Mother is the most beautiful word in the English language,
according to a survey of non-English speakers. More than 40,000
people in 102 countries were polled by the British Council to mark
its 70th anniversary. Mother, passion, smile, love and eternity
were the top five choices - but father did not even make it into
the list of 70 words. But some unusual choices did make the list,
such as peekaboo, flabbergasted, hen night and oi. Fantastic, destiny,
freedom, liberty and tranquillity rounded out the top 10. The British
Council promotes the learning of English around the world and teaches
the language to more than 500,000 people each year. He said: "All
of us have a mother and have a reasonable idea of who that person
is, it's one piece of certainty we can have and it's also a very
powerful word in a variety of cultures. I like this article very
much, because, my mother died when I was only 15 and my dad when
I was 7-years-old, when my son was admitted to school, ...
"There are two kinds of mothers on the planet. The first
kind thinks that every single thing their children do is perfect
and their children are God's gift to the world. Brooks, who started
his public life as a standup comedian before moving into writing,
directing, and acting in feature films, has done screen work every
bit as hilarious as any of the aforementioned names, and his latest
effort, Mother, proves that he's quite capable of bouncing back
from a failure (1994's The Scout, which he co-wrote and starred
in, but did not direct). In the formula-laden playground of modern
comedies, Mother comes as a breath of fresh air. Mother doesn't
have much of a plot. Regardless of your race, class, or creed, many
of the situations represented in Mother will have a familiar feel.
After a great deal of soul-searching, John decides that to better
understand women, he needs to investigate his strained relationship
with his mother, Beatrice (Debbie Reynolds). Thus begins an odyssey
of ...
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On Mother's Day, we honor the women whose steadfast love
and wisdom have made America a better place. During the Civil War,
Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," proposed
renaming July 4 as Mother's Day and a day dedicated to peace. Anna
Reeves Jarvis also began working for a similar holiday and sponsored
a Mother's Friendship Day in her hometown to reunite families divided
by the war. It was not until 2 years after her mother's death that
her daughter, Anna M. Jarvis, started the campaign for the observance
of Mother's Day in the United States. By 1911, Mother's Day was
observed in nearly every State of the Union, and in 1914, responding
to a joint resolution of the Congress, President Woodrow Wilson
officially designated Mother's Day a national observance. Effective
mothers can inspire their sons and daughters to love themselves
and others, work hard, make healthy choices, serve causes greater
than self, and achieve their dreams. This Mother's ...
Training of Trainers in Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding
Basics and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups is the product of the
work of many people and organizations, some of whom were involved
directly with the writing, reviewing, and production and others
who were involved in the actual training. The purpose of this course
is twofold: to train community health workers to facilitate infant
feeding mother-to-mother support groups and to train trainers of
community health workers in the methodology for facilitating mother-to-mother
support groups related to infant feeding. The course emphasizes
infant feeding technical content and mother-to-mother support group
methodology. The module contains two components: 1) a community
training module that can be used to train community health workers
in mother-to-mother support group methodology and infant feeding
content and 2) a training of trainers (TOT) module to use in combination
with the community module. The sessions on ...
NEW BEDFORD -- Touching on her favorite themes of love, humility
and the need for all to help the sick and dying, Mother Teresa of
Calcutta brought her message of compassion to thousands here eager
to hear it. During a stirring two-hour Mass at St. Lawrence, Martyr
Church, the frail, 84-year-old nun told nearly 1,000 worshipers
gathered inside the church -- and about another 1,000 who stood
outside in the rain or in the school auditorium -- that "One has
to be able to love to be loved." Speaking without notes in a barely
audible voice that was broadcast over loudspeakers to those outside
the church, Mother Teresa asked listeners to pray for her and her
sisters' work with lepers and people with AIDS, here and abroad.
"Thousands and millions of children are being killed by their own
mothers," she said. "The child that has been created to love and
to be loved, for greater things. We have been able to give in adoption
over 3,500 children already, and they have been ...
In fighting for the dignity of the destitute in a foreign
land, she gave the world a moral example that bridged divides of
culture, class and religion By BHARATI MUKHERJEE The Bengali chauvinist
in me got a thrill: "This is Peter Jennings, tonight live from Calcutta."
For the first and only time in my life, the great city I was born
and raised in hit the big time. Bengalis love to celebrate their
language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment
to a city that has been famously "dying" for more than a century.
