| Hair for a good cause
Seven-year-olds Sydney Nagahiro and Rebecca Marrow of Andover were in kindergarten when one of their classmates donated her hair to Locks of Love. After spending a year and a half growing out their own hair, the Pike School second-graders each donated a 10-inch ponytail to the organization, which provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children who have medical hair loss. "I'm lucky I have so many things," said Sydney, who joined Rebecca in explaining the program to their schoolmates. "I'm glad I can help other kids." Nine year-old Jillian McCarthy of Medford gave a similar gift on Valentine's Day, donating 8½ inches of her hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, a campaign that encourages people to donate hair that is crafted into wigs for women who have lost their hair to cancer treatments.
Touring Libyan Blogs: Between history, hair, leadership, cleaning ...
Most of us have studied some history, many of us think we know history, but the majority of us are really ignorant about large parts of our own history. That is why the personal accounts of travellers a la Ibn Battuta style are so important to record the making of history. In this regard I am very grateful to Abughilan and his wonderful blog of the same name. Abughilan's discovery this time is the tales of Ernest H. Griffin, a British doctor with the Red Crescent and his adventures in Libya between 1912-1914. "The mission consisted of two surgeons, two nurses and materials and supplies for a mobile hospital. After a short sojourn near Zavia town, the mission hospital was moved up to Yefren on 13th October, 1912 carried by a caravan consisted of 120 camels and protected by 24 gens d'armes provided by the chief of the Western Mountain Sullieman Al Barouni.[…] Dr.
Desperate Sherman Oaks dad is the father of invention
An album of household noise from a hair dryer, washing machine and vacuum cleaner is soothing both fussy infants and frazzled adults. In Berlin and Tokyo, "Infant Calm" (Pre/Sony; $14.98), with its purring mechanical noise and odd syncopation, might pass for cutting-edge electronic dance music. But that's not why Sherman Oaks producer Michael Preston made the CD, which has earned applause from sleep-deprived parents across the country. Five years ago, Preston and his nurse practitioner wife Jocelyn found themselves being driven slowly insane by their newborn daughter's nonstop colicky screaming. It was when the couple turned on the oven fan and saw baby Faye miraculously lulled to sleep that stay-at-home dad Preston got the idea for "Infant Calm," a collection of six gentle, expertly recorded "white noise" sounds, including clothes dryer and washer-dryer combo.
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