In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names-and opened their pocketbooks-in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than...

Los niños necesitan moverse y jugar con libertad. Y, en este proceso, los adultos tenemos un papel muy importante: debemos ofrecerles las condiciones óptimas para que su potencial de juego y movimiento pueda desarrollarse con plenitud. ¿Cómo debemos poner al niño cuando todavía no puede moverse con autonomía? ¿Tenemos que jugar con él, o eso le hace más dependiente? ¿Debemos preocuparnos si empieza a caminar más tarde que los otros niños?...

Ethics For Life-98 crucial lessons for everyone - is a moral awareness book everyone need to read.The desire of most people today is to live in a safe, warm and unifying environment, which is good! But not many realise we all have our parts to play to achieve this feat.In this age, we are witnessing a severe moral decadence in our society. For example, children are no longer taught etiquette at home, and adults are just as uncivil in thier daily conducts-causing...

Los trastornos del estado del ánimo son una enfermedad cada vez más común, al punto que deben incluirse dentro de los programas de prevención y salud pública. Estas dolencias permanecen ocultas por las personas que las sufren debido a la desinformación y a los mitos y prejuicios que se tejen en torno a ellas. La depresión suele confundirse con síntomas de variadas enfermedades que en realidad no tienen un origen orgánico, por eso es tan importante...

Mami surprises Alma with a pair of brand-new soccer cleats. Now Alma must choose: play her best soccer game and get her AMAZING new shoes dirty or protect her cleats by staying on the sidelines. Then, stuck inside on a beautiful day, Alma, Rafia and André make up a new game called Star Ball. It's a BLAST at first, but her friends don't want to play anymore when Alma keeps changing the rules.

After rescuing Junior's paper tube tower from collapsing, Alma decides to open her own traveling fix-it business: Alma's Rescue Repair! But Alma can only carry so much in her toolbelt and running back home for fix-it items is exhausting. Then, when Howard tells Junior he can't play water tag, Alma must figure out how to make her brother feel better and how to tell Howard how she feels.

When Mami's former music student, Sonny Soto, invites Alma's family to his big concert, Alma excitedly invites her friends to come along without asking first. Then, When Alma gets creeped out by a bearded dragon, she realizes that with enough information, it's not as scary as she thought.

When Chacho chews holes in the socks that Alma was planning to donate for the Community Center's Bomba Drum Fundraiser, she has to figure out a way to transform the holey mess into a new success. Then, Alma offers to record Papi's animal show while he's busy and recruits her friends and their talented pets to help. But Alma keeps messing up on the camera. Will this week's show be cancelled?