| The CNN Wire: Thursday, Nov. 22
5 dead in Indian explosions (CNN) -- Three blasts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday have killed at least five people, CNN-IBN TV reported. The blasts detonated in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. (Posted 3:13 a.m.) Bombing at Baghdad pet market kills 13, wounds 58 BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Thirteen people were killed and 58 others were wounded on Friday when a bomb tore through a pet market in central Baghdad, Iraq's Interior Ministry said. Four police and 10 children were among the wounded in the bombing of the popular Al-Ghazl market, which was packed on Friday -- as it normally is on the weekly Muslim holy day. (Posted 3 a.m.) Bombing at Baghdad pet market kills 8, wounds 50 BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded on Friday when a bomb tore through a pet market in central Baghdad, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
DARE exits Mason City schools
MASON CITY — After more than 20 years as part of the fifth-grade curriculum, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is gone from Mason City public schools.The program was suspended five weeks ago when the officer teaching the course was placed on medical leave.The absence left the district with a choice: Use one of its two school resource officers to teach the program or discontinue the program. All of the officers are employees of the Mason City Police Department.Ultimately, said Superintendent of Schools Keith Sersland, choosing to keep the resource officers’ schedules intact was more important.Officer Larry Carroll is located at Mason City High School and John Adams Middle School while Officer Steve Shrader is at Roosevelt Middle School and is also available at the elementary level.Sersland said administrators wanted to use resources as wisely as possible.
Anholt: Countries Must Earn Better Images through Smart Policy
Nation branding, the business of applying corporate marketing theory to countries, has only existed as such for a decade. Simon Anholt, a specialist who advises countries on their national brands and edits a journal on place branding, first used the term "nation branding" academically in an article (PDF) published in the Journal of Brand Management in 1998. Since then, consulting practices advising countries on ways to improve their national brand image have increased rapidly. Anholt says, however, there is major confusion over how countries can and cannot effectively change their images. He says efforts to use straightforward brand marketing like advertising to change overall perceptions of a country are "utterly futile" and encourages a more organic process in which countries change their policy, in a coordinated manner, to earn a stronger brand.
UQ Hosts Conference On Public Health Nutrition, Australia
The impact of climate change on health and the link between socio-economic status and food choices will be some of the topics discussed by the world's leading public health nutritionists meeting in Brisbane this week.
The University of Queensland is hosting the Australia Public Health Nutrition Academic Collaboration (APHNAC) conference (November 29-30) which will examine the imperatives driving change in public health nutrition, including the obesity epidemic, and explore the responses required by public health nutrition in relation to changing political, socio-economic and environmental priorities, including climate change.
APHNAC Chair, Associate Professor John Coveney, said the conference would highlight key issues that affect how the way food policy is developed and food choices are made.
More than 100 Buddhist monks march in Myanmar for first time since crackdown
YANGON, Myanmar - Two monks in Myanmar say more than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in a northern region of the country for nearly an hour Wednesday The march marked the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters The monks in Pakokku made no political statements and shouted no slogans, but their march was meant as a sign of support for the earlier, anti-government rallies led by monks in many of Myanmar's cities in September. Those demonstrations were crushed when troops fired on protesters Sept. 27-28 in a crackdown that left at least 20 people dead by the government's count. Opposition groups say as many as 200 people may have been killed. The crackdown by Myanmar's Junta government drew considerable international criticism.
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