Reducing children's classroom sitting time using sit-to-stand desks: findings from pilot studies in UK and Australian primary schools BACKGROUND:This research examined the influence of sit-to-stand desks on classroom sitting time in primary school children.METHODS:Pilot controlled trials ... SA Cle...
Taiwan is a transit territory for Chinese citizens who enter the United States illegally and may become victims of debt bondage and forced prostitution in the United States. ◎★ Amnesty International Violence against women and girls The strengthened Domestic Violence Prevention Act failed to provide ...
Americans have lost our understanding of the meaning of democracy and of the powers democracy brings us and duties it places on us. We have become consumers instead of citizens and we think that markets should make decisions for us instead of our votes. ...
To break the impasse, small partisans demandedequal suffragefor men and women. They went after the sneaky insertion of “male” into the 14th Amendment, which poisoned the 13th and 15th as far as women were concerned. Women’s Suffrage activists managed to bring the sidelined half of the adul...
Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, assassination, and more facts.
My aim has been to entertain and immerse an audience in an environment teeming with unexpected threats, and to take them on a ride through an aspect of our history that is under-represented and hopefully encourage them to rethink the Australian story. About the filmmaker – Stephen Maxwell ...
Those of us working on identity technology have to internalize the lessons here. Over-identification is ALWAYS wrong. But beyond that, there are people who are especially vulnerable to it. They have to be treated as first class citizens with clear rights and we need to figure out how to pro...
Baldo, a 38-year-old transportation administrator, said in his office decorated with pictures of his wife and six children. But with his wife home with a newborn, one of the parents was entitled by law to take the time, and he needed to pick up the kids. "It's very convenient." ...
it may be even more so if they fear reporting or discussing workplace violations due to concerns around disclosure of their immigration status [61,65]. Broadly speaking, migrant populations may not be afforded the same rights as citizens, which can prevent them from seeking health or social ser...
Rebecca is the lead safety reporter and in-house expert for SafeWise.com. She has been a journalist and blogger for over 25 years, with a focus on home and community safety for the past decade. Rebecca spends dozens of hours every month poring over crime and safety reports and spotting tr...