| MATAMOROS — While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
MATAMOROS � While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary school in Matamoros, moms are brought to the school to make students meals. �Who better to make them lunch,� reasoned Principal Maria de Los Angeles Galvan Tapia. �They�re cooking for their kids, so obviously they want to feed them well.� Out of necessity more than careful planning, moms at Franklin, as the school is known across the city, take turns cooking lunch for 550 hungry children. Without government funding for a school lunch program, schools in Mexico employ a variety of low cost alternatives, usually on the parents� dime. At Franklin, parents have taken up the cause of organizing meals for their students. Responsibilities for the week rotate among parents, mostly mothers.
Cruise explores a harsh universe of thinning ice
It's well past midnight, but the sun is still gleaming just behind jagged peaks, washing the sky with a rosy shimmer. A waterfall gushes from a rocky cleft beneath the downy hood of a glacier. Light glints off the ice floes like sequins scattered on the calm water before us. No one can bear the idea of going to bed. "It's just amazing," says Martina Becker, a German woman clinging to the endless day. "Everywhere you look there's ice pouring down. I think this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen." Someone spots a disturbance in the water ahead, and we dash to the front of the glassed-in deck just in time to see black fins roiling the water. A whale, we suspect. Or maybe not. In this surreal universe north of the Arctic Circle, possibilities seem infinite.
Back To School Means Return Of School Blood Drives
Labor Day signals the end of summer, a difficult season for blood collection, and one that blood centers are usually happy to bid farewell. After coping with tight blood supplies since Memorial Day, there is relief in sight -- school is back in session and so are school blood drives.
Just how important are drives held on high school and college campuses? A recent study published in Transfusion, indicates that only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate -- far less than the 60 percent figure previously estimated -- so student drives are indispensable.
According to a survey of its membership by America's Blood Centers, approximately 16 percent of its annual U.S. collections come from student blood drives. For some blood centers, that number can be much higher.
Protect Your Family During Mosquito Season
(Family Features) - Just one is all it takes. One mosquito bite can transmit West Nile virus or other diseases. One tick bite can result in Lyme disease. In 2006 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 3,887 cases of West Nile virus in the United States, resulting in 120 deaths. And according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), more than 100,000 cases of Lyme disease have been reported here.Traditional insect repellents can be effective, but the potential health risks-especially to children-have many parents thinking twice about slathering man-made chemicals on their kids' clothing, arms, legs and faces. The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions against using products containing DEET on children less than 2 years of age. And even for older children, it recommends avoiding application of DEET to their face and hands.
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