April 27, 2006

Helen Reddy to Receive Veteran Feminists of America’s First Lifetime Achievement Award at May 1 Event in Los Angeles

New CD Anthology, Helen Reddy: The Woman I Am - The Definitive Collection, in Stores May 2

Reddy’s New Memoir, The Woman I Am, in Stores May 4

WHO: Helen Reddy, world renowned recording artist

WHAT: Veteran Feminists of America luncheon and awards ceremony, where Reddy will be honored with the organization’s first Lifetime Achievement Award

WHERE: Feminist Majority Auditorium in Los Angeles

433 South Beverly Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

WHEN: Monday, May 1

1:30pm-5:00pm

My parents had a Helen Reddy tape cassette that we listened to all the time back in the 70s. I loved it.

Roar.

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ScienceDaily: Hyena Mothers Give Their Cubs A Helpful Dose Of Hormones

Among spotted hyenas, being a supermom is less about packing lunches, and more about packing a hormonal punch that gives her cubs a powerful head start.

In a study appearing in the April 26 edition of the international science journal Nature, Michigan State University zoology professor Kay Holekamp and her former graduate student Stephanie Dloniak along with Jeffrey French from the University of Nebraska, report that high-ranking, dominant spotted hyena mothers pass to their offspring high levels of certain hormones that make cubs more aggressive and sexually vigorous – in other words more likely to survive, thrive and reproduce…

“This research sheds light on mammalian reproductive biology and helps us imagine how evolution might have produced such a bizarre product,” Holekamp said

Are we sure it’s bizarre?

ESPN.com - NBA - Sources: Kobe switching to No. 24

Bryant’s switch is the NBA’s most significant jersey number change since the 1994-95 season,

What?