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Sharon:
Hey M.
It is amazing what you have created here in the last time!
I am impressed by so many powerful women!
Lumière:
--- Quote from: Sharon on January 21, 2009, 05:18:57 pm ---Hey M.
It is amazing what you have created here in the last time!
I am impressed by so many powerful women!
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Cheers S.
I was beginning to feel like I was talking to myself up in here. :)
Good to see you passing this way, bud.
~M :-*
Brown Eyes:
Heya M! Thank you sooooooooooooooo much for keeping this wonderful thread so active! I'm thoroughly enjoying all your posts to this thread!!
:D
I know Anne Hathaway is already on this thread, way, way back there... But, in honor of her Oscar nomination today, I thought I'd add her here again.
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ifyoucantfixit:
Michelle Obama
First Lady of the United States
Born January 17, 1964 (1964-01-17) (age 45
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the current First Lady of the United States, and the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States Barack Obama.[1] She is the first African American First Lady.
She was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the law firm Sidley Austin, and subsequently worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Michelle Obama is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. She met Barack Obama when he joined Sidley Austin. After his election to the U.S. Senate, the Obama family continued to live on Chicago's South Side, choosing to remain there rather than moving to Washington, D.C.
Michelle Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois to Fraser Robinson III,[2] a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson, a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store.[3] Michelle can trace her roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South; her paternal great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, was an American slave in the state of South Carolina,[4][5] where some of her family still reside.[6][7] She grew up on Euclid Avenue in the South Shore community area of Chicago,[3][8][9] and was raised in a conventional two-parent home.[10] The family ate meals together and also entertained together as a family by playing games such as Monopoly and by reading.[11] She and her brother, Craig (who is 21 months older), skipped the second grade. By sixth grade, Michelle joined a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School (later renamed Bouchet Academy).[12] She attended Whitney Young High School, Chicago's first magnet high school, where she was on the honor roll four years, took advanced placement classes, was a member of the National Honor Society and served as student council treasurer.[3] The round trip commute from her South Side home to the Near West Side took three hours out of her day.[13] She was a high school classmate of Santita Jackson, the daughter of Jesse Jackson and sister of Jesse Jackson, Jr.[11] She graduated from high school in 1981 as salutatorian,[13][14] and went on to major in sociology and minor in African American studies at Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985.
Lumière:
Great to see some activity in this thread again. :)
--- Quote from: Lumière on January 12, 2009, 02:01:33 pm ---African Herstories series contd..
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Dora N. Akunyili
She is the former Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
of Nigeria and current (since December 17,2008) Nigerian Minister of Information.
She is a pharmacist, professor and governmental administrator who has gained international recognition
and won hundreds of awards for her work in pharmacology, public health and human rights.
Since Akunyili took over leadership of NAFDAC, she has established as a top priority the eradication
of counterfeit drugs and unsafe food.[1] Before Akunyili assumed duty, Nigeria became a place where fake
and substandard foods and drugs were being dumped without any form of regulations.
She became angry because “so many of (her) countrymen and women (were) fighting killer diseases like malaria
and tuberculosis with little more than sugar syrup and chalk tablets, cynically packaged to look like the real thing.” [wikip]
She has faced considerable risk to her personal safety in order to combat the issue of fake drugs.
In a culture steeped in corruption, she has not had an easy ride. She built a new team of female inspectors
and pharmacists (she believes most men are too easily tempted by bribes) and started to prosecute importers of fake drugs.
When the public saw the dragons she was slaying, she may have become Nigeria's uncrowned queen,
but the counterfeiters fought back. They burnt down Nafdac's offices and threatened to kill her and her children.
When she stood firm, they shot her in her car. The bullet grazed her skull but she survived.
"Eradication of counterfeit drugs should be treated as an international health emergency," she says.
She believes that raising public awareness has produced dramatic results in Nigeria and urges other nations to be more open. [news.bbc.co.uk]
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