Is It Any Wonder How We Get Enormous? We Eat An Enormous Breakfast
Burger King now offers a new breakfast sandwich called The Enormous Omelet Sandwich which is eggs, sausage, bacon and cheese on a bun. This sandwich totals 730 calories and 47 grams of fat which even beats the Whopper, which has 700 calories and 42 grams of fat.
American Workers Underpaid and Overworked?
Only half of U.S. workers are happy with their jobs, according to the Conference Board, a New-York based business research group. Compared to a decade ago, job satisfaction has declined among all types of workers. Only about one in three said they are satisfied with their pay. (Associated Press)
Checking a Baby’s Gender is Illegal in China
The tradition of wanting a boy in China has resulted in a high rate of abortion to female fetuses, so it is illegal in China for doctors to use ultrasound to detect the unborn baby’s sex for nonmedical reasons.
Doctors have faced penalties in the past but now China is proposing a new law that will make doing an ultrasound on a mother for nonmedical reasons would be considered a crime. (Associated Press, 2/28/05)
Tennessee Court Takes Away 11-year-old Daughter Will Return Child When Mother Learns English
In Lebanon, Tennessee, an indigenous Mixtecan mother from Mexico is fighting a custody battle with the Tennessee Court, when her daughter was taken away because she kept her from school. In a case like this, judges usually give parents a reunification plan ranging from parenting classes to supervised visits. However, in this case, Judge Tatum has order the mother to learn English within six months or lose all her rights to her child.
(New York Times, May 12,2005, (2 Families, 2 Very Different Cultures and the Little Girl Between Them)
Philadelphia High School Students Must Take a Year of African-American History to Graduate
In a step beyond celebrating Black History Month in February, the Philadelphia School district will require their 10th-grade students to take a year of African American History to graduate. It may be the first U.S. school district to require students to study black history. The course is already a popular elective at 11 of the 54 schools in a school district which is 65% black. The textbook used will be, “African American Odyssey” by Darline Hine.