| Edwina's Story: Celebrating the Empowerment of Women in Africa
Washington, D.C. In the village of Nyanga, in Ntungamo District, Uganda, 18-year-old Edwina gazes out the window of her family’s small house, lost in big thoughts. Edwina, the third of nine children, is determined to become a doctor. Her surname, Atusingwire, is a Banyankore name meaning "she has overcome or succeeded" – Edwina thinks of this not merely as a name, but as a prophecy to be fulfilled. She points to the trees outside her window and breaks her silence. "All these banana plants used to be ours," she says. Edwina’s soft-spoken voice conveys a warm spirit and sharp intellect. Her large eyes, yellowed from a lingering case of malaria, tell a story of their own. At 15, Edwina was an excellent student, but her family had no money left to pay for her education.
Chefs vie for 'Hell'ish haute cuisine spot
The devil's in the details, or for reality TV show hopefuls in Chicago, the chef's hat as they vie for a spot cooking in Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen."
Ramsay, a three-star restaurateur with eateries scattered across the globe, berates, belittles and bedevils the chef-contestants throughout the series until the final one standing wins a six-figure salary and a job running his or her own upscale restaurant.
More than 350 cooks were at the Illinois Institute of Culinary Arts Wednesday, trying to win a spot on Ramsay's televised boot camp. Several said the Scot's in-your-face behavior and profane language isn't unusual in the restaurant world, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"You see that in every kitchen,'' Scott Van Dyke, 42, who cooks at a Grand Rapids, Mich., restaurant, told the Sun-Times.
A child's obesity weighs on parents
Parents judge other parents all of the time — it's almost a modern-day sport — but no one may feel judged more than a parent of a child who is overweight.
You don't have to put your overweight child on Maury Povich's daytime talk show to be the recipient of unwelcome attention and unbidden advice. Everyone — not just doctors and school nurses, but also mere acquaintances and even strangers — has something to say to the parent of a child struggling with obesity.
On the question of whether childhood obesity constitutes a public health crisis, there no longer seems to be any debate. Parents, educators and health experts all agree that something has to be done to curb the problem.
But those who are dealing with the crisis firsthand say that talking to children about weight issues is no simple matter.
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