The study, which followed 59,000 African-American women for six years, found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer. What constitutes "feeling" like a victim of racism? A look, a remark, a job not obtained? I'm with the earlier poster; if it has anything to do with race, it's a function of poverty which in turn leads to inaccessability to or indifference about health care. where I'm pointed at,stared at, laughed at, talked about...

You people are so far beyond hurting your work, a story about how PETA employees allegedly killed kittens and puppies won't make much of a dent. They just don't tell you about what they do with 90 percent of the animals that aren't adopted or recovered by their owners. After she launched into a tirade about how the ranchers wouldn't be in this situation if they had treated the animals differently, Peterson was repeatedly asked how an organization that was supposed to care about animals...

The ranch hasa production sale each year on the first Saturday of February with 170 bulls and 30 bred heifers being offered. Some of their buyers run a straight Hereford operation but most of the bulls will go into a crossbreeding program, primarily on black cows. The cow herd is also culled very aggressively for problem free production. They will AI about 500 cows and heifers a year and transfer around 50 embryos. Their main focus is the production of bulls for the commercial cattleman....

Pastures and hay crops in the area, already heavily damaged by a late freeze, have continued in terrible condition through dry weather -- a problem from Kansas and Missouri east to the Carolinas and Maryland, the second year of crisis for much of the south. Dave Surprenant and family, veteran dairy operators, are milking 160 cows now and have a total of 300 on their farm, east of Manteno. Bucking a trend that has seen dairies become almost as scarce as ski lifts on the Illinois landscape,...

While he said "it's really fun to compete and to win at these events, kids can also learn life experiences they can use down the road," in being involved in 4-H and FFA livestock projects. While not standing still, the 111-pound lamb did his best to chew Jenna's shirt. Jenna admitted she originally didn't think her lamb would do too well, explaining, "I thought he was too small. He said the two lambs he chose as his champions stood out among the others. Market lambs judges at Weld County...

The squat antique instrument with its dark-walnut veneer sounds enchanting, those black and white keys responding to expert, unseen hands. But what immediately followed did raise a few eyebrows: a Southwestern cactus salad, featuring not only sliced prickly pear pad, mustard greens, and roasted corn, but also the spongy, slightly bitter innards of the noble saguaro, all of it drizzled over with a saguaro syrup-vinaigrette, made from the fruit of that legally protected desert flora. But...