Food articles posted in Oct 2004
Marriage and HIV
10/20/2004 by Connie Veneracion
Filed under The Mommy Journals
Alma sent me a link to a story in New Zealand Papua, New Guinea (as corrected by Alma)about HIV-infected men who marry:
A MAN has infected 300 other people with the HIV virus in East Sepik, a United Nations Development Program-funded workshop was told.
In another instance, a wealthy Papua New Guinean man living with HIV/AIDS just [...]
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'Miseducation: the invisible crime'
10/13/2004 by Connie Veneracion
Filed under The Mommy Journals
The title is taken from the words of one Antonio Go, an academic supervisor, as quoted by The Straits Times. In the article, Mr. Go claims that textbooks used by Philippine public school students are riddled with factual mistakes. He cites examples.
Mao Zedong conquered China and transformed it into the most populous communist country in [...]
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Education plans
10/10/2004 by Connie Veneracion
Filed under The Mommy Journals
I was reading the news about the securities scandal involving College Assurance Plan (CAP) and thought about own decision long ago to get educational plans for our kids.
Before our older daughter reached her first birthday, we bought two sets of educational plans for her–high school and college plans. Not from CAP. Those were the times [...]
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Free lugaw and Jonas Tederanes
10/06/2004 by Connie Veneracion
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In the ensuing discussion of the government’s plan to ration food coupons to poor families, a commenter said :
I just saw the news last night (GMA7) about the food program of some NGOs… and they interviewed this mother who knew all of the feeding schedules and locations everyday! She just goes there dragging her children [...]
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Health and the family
10/02/2004 by Connie Veneracion
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My kids stopped taking multi-vitamins at around two years old. I switched them to full cream milk right after their first birthdays. I’m one of those mothers who think that ads claiming that this-and-that ingredient in milk formulas or these-and-those combinations in multi-vitamin supplements will make my kids stronger and smarter are exaggerated. As far [...]
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