March 10, 2010
- Angie Jackson, the Florida mother now known as the abortion tweeter, isn't the first woman to try to demystify abortion by talking about her story publicly. Since Romper Room personality Sherri Chessen got a very public abortion in 1962 after taking thalidomide, women have tried to erase the lingering shame of abortion by publicizing their own. Author Jennifer Baumgardner recently started the "I had an abortion" T-shirt project and a forthcoming Web site, ShareWithThree.org, that urges women to...
- As fallout from the Great Recession continues to besiege families on all fronts, the cost of a private education is creating an exodus of students from private to public schools. In an April 2009 My Goodness column, Patty Stonesifer and Sandy Stonesifer addressed one parent's concern that sending her children to private school hurt local schools and her community. The original article is reprinted below.
[more ...]... - Activists demand cabinet be sacked and President Umaru Yar'Adua appear in public.
- Disgraced former lawmaker Eric Massa admits he groped some male staffers, but not in an inappropriate way
• VIDEO: Massa on 'Beck' | TEXT OF INTERVIEW - Lost Boys actor Corey Haim dies at the age of 38, the Los Angeles coroner's office confirms.
Poppy Bracey, was found in her bedroom last week after returning home from her Manchester school. The teenager was taken to hospital but later died.- British Gas workers are to vote in a strike ballot over allegations of bullying by management, and on changes to working conditions.