A HEAD-BOBBLING COLLECTION (The Victoria Advocate: Fri, 21 Sep) HOUSTON - By popular demand, there is a population explosion in the visitors' clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. The wall of fame in the office of Steve Perry, the Astros' visiting clubhouse manager, is standing room only. Bobblehead dolls are spreading like kudzu.
Fallout from the 'one-child policy' (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News: Thu, 20 Sep) A U.S. scholar has produced an interesting paper on the long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy, which has averted more than 300 million births, that is to say a mass of people equivalent to the entire U.S. population.
Commonwealth Celebrates Latino Community During National Hispanic Heritage Month (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News: Thu, 20 Sep) To honor the local and global contributions of Pennsylvania's Latino community, Governor Rendell's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs today kicked off the commonwealth's celebration of national Hispanic Heritage Month.
Bed shortage acknowledged (Otago Daily Times: Thu, 20 Sep) THE Southland District Health Board has finally bowed to a three-year public outcry and accepted there is a shortage of hospital beds for the elderly in Queenstown.
DigitalGlobe launches its newest spy satellite (Denver Post: Wed, 19 Sep) Longmont-based DigitalGlobe has successfully launched its newest imagery satellite, WorldView-1, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
A HEAD-BOBBLING COLLECTION
Fallout from the 'one-child policy'
Commonwealth Celebrates Latino Community During National Hispanic Heritage Month
Bed shortage acknowledged
Immigrants fuel population growth in Maryland
DigitalGlobe launches its newest spy satellite
