity parents

    Updated: 2012-12-30 23:18:21
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  • 2012: Our favorite famous moms

    Updated: 2012-12-30 18:13:37
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  • What is Matthew McConaughey's new baby's name?

    Updated: 2012-12-30 03:33:32
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  • How to make puffy paint snowmen (craft)

    Updated: 2012-12-28 21:52:08
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  • A New Year's treat: Sparkling raspberry champagne trifles

    Updated: 2012-12-28 21:23:33
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  • Coin sized batteries pose risk to children

    Updated: 2012-12-28 19:13:33
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  • Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (113): Child Soldier

    Updated: 2012-12-28 13:25:14
    (source) More on child soldiers. More iconic images of human rights violations.

  • ICE deports leader of multinational human smuggling network

    Updated: 2012-12-28 00:39:49
    On December 20, 2012 ICE issued a news release that reported on the deportation of Orlando Escobar-Leon, aka Eduardo Morales Esquivel, an illegal alien possessing dual citizenship in Mexico and Guatemala. Escobar-Leon headed an alien smuggling network with 12 other co-conspirators whose identities and other background information were not divulged. Also unreported was the . . . → Read More: ICE deports leader of multinational human smuggling network

  • Where illegal aliens & health care collide

    Updated: 2012-12-27 22:36:41
    Illegal aliens often seek medical care in hospital emergency rooms. So imagine that Jane, a hypothetical illegal alien, went to a Houston, Texas emergency room with something as simple as the flu. The hospital doctors and nurses review her symptoms, maybe observe her overnight, possibly prescribe medicine and release her the next day. The . . . → Read More: Where illegal aliens & health care collide

  • Can the oyster industry survive ocean acidification?

    Updated: 2012-12-26 14:03:29
    Can the oyster industry survive ocean acidification? See: http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.21/can-the-oyster-industry-survive-ocean-acidification/article_view?b_start:int=0 For four frustrating months in 2007, Mark Wiegardt and his wife, Sue Cudd, witnessed something unsettling at their Oregon oyster hatchery: tank bottoms littered with dead baby oysters. Usually, the larvae are grown until they’re three weeks old and a quarter of a millimeter in size [...]

  • Climate Change Causes Forest Die-Off Globally

    Updated: 2012-12-26 14:00:37
    Climate Change Causes Forest Die-Off Globally See: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0909-forests-and-climate.html Already facing an onslaught of threats from logging and conversion for agriculture, forests worldwide are increasingly impacted by the effects of climate change, including drought, heightened fire risk, and disease, putting the ecological services they afford in jeopardy, warns a new paper published in the journal Nature [...]

  • Will Colleges Kick Coal out of Their Stockings?

    Updated: 2012-12-26 13:56:51
    Will Colleges Kick Coal out of Their Stockings? Students across the country are calling for colleges to divest from fossil fuels. But will the schools listen? -By Kate Sheppard and Tim McDonnell http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/12/will-colleges-kick-coal-out-their-stockings Can college students reshape energy politics in the US by reforming their colleges’ endowments? That’s the hope of idealistic students at 189 [...]

  • The mother behind kids’ long-shot legal crusade

    Updated: 2012-12-26 13:53:26
    The mother behind kids’ long-shot legal crusade See: http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/12/19/1   EUGENE, Ore. — For Julia Olson, it all started with “An Inconvenient Truth.” The then-thirtysomething environmental lawyer watched Al Gore’s climate change documentary while eight months pregnant with her second child. By her own admission, she “cried through the whole film” and spent several sleepless [...]

  • Debunking those myths on family planning

    Updated: 2012-12-26 13:47:12
    Debunking those myths on family planning See: http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/Living/Debunking-those-myths-on-family-planning/-/1218/1646890/-/6h6ekz/-/index.html Cancer. Deformed babies. Damaged wombs. These are just some of the fears that many Kenyan women associate with family planning. Fifty countries, Kenya included, look like they might miss the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 deadline, especially those on cutting the mortality rates of young children [...]

  • United Nations bans female genital mutilation

    Updated: 2012-12-26 13:44:10
    United Nations bans female genital mutilation December 20 2012 | Ending Violence against Women | News                See: http://www.unwomen.org/2012/12/united-nations-bans-female-genital-mutilation/ The United Nations General Assembly today passed unanimously a resolution banning the practice of Female Genital Mutilation. This significant milestone towards the ending of harmful practices and violations that constitute serious threat to the health of women [...]

  • Road congestion costs UK £7-8bn a year

    Updated: 2012-12-22 07:59:43
    So, we need more roads. Why doesn’t the Prime Minister say that we need fewer people? BBC report

  • MPs inquiry calls for relationships education

    Updated: 2012-12-20 07:54:46
    A cross-party inquiry into Britain’s high levels of unplanned teenage pregnancy is calling for compulsory relationship classes in schools alongside citizenship. The MPs say young people need to be taught about relationships as well as contraception. The UK has twice the level of teenage pregnancy of France and Germany. The government said it would be [...]

