For the modern era, she is the definitive Egyptian queen, although she was descended from the Macedonians who ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great. Black basalt, 146 cm tall. Ptolemaic Period, 1st century BC. Now in the Hermitage Museum,
Saint Petersburg.
When Lesley Del Rio goes to the library to do her college math homework, she often has a study buddy: her precocious 8-year-old son, Leo.
Del Rio is working on her associate degree; Leo is working on third grade.
And Del Rio is not alone: More than 1 in 5 college students in the U.S. are raising kids. That’s more than 4 million undergraduates, and they are disproportionately women and people of color. Of those students, more than half will leave school without getting a degree.
That’s all according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog. The report, first obtained by NPR, found that schools often aren’t giving student parents information that could help them access untapped federal money to pay for child care.
Melissa Emrey-Arras, who led the GAO’s review, says, “These parents have a lot going on in their lives in terms of school and young children, and we think it’s important to make information easily available for them about financial aid options so that they can make choices that will help them.”
Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington state Democrat and ranking member of the Senate education committee, said in a statement that the report, “shows there are simple steps that colleges and the [U.S.] Department of Education can take to better inform student parents of their financial aid options. The lack of affordable, high-quality child care shouldn’t hold anyone back from achieving their dreams.”
Access to child care is one of the biggest barriers student parents face. For Del Rio, who works full time, attending night classes at her community college presented a real challenge. “Who’s gonna take care of my child then?” she recalls thinking. “There isn’t child care open until 10 p.m.”
In 1952 the Cuyahoga River was so badly choked with oil and other pollutants that the water literally caught on fire. It happened again in 1969. The image of a flaming river so horrified people that it is often credited with inspiring the Clean Water Act.
When cleanup efforts began, 100% of the soil dredged from the river was highly polluted. Nearly the only thing that could be found living in the water was invasive carp.
Yet only fifty years later, the same river now hosts a variety of fish, birds, bugs, and other wildlife. People use the river for picnics and whitewater kayaking, and it has just this year been declared clean enough to eat fish from again.
Along with cleaning pollutants from the river and surrounding earth, environmentalists also removed six dams to increase oxygenation and revive fish populations. Work on healing the river continues, but the Cuyahoga has come a long way from the dead, burning waterway it was only fifty years ago.
We often hear that nature can be fragile, but we must remember that nature can also be shockingly resilient. When we clean and restore polluted areas, nature will eagerly return to recolonize them. All we have to do is get out of the way.
Maatkare Mutemhat was the daughter of the high priest
Pinedjem I, who seems to have given her the birth name of Queen Hatshepsut; he called his son, Menkheperre, after the great king, Thutmose III.
Maatkare Mutemhat held the position of “God’s Wife of Amun,” so she was considered to be the female head of the priesthood of Amun at Karnak, and therefore had almost the same status as a queen.
Her mummy was found with other mummies of members of her family in the Deir el-Bahari cache (“DB320”). Hers was the earliest mummy of her period to have been stuffed to present a life-like appearance. The body was internally packed and molded into the shape of the living queen and the face was stuffed with mud and painted with yellow ocher. She had dark hair and her nails had been tied with string to prevent them from falling off.
Although she was “God’s Wife of Amun” and was supposed to be a virgin, early examiners believed that her mummy had been prepared as though she was pregnant, with extra padding in her abdomen. A small mummy was found in her coffin that they supposed to be a stillborn child, however, x-rays have since shown the small mummy to be that of a baboon.
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26200
For as long as anyone can remember, the FBI has infiltrated radical
communities in hopes of framing people on criminal charges. This has
intensified in anarchist circles over the past few years. A handful of
unfortunates now languish in prison, serving up to decades for actions
they never carried out and probably would never have even considered
were it not for the efforts of agents provocateurs. How does the
government choose who to target? What factors put people at risk? Most
importantly, what can we do to protect ourselves and each other?
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