They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels
any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world "another Calcutta."
And why were the American media in Calcutta? For the funeral of
an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant by the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
In this era of "ethnic cleansing," identity politics and dislocation
of communities, it is heartening that one of the most marginalized
people in recent history -- a minority Albanian ...
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The second aspect of the Goddess is that of Mother. As previously
stated among her names by which she is called are the Great Mother
and Mother Nature which signifies her worshippers believe her to
be the Mother, creator and life-giver to all of nature and to every
thing within. To this extent the ocean, which seems to contain the
beginning stages of life, may be thought as the Mother's womb. "And
water, like love, was (is) essential to the life-forces of fertility
and creativity, without which the psychic world as well as the material
world would become an arid desert, the waste land." Throughout the
history of Goddess worship, witchcraft, and currently in Neo-pagan
witchcraft the cauldon has been a feminine symbol associated with
the womb of the Mother Goddess. Grant Paradise to be the womb; for
Scripture teaches us that this is a true assumption when it says,
"I am He that formed thee in thy mother's womb" (Isaiah 44:2)...Moses...using
the allegory had declared Paradise ...
Yet, "Mother" Teresa, and those who worked with her, never
tried to convert to Christ the dying people for whom they cared.
Mother" Teresa could not have preached a clearer false gospel than
that quoted above. This is why I love priests so much. - No one
would deny that "Mother" Teresa did a marvelous piece of wonderful
humanitarian work among the poor and neglected of the world, but
what gospel did she preach to them? "Mother" Teresa provided the
classic example of compassionate and charitable deeds divorced from
truth. For those who don't know if they believe much in anything,
"Mother" Teresa suggested they try small acts of love toward others.
He documented the pitiful conditions of "Mother" Teresa's care facilities,
despite the millions of dollars she collected yearly. The first
issue of New Evangelization 2000 featured "Mother" Teresa prominently
with photographs of her, and one entire article entitled, "Mother
Teresa Promises Support." (Reported in the 2/15/93, ...
U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member
of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba FOR MANY, the debate
over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission
report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that
the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated
with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against
the United States" and ran blaring headlines like the one on the
June 17, 2004, front page of the New York Times: "Panel Finds No
Qaeda-Iraq Tie." But this was woefully imprecise. It assumed, not
unreasonably, that the 9/11 Commission's conclusion was based on
a firm foundation of intelligence reporting, that the intelligence
community had the type of human intelligence and other reporting
that would allow senior-level analysts to draw reasonable conclusions.
We know now that was not the case. John Lehman, a 9/11 commissioner,
...
A mother's legal challenge to guidelines allowing girls to
have abortions without parental consent returns to the High Court
on Tuesday. Sue Axon, 50, wants parents to be informed if a girl
under the age of 16 is referred for an abortion. Mrs Axon, of Baguley,
Manchester, who has two teenage daughters, says she regrets having
an abortion herself 20 years ago. The Department of Health rules
are undergoing a judicial review. Current Department of Health guidelines
state that terminations can take place without parents' consent
and doctors should respect girls' privacy. "The Department of Health
seems to assume that every parent in Britain is a bad parent and
will not support their child if they get themselves in a mess,"
she said. "[But] I am feeling dead confident, I really do believe
that they will have to alter the law," said Mrs Axon. "We have got
overwhelming evidence to prove that confidentiality encourages sexual
activity. "We have got a very, very strong case ...
By Andrew Marra | Friday, November 11, 2005, 07:20 PM Investigators
say Debra Diaz injected her three young sons with her own infected
blood and passed their injuries off as insect bites. And they say
she never would have been caught if she hadn't told them herself.
The arrest of Diaz, a suburban West Palm Beach mother, is a textbook
case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- a rare psychological condition
in which a parent sickens a child in a plea for attention. It's
a particularly sad situation, but the crime can also be particularly
hard to prove. Diaz's case was no exception. Why? Phillips said
the physical evidence to link her to the boys' illnesses just wasn't
there. But detectives say they brought Diaz to the sheriff's office
headquarters Thursday and eventually got to the truth.
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seven wives..." "As round as an apple,/As deep as a cup..." "Baa,
baa, black sheep,/Have you any wool?" "Old Mother Hubbard/Went to
the cupboard..." "Three children sliding on the ice/Upon a summer's
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