Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, “five-year-old Addy, who was diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer last year, got to fulfill her dream of becoming a pop star with her own Katy Perry-inspired music video,” as reported by Time. Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic reports that: Wish kid Addy is like many little girls her age. She loves cotton […]
An extreme drought in Texas is forcing the town of Wichita Falls to take drastic action, using treated waste water for drinking. As KERA News reports: “Wichita Falls could soon become the first in the country where half of the drinking water comes directly from wastewater.” Mayor Glenn Barham says three years of extreme drought […]
The controversy over Terri Schiavo’s case elevated a family matter into a political battle that continues to frame end-of-life issues today. As the New York Times reports, “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave — slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her body, slave to bitter fighting between […]
A photojournalist who covered last year’s deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh draws connections to New York from clothing labels he found in the rubble. As reported by the New York Times, on April 24, 2013, “Ismail Ferdous photographed the deadliest disaster in garment industry history: the collapse of Rana Plaza in […]
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cancelled a planned speech at Rutgers University on Saturday in the wake of student protests. Rice had been scheduled to speak at Rutgers’ commencement ceremony for $35,000 on May 18th and was to receive an honorary doctoral degree at that that time Rice announced the cancellation on her Facebook […]