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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Source: Date: 01 Oct 2008 Feature - Hepatitis afflicts Ugandans returning after warBy Jack Kimball MUCWINI, Uganda, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A medic gently lifts the eyelids of six-year-old Peter Morris Opoka at a clinic in a camp for people displaced by two decades of war in Uganda. The yellowish hue of Opoka's eyes gives away the presence of the highly infectious Hepatitis E virus, which has...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
... boxes for the remainder of the game. Coaches' boxes were first mandated in 1886, according to Peter Morris in "A Game of Inches." Before that, some coaches planted themselves next to the catcher, all the better to question his parentage and provide other distractions.Q: Richard V. Gidner of Renton asks: "I have been noticing this year that pitchers in relief roles are credited with...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
... ethos for addressing men's health and roll it out to all organisations across Northern Ireland." Peter Morris, BT Director of Consumer and Corporate Services commented, "BT is committed to supporting UCF through its Man Alive! campaign as the partnership not only raises awareness of men's health, but it also supports BT's employee health and wellbeing programme. "Employee health is...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Photo by Peter Morris, from The Age Australia’s Manly Council is striving to wean its residents and tourist visitors off bottled water. After Bondi Beach, Manly is possibly Australia’s most well known beach suburb and thus attracts a plethora of visitors who often cross Sydney Harbour by ferry to get there. However being such a drawcard has its downsides, like the sheer volume of single-use,...
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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... installed six filtered water fountains along the beach for its residents. Next week town Mayor Peter Macdonald and Bottle Water Alliance leader John Dee will push for similar action within other Australian Councils. According to The Age Australians spent AUD$431 million on bottled water last year. Although filtered water fountains may have higher maintenance costs, filtered water company...
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
... a Saturday evening banquet, and opportunities for afternoon “field research.” Keynote Speaker: Peter Morris Peter Morris’s name is familiar to baseball scholars everywhere. His books include Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan, a study of the game from 1840 to 1875 (winner of the 2004 Seymour Medal and a Michigan Notable Book), and the two-volume A Game of Inches:...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... issued a rule requiring players to bring their gloves into the dugouts in November of 1953. Peter Morris in "A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations that Shaped Baseball" reports that the impetus for the rule may well have been provided by a 1952 game in which Chicago White Sox shortstop Sam Dente tripped over the glove of his opposing fielder on the Washington Senators....
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Fast track … Barry Garnham, a supporter of rail privatisation, is still pushing the Western FastRail proposal.Photo: Peter Morris
