Category: America

America

What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the district’s eighth grade curriculum on the Holocaust. In the book, American cartoonist…

5 February 2022 · 10 min read

America

New WHO platform promotes global cancer prevention 

With one in five people worldwide developing cancer during their lifetimes, prevention of the disease has become one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century.

4 February 2022 · 3 min read

America

Pandemic threatens push to end Female Genital Mutilation

The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice.  Shuttered…

4 February 2022 · 4 min read

America

Anxiety leads to diabetes and heart disease in men

U.S. researchers have found that men who are more anxious are more likely to develop heart disease and diabetes. The results of the study are published in the Journal of…

4 February 2022 · 5 min read

America

A hen tried to sneak into the Pentagon

A chicken was captured while "searching the Pentagon's security zone" - one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the world, an animal protection organization said, quoted by AFP. Animal…

4 February 2022 · 1 min read

America

TOON Books Acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers

TOON Books, founded by Francoise Mouly in 2008, has found a new home: The publisher was acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers (ABFYR), and is now that ABFYR's seventh…

3 February 2022 · 3 min read

America

New Book Looks into the Value of Religious Confession

“Religious Confession and Evidential Privilege in the 21st Century” seeks to spark discussion on the preservation of the confidentiality of confession while increasing accountability, especially in the case of the…

2 February 2022 · 4 min read