Registration required by Friday, February 6 Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 23, 2015. Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with creatures living in Thorn Creek Woods at ‘Animals in Winter: Dreams of Spring’ on Sunday, February 8, 1-3 p.m. How do these animals survive winter’s chills? What adaptations have they developed to[Read More…]
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Freeland Foods Voluntarily Recalls Spicy Seed Due To Potential Health Risk
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2015. Freeland Foods, Inc. of San Jose, CA is voluntarily recalling the Go Raw Organic Spicy Seed Mix, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened[Read More…]
President Obama Says Treating Drug Use As A Criminal Problem Is ‘Counterproductive’
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—January 22, 2015 By: Tony Newman President Barack Obama continues to speak out against mass incarceration, the devastating impact of our drug policies on communities of color and his expectation that marijuana legalization will continue to spread. Obama’s comments came today during his YouTube interviews with YouTube bloggers, Bethany[Read More…]
New Space Telescope Concept Could Image Objects At Far Higher Resolution Than Hubble
A new orbiting telescope concept developed at CU-Boulder could allow scientists to image objects in space or on Earth at hundreds of times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. Image courtesy NASA. U of Colorado Boulder-(ENEWSPF)- University of Colorado Boulder researchers will update NASA officials next week on a revolutionary[Read More…]
Getting To Know Rosetta’s Comet
Comet from 8 km European Space Agency-(ENEWSPF)- Rosetta is revealing its host comet as having a remarkable array of surface features and with many processes contributing to its activity, painting a complex picture of its evolution. In a special edition of the journal Science, initial results are presented from seven of Rosetta’s[Read More…]
High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars
California Institute of Technology-(ENEWSPF)- This panorama is the view NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained from the top of the "Cape Tribulation" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars. The component images were[Read More…]
HRC Highlights Illinois’s LGBT Protections, Laws and Legislative Proposals in Inaugural National Report
New Report Reveals that Equal Treatment Remains Out of Reach for LGBT Americans in Most States – Discrimination Continues Even With Marriage Equality WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, in partnership with the Equality Federation, today released its first[Read More…]
Sudan: Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed in South Kordofan, Jan. 22, 2015
NEW YORK/PARIS—(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. A hospital operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was directly targeted in an aerial bombing in Sudan on January 20, forcing the suspension of medical activities, MSF announced today. The hospital, located in the Nuba Mountains village of Frandala[Read More…]
UN Security Council Strongly Condemns Terrorist Attack in Eastern Ukraine
A UNHCR staff member asks a displaced Ukrainian man about the situation in his native Donetsk region, which has been heavily affected by the conflict. Photo: UNHCR/I. Zimova (file) NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 January 2015 – The United Nations Security Council has condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ today’s shelling which resulted in[Read More…]
Senator Elizabeth Warren Announces Legislation to Advance Medical Research in Remarks at Families USA Conference
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. In remarks at the Families USA Health Action Conference in Washington, DC today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren announced plans to introduce new legislation to advance medical research. “Over the past fifty years, the American system of medical innovation has transformed the health of[Read More…]
