NYMHM: Enviropigs, a woman of Afghanistan, child labor, Napster Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:24:06 -0800 ======================================================================== NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * March 5, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 10 Important but overlooked news from around the world. NYMHM is a free service of Newsdesk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - DONATIONS: http://artsandmedia.net/contribute/ - ONLINE: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004574.html - RSS: http://newsdesk.org/news/atom.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTED: "My goal is to really represent Islam. It's not a religion that oppresses women. Of course it's very risky. I may lose my life during this process." -- Wazhma Frogh, an Afghan woman who uses to Koran to advance women's rights and literacy (see "Top Stories," below). CONTENTS: *Top Stories* "Enviropig": Less pollution, more questions Short-changed by the labels? Artists dispute Napster settlement Koran in hand, she wins over mullahs *Media* News outlet seeks reader donations to fund Iraq trip *Labor* From sweatshops to cotton fields: Child labor goes rural ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORIES ........................................................................ > "Enviropig": Less Pollution, More Questions A little bit of genetic editing is all that's required to slash the environmental damage caused by sewage from industrial pig farms, researchers in Canada say. Salon.com reports that scientists in Guelph, Canada, have combined an E.Coli gene with a mouse protein, and spliced it into pigs to improve their ability to breakdown phytase, a natural substance rich in phosphorous. In industrial conditions, phosphorous from superabundant pig sewage leaches into water supplies, causing algae blooms, fish kills, and similar ecological ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004575.html > Short-Changed by the Labels? Musicians Dispute Napster Settlement The recording industry may have netted hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement money from lawsuits targeting Napster, Kazaa and other music-sharing services -- but a group of "prominent" artist managers say their clients have not shared in the bounty. The New York Post reports that EMI, Universal and Warner are still calculating payouts and the "level of copyright infringement" for each artist ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004576.html > Koran in Hand, She Wins Over Mullahs Fiery and not yet out of her 20s, Wazhma Frogh has been making waves in Afghanistan by using the Koran to undermine oppression of women and boost her literacy and education programs. The Christian Science Monitor reports that Frogh's work is part of a trend among liberal-minded Muslims to use sacred texts to advance women's issues where secular approaches have failed. Now an employee of a Canadian international development agency, Frogh works at both the policy level and on the street ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004577.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MEDIA ........................................................................ > News Outlet Seeks Reader Donations to Fund Iraq Trip An Oregon news service has come up with an unusual way to help pay for a reporter's trip to Iraq: It's asking readers to donate money to the cause Tim King, executive editor for the Salem News, is heading to Iraq later this month to spend up to six weeks embedded with Oregon National Guard troops. In order to defray the high costs of such a trip, the agency is putting on a fundraising event ... GET THE WHOLE STORY: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004578.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LABOR ........................................................................ > From Sweatshops to Cotton Fields: Child Labor Goes Rural Far from the urban industrial sweatshops, child labor remains widespread in rural parts of the developing world. In the Philippines, advocates say tens of thousands of children are working on farms, in mines, and even in deep-sea fishing. The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment, in a press release late last month, claimed to have rescued 76 children under age 15 from working at a single sugar plantation. The agency plans to send the children back to school, and also to provide them with medical care and ... 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