Happy New Year!

The U.S. WHP wishes everyone a healthy and prosperous new year! Happy 2008!

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MSN's Most Influential Women of 2007

MSN has published their Most Influential Women of 2007 list! Click here to see the article which highlights several girls and women, including Miley Cyrus and J.K. Rowling.

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Following the '08 Primary Elections!

Who will win the 2008 primary election in the U.S.? Follow the major presidential-hopefuls and their campaigns by checking out these web sources:
Scholastic Kids News Campaign News
FactMonster Campaign 2008
BBC News "2008 Election: Main Contenders"
Yahoo! News "Election '08"
Congress.org Election 2008: Canidates and Information

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Benazir Bhutto

Today, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, age 54, was assassinated at a rally in Rawalpindi. She was shot in the neck, and a bomb exploded. The assasin, who is unidentified as of now, was also killed in the bomb explosion. Bhutto served as PM from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996. She was the first female national leader in the Middle East.

To find out more, here are a few links:
For information aimed towards kids about earlier conflicts in Pakistan, see these Scholastic Kid's News links: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748268, http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748369, and http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748476.
And an article by the BBC about the assassination: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161590.stm.

This is a sad day for everyone: the violence hasn't solved anything, and the loss of a strong woman like Bhutto is very upsetting.

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Jane Austen

Happy birthday to famed British author Jane Austen, who wrote many books including Pride and Predjudice, Northanger Abbey and Emma!

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Happy Birthday, Tracy Austin!

Happy Birthday to Tracy Austin! Tracy's the youngest tennis player ever to win a professional tournament (at 14, she won the 1977 Avon Futures), and, in 1992, the youngest to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Check out her full bio here.

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FactMonster's "Women of Influence" page

Check out this page from FactMonster.com with dozens of articles and quizzes about women of influence: in congress, winning the Pulitzer Prize, influencing religion, and other information. Also lists famous firsts by American Women. See it all here: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768438.html.

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You go, girls!

Check out this newspiece from Scholastic: http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748500. This is an inspiring story about girls making headway into math and science careers and research. "For the first time in the history of the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, girls walked away with top honors in both individual and team categories." Three girls: (all high school seniors) Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff of New York and Isha Himani Jain of Pennsylvania. The kids did science projects about drub-resistant tuberculosis and bone growth. Read the article for more details! Congratulations, girls!

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to singers/actresses Mary Martin and Bette Midler ! Also today in history was when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man (1955).

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