Breast- Feeding Protects Against Arthritis (New York Times-Newspaper)

A study in Sweden, suggested that another advantage of breastfeeding is that it reduces the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. The researchers compared about 136 women with rheumatoid arthritis, with 544 healthy women; with similar ages. The researchers found out that the women who breastfeed for 1 to 12 months reduced their risk of arthritis by 25%, and that those who breastfeed for more than year cut their risk in half.

People Making History

Many people in the world make history and aren't recognize their accomplishments. One of the people who made history was Michael Rossman, which died at the age of 68 on May 12, 2008 at his home in Berkeley, California. Rossman fought for campus rights, and was an lifelong community activist. He was also a leader of the Free Speach Movement, who wrote books on politics, society, and education. Another history maker was Arthur W. Burks. Burks was the early computer theorist, which died at the age of 92 on May 14, 2008, at a nursing home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2006 he was credited as the first eletronic digital computer. He hepled design this computer in the 1940s. Irving Rosenthal was also one of many history makers. He was a mentor to journalists, and an "inspiring and exacting teacher to generations of reporters and editors. He was 95 when he died on May 18, 2008, at his home in Great Neck, NY.