  • The Economist Weighs In With More Misinformation about America’s “Double Bind”: Too Few Births and Not Enough Immigrants

    Updated: 2012-12-20 00:35:54
    For decades, when immigration is the subject, The Economist has been Europe’s equivalent of the Wall Street Journal and the now defunct, in print at least, Newsweek.   According to The Economist, more immigration, preferably in unlimited numbers, is always better than less. And even though England, where The Economist is based, has a multitude . . . → Read More: The Economist Weighs In With More Misinformation about America’s “Double Bind”: Too Few Births and Not Enough Immigrants

  • UK population growth fastest since the 1950s

    Updated: 2012-12-19 10:01:58
    The UK population has grown at its fastest pace since the post-war baby boom in the past decade, according to the 2011 census figures out yesterday. On census night, there were 63,181,775 people living in the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics said. The country has gained a net 4.1m people, or almost seven [...]

  • Scottish population at its highest ever

    Updated: 2012-12-19 09:41:38
    The first set of results from the 2011 Census in Scotland have shown that the population of the country was at its highest level ever. The population on Census Day was 5,295,000 – up 5% (233,000) since 2001 and the highest rise between two censuses in the past century. The number of people aged over [...]

  • Population Projections: The Best is Bad, the Worst, Disaster

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:57:54
    The Center for Immigration Studies has published a new backgrounder titled Projecting Immigration’s Impact on the Size and Age Structure of the 21st Century American Population. Written by Dr. Steven A. Camarota and using immigration statistics the Census Bureau finds most likely, the 2050 population will soar from 309.3 million in 2010 to 436 . . . → Read More: Population Projections: The Best is Bad, the Worst, Disaster

  • The Election Is Over but the Deceptive Job Reports Continue; Immigrants Displacing American Workers

    Updated: 2012-12-18 13:45:26
    For at least a year during the months leading up to the November election, all  the candidates talked about was jobs—the shortage and their individual plans to create more of them. Yet none (that I know of) mentioned the link between over-immigration and American unemployment even though the 1:1 ratio of legal immigrants to . . . → Read More: The Election Is Over but the Deceptive Job Reports Continue; Immigrants Displacing American Workers

  • More People, More Power Stations, More Cost

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:32:18
    Population Growth Could Add £1 Trillion to UK Energy Costs A new report by an LSE Masters student commissioned by Population Matters shows that the additional power stations needed to supply a UK population of 87.7 million people (the top end of the projected range for 2050) would cost between £380 billion and £1.02 trillion [...]

  • More Misguided Bloomberg Blustering about Immigration

    Updated: 2012-12-16 00:52:12
    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of America’s prominent amnesty and open borders advocates. Among those who lobby for more immigration, Bloomberg is perhaps the most elite. Forbes ranks Bloomberg as the world’s 15th wealthiest and 16th most powerful man. In 2011, Bloomberg’s fortune peaked at $25 billion. Bloomberg’s immigration positions have always . . . → Read More: More Misguided Bloomberg Blustering about Immigration

  • Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (112): Child Labor

    Updated: 2012-12-16 00:11:09
    (source) More on child labor (including some data). More Lewis Hine. More iconic images of human rights violations.

  • Separate that family but not this one

    Updated: 2012-12-15 13:42:42
    On Monday, the Archdiocese of Atlanta called on the Obama administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Speaking on behalf of one million Georgia Catholics, Archbishop Wilton Gregory lauded the administration for issuing work permits  and deportation reprieves to illegal immigrants.  However, the Archbishop wants more. He used familiar arguments about keeping families together as . . . → Read More: Separate that family but not this one

  • Rapid urbanization creates unique challenges

    Updated: 2012-12-14 17:21:46
    The world’s urban population is expected to grow by 2.6 billion people between 2011 and 2050, bringing the total number of urbanites to 6.3 billion, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service. This urban expansion will be especially burdensome for developing countries, where 82 percent of the [...]

  • Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (126): Gender Discrimination

    Updated: 2012-12-14 13:31:44
    (source) More about women’s rights. More protest signs. More jokes.

  • US report: The world in 2030

    Updated: 2012-12-12 22:42:00
    New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes at a speed unprecedented in modern history, says a new report by the U.S. intelligence community. The 140-page report released today by the National Intelligence Council lays out [...]

  • Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (111): Refugees in Pakistan

    Updated: 2012-12-12 00:44:09
    (source) More on Pakistan and on refugees. Some numbers. More iconic images of human rights violations.

  • Immigration surge swells English population

    Updated: 2012-12-11 18:57:15
    The population of England and Wales swelled between 2001 and 2011 after an influx of 2.9 million people born abroad, while the number of Christians plunged, according to census data published Tuesday. The figures from the March 2011 census paint a picture of a changing population, with more foreign-born residents and fewer people of faith. [...]

  • China’s food security: Sourcing from the seas

    Updated: 2012-12-06 19:48:29
    China is facing increasing difficulties to feed its growing population which is at the same time becoming more affluent. Although China has achieved nine consecutive years of increase in grain production from 2003 to 2012, its grain demand and supply gap continues to widen. In the first ten months of 2012, China’s cereal import reached [...]

  • Political Graffiti (218): Redistribution

    Updated: 2012-12-04 00:28:17
    (source) More Faith47 here and here. More on redistribution here. More political graffiti here.

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