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Recent research supports the growing body of evidence that has found that sperm has a far greater effect on the health of a baby than had previously been thought.
Hurrah! Finally, men can take their rightful place as half of the participants in the great fertility debate.
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There are 165 million cups of tea consumed each day in the UK, which adds up to 62 billion per year. This is currently noteworthy for two reasons, one being the soaring costs of production due in large part to global extreme weather conditions. In 2012, minimal rain in Kenya caused the price of a cup of tea in the UK to rise to a two-and-a-half year high.
The second reason to note the amount of tea drunk each year is because the British Standards Institution announced in April 2013 that it is reviewing its specification for how to make a cup of tea as part of its systematic periodic review of all its standards.
Interesting!
Protection and support for world press freedom is needed more than ever. The International Press Institute (IPI) announced that 2012 was the deadliest year for journalists since the organisation began tracking journalists’ death in 1997.
The IPI says that “an unprecedented 133 journalists were killed in the line of duty or as a consequence of their reporting in 2012.”
“IPI has also expressed concern over increasing hostility against the media in the form of repressive media laws.”
World Press Freedom day was set by the UN in 1993. David Hoffman, President Emeritus and Founder of Internews, an international non-profit media development organization, writes in the Huffington Post that “Western democracies have only begun to recognize the importance of media in foreign policy.”
The Costs of War Project run by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University estimates that “The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest.”
This is so incredibly sad. “The report concluded the United States gained little from the war while Iraq was traumatized by it.”
Read the full Reuters article.
Watching the noodle man spinning dough in the window, stopping to admire the cupcake display, buying an ice cream sandwich from the food truck, my shopping bags swinging at my hips, shoes click, click, clicking on the pavement, meandering in the general direction of my bus stop when I turn my head looking up the street, and it’s there, only one stop away, and I make a quick calculation in my head.
Yes, I can make it; I used to be a sprinter after all! Shocking everyone around me I suddenly start a mad dash down the sidewalk and what used to be a vision of style and leisurely afternoon strolling, has at once turned into a manic frenzy of bags and hair flying in the wind, causing double takes with my ability to do all this in heels. I jump into the bus as the doors close with a swoosh behind me. Out of breath and searching for my pass, I can’t hold back my lips from curving into a small smile. My fellow passengers are all looking on with appreciation and admiration.
For anyone who lives in a city understands this, the classic run for the bus or train only to have the doors cruelly closed in front of your face. Triumphant and spent, I park myself in a window seat, so as not to miss one second of the thriving streets sailing by, waiting to be explored tomorrow.
