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It's Official, She's a Bird Brain
Low IQs in Mercury-Exposed Children Cost Billions
Seeing Coal's Bad Side Up Close
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It's Official, She's a Bird Brain
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| For the second year running, a Tufted titmouse living near her home has been alighting on Janet Fout’s head and “harvesting” strands of her hair for its nest. Janet, OVEC’s co-director, is an avid birder, but this takes the term “bird-brain” to a whole new level! |
Low IQs in Mercury-Exposed Children Cost Billions
The effects of mercury on fetal development are costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year, says a new study. Some 317,000 to 637,000 children born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to unsafe mercury levels in the womb, and many of them sustain diminished IQs, researchers reported in a National Institutes of Health journal.
Seeing Coal's Bad Side Up Close
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| A group of Xavier University students spent their spring break doing service projects in West Virginia. The students met with union miners striking at Massey Energy’s Mammoth mine in Kanawha County, formerly operating as Cannelton under the bankrupt Horizon. Here, at the Catholic Worker Gift of Tears retreat center in Roane County, some of the students pore over the Winds of Change newsletter, after an OVEC staffer presented “Appalachian Treasures,” a PowerPoint presentation on mountaintop removal produced by Appalachian Voices. |
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| For the past several years, OVEC board,
staff and members have joined with the Huntington-Cabell Branch of
the NAACP for the march in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On
Jan. 17, 2005, despite temperatures of 18 degrees F., about 100
people marched through the streets of Huntington, WV, to honor
King’s work and to acknowledge that much remains to be done.
Pictured are an OVEC board member, Marshall professors, and OVEC
staffers. photo by Viv Stockman |
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