In Ghaziabad, some 20,000 entrants came to write the entrance test to join the police force. Finding the test ‘too hard’, hundreds of them started rioting and molesting women. Disturbing statement by a local resident: “These men will become gangsters if they do not become policemen.” More here.
Modal Minority has these posts on the job situation elsewhere - in Nigeria and in New York.
The whole poem here. By Judith Strasser.Trash your cigarettes. Shun restaurants and bars
that traffic in secondhand smoke. Eat organic
and low on the food chain. Steam vegetables;
don’t grill meat. Just say “no” to marijuana, Jack
Daniels and cocaine. Stay home: do not rent cars
at Miami’s airport, or ride the New York subways,
or dig potshards in the Negev after massacres
in Hebron. Don’t drive vans older than you are
to places you’ve never been…
From The Cancer Poetry Project.
Singer and breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow, who is doing a great deal to raise awareness about breast cancer.I think there are amazingly great advances being made in cancer research. I’ve met so many amazing doctors who are impassioned and convicted about finding a cure. Just the advances that have been made in the last few years regarding gene research as well as effective treatment are encouraging. We are past the time when the mastectomy is the only solution. It has only been in the last 20 years that lumpectomy and radiation/chemo became a viable option to having the entire breast removed.
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Survival stories, issues and more reports here. Also an incredibly courageous photo essay that brought tears to my eyes.
