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Humane Society of United States Not so Humane to People
The Humane Society has outed itself as indifferent to human welfare. When the HSUS revealed abuses by a meat packer, leading to a massive meat recall, many applauded. But apparently, the HSUS kept the news of animal abuse and downer ...

Society is gradually shifting ground on sexual diversity
Cuban society’s traditionally chauvinistic and homophobic nature is little by little opening up to sexual diversity –a fact largely disavowed until quite recently– to the point that some strings are being pulled to give its ...

Early Book Society : for the study of manuscripts and printing history
The Early Books Society (EBS) website provides information on the Society's: aims; membership; publications; and items of related interest. The Society grew out of sessions run at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western ...

BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP Praised by The Humane Society of the United ...
The Humane Society of the United States commends international fashion house BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP for pledging to end the sale of fur by Fall 2008. The decision comes following a meeting between representatives of The HSUS and the ...

The Endocrine Society Announces New Journal Policy for the Revised ...
The Endocrine Society recently announced a new policy for authors who publish in their journals which include Endocrinology, Endocrine Reviews, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) and Molecular Endocrinology. ...

AGRICULTURE: Humane Society sues over loophole letting sick cows ...
The Humane Society of the United States sued the Agriculture Department yesterday, accusing it of creating a loophole that permits potentially sick cows into the food supply. The Agriculture Department…

Director, North Cascades Initiative / The Wilderness Society ...
The Wilderness Society (TWS), a national non-profit membership organization devoted to preserving wilderness, is seeking a highly skilled candidate to direct a longterm North Cascades initiative for our Pacific Northwest program. ...

The Society of the Owned, Pt. 3: Deeper in Debt
Part Three of a series. Let's return to our metaphorical street corner from the previous post, because to understand the current economic crisis it might help to consider how many have been run down at that economic intersection as ...

Exchange Student Claims Coptic Christian Family Nearly Starved Him ...
An American boy (Jonathan McCullum) travels to Egypt as an exchange student and lives with a Coptic family. He claims that the Coptic family fasted so often and so intently that they almost killed him. He lost about fifty pounds.

Explosion kills two during Russia's presidential early vote
A bomb blew up in South Ossetia, which is Georgia's Russia-backed separatist region. The explosion killed two police officers and wounded at least 10 civilians Thursday, an official said.