Huffington Magazine Issue 3-4 | Page 12

Enter GALAPAGOS NATIONAL PARK/DAPD (LONESOME GEORGE); AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE (CHENEY) 2 3 4 POINTERS SCHOOL POLICY LEAVES KIDS BURNED HUFFINGTON 07.01-08.12 A Washington state mom is furious that her daughters were badly sunburned after their school prevented them from applying sunscreen during a five-hour field day. Jesse Michener says that Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, experienced “hurts-to-look-at burns” because the school has a policy against allowing children to apply sunscreen without a doctor’s note. When she posted photos of the girls’ red faces on her blog, parents across the country shared her outrage over similar school policies. “They will heal this week, but long term effects are yet to be seen,” Michener told The Huffington Post. LONESOME GEORGE DIES AT 100 A giant tortoise named Lonesome George, a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands and the last surviving tortoise from the island La Pinta, was found dead at the Galapagos National Park. George was estimated to be 100 years old, but he never managed to procreate. His name resulted from a series of unsuccessful attempts to get him to mate with female tortoises of a different Galapagos subspecies. MARY CHENEY GETS MARRIED The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Mary, and her partner, Heather Poe, were married in Washington, D.C. “Very happy to announce that as of this morning, Heather and I are legally married (at least in DC). 20 years to the day after our first date,” Cheney, who has two children with Poe, wrote on her Facebook page. Dick Cheney publicly endorsed gay marriage in 2009, but while in office he said he believed the issue should be left to the states.