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Nearly 2 million U.S. children ages 12 to 19 have a pre-diabetic condition
About 20 million Americans have diabetes, most of them adults with type 2 diabetes, which impairs the body's ability to properly use the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin. This form is strongly linked to being overweight and inactive.
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Emergency Care Needed For U.S. Emergency Rooms
In our current system, patients are treated but doctors and hospitals are not paid to treat them. This has resulted in massive closures of emergency rooms which means that the emergency rooms that are still open become flooded with those in need. So much for a market- based health care system.
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French rioting spurs British haughtiness, introspection
Gallagher acknowledges that some Britons view the arson attacks as just deserts for an arrogant France. "There is a bit of the English saying to the French, 'See what's happening now?' " However, he says, "There shouldn't be any glee."
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The Burning Of Southern Churches Is Much More Than A Terrible Prank
According to investigators, the suspects had gone deer hunting in the piney woods south of Birmingham, but that pursuit, it seems, didn't offer enough pleasure. The first fires, officials say, were “a joke that got out of hand.”
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Bad News For The Newspaper Industry And Their Readers
The new paradox of journalism is more outlets are covering fewer stories. As the number of news outlets grows, generally the audiences of each one shrinks, and news organizations cut back on resources.
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Killer Herpes Is Destroying What's Left Of Coral Reefs
A herpes outbreak can be a real pain for humans but for the fragile coral reefs it can kill. Just another way we humans are finishing off the planet
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Why is France burning? The rebellion of a lost generation
It is important to step back and remember that the ghettos where festering resentment has now burst into flames were created as a matter of industrial policy by the French state.
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Disgraced Author Kaavya Viswanathan Is Not Solely to Blame
Kaavya Viswanathan was used. In this age of packaged stars, packaged news, packaged scandals, packaged warfare and packaged bestsellers, Viswanathan was a perfect blank slate for the star-maker machinery: a young, bright female of color who showed some sparks of talent.
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Van Gogh's Unending Struggle -- In His Own Words
"Now, I am going to have to change my tactics and try my very best to get my work sold."
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Midlife Boomers Facing Second Adolescence, My Generation Survey Reveals
Baby boomers feel that their youth is fading. When Americans hit 45, the majority say they stop looking young...
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Terrence Malick -- A Poet in Hollywood
In 1978, Malick was at the peak of his creativity and power when he stunned Hollywood by suddenly disappearing...
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Peter O'Toole is T. E. Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O'Toole is a man of many contradictions. Shot to sudden stardom by his first major film role, he has struggled to achieve such greatness again.
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World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course…
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Is It The End Of Television As We Know It?
Scariest of all for the networks, however, is the idea that many people are now making their own television schedules.
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The Health Insurance Industry Is A Nightmare For Most Americans
The health insurance industry scares the average person more than the threat of terrorism - and it should.
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Black Men Continue To Struggle And Suffer In America Says New Study
In response to the worsening situation for young black men, a growing number of programs are placing as much importance on teaching life skills — like parenting, conflict resolution and character building — as they are on teaching job skills.
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Doctor Resorts To Making Bracelets To Help Uninsured Patients
The U.S. health-care system is so dysfunctional, so unbalanced, that we have come as a nation to holding garage sales and charity breakfasts to help a family with medical expenses.
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State Of Our Emergency For U.S. Emergency Rooms
Even getting to the emergency room is a gamble, the report found, because the emergency medical services system--including ambulances and paramedics --is fragmented. How well-trained and prompt local paramedics are varies greatly; there are no nationwide standards. Many ambulance services cannot effectively communicate with hospitals or other first responders because they use radio equipment from the 1970s.
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Airline Crisis Might Turn Out To Be For The Best
And when the crap is gone -crap being airlines that can't compete -there will be fewer carriers carrying fewer people.
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Comcast Cheats The Public Out Of Seats At Vital Net Neutrality Hearing
They're at it again. Comcast is employing slimy, dirty tricks to keep the public from participating in Net Neutrality hearings
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Mexico's forbidden songs
"I asked one of the most well known, Reynaldo Martinez, if he wrote corridos for hire. He said 'No, but sometimes someone who likes one of my songs might give me a Land Rover.'
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Why Your Mind Wanders More Often Than You Think
Mainstream psychology hasn't paid much attention to this common mental habit. But a spate of new studies is chipping away at its mysteries
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Bigoted Pastor John Hagee Curses America And Endorses John McCain
The media's obsession with vitriolic pastors who are associated with presidential candidates only extends as far as Jeremiah Wright. But pastor John Hagee endorses McCain, curses America, Jews, Catholics but gets no coverage.
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The Actual 2002 Obama Speech That Clinton Keeps Mentioning
The Democrats continue to duke it out. Clinton keeps referring disparagingly to "the speech Sen. Obama gave in 2002". Well, here it is
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Debate Or Debacle? ABC Sinks To A New Low
They called it a debate but it was really just an infotainment show. Obviously the American Media is dead as a doornail.
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Living at the mercy of the Sun
The city's leading skin specialist, Dr Jaime Abaca, has studied the rates of skin cancer and has concluded that of all reported cases, the worst kind, malignant melanoma, is found in three times as many people as in other parts of the world.
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The Danger Of Genetically Modified Crops Is Beginning To Show
This all points to one startling fact; the ground breaking new bio-tech industry which was pitched as being controlled and regulated, is fast gaining its own illegal momentum and running out of control. This is made scarier by the fact that the father of the industry is Monsanto, the same company that famously produced the insufficiently tested and subsequently disastrous Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
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The Rescue Of Brazilian Baby Contrasts With Plight Of Brazil's Street Kids
In Brazil, the fortuitous, almost mythical rescue of a baby girl who had been put in a plastic bag and dumped in a lake is one of those uplifting stories that keeps us all going.
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Why More Americans Think Marriage Is A Luxury
As far as marriage with children is concerned, the post-World War II version of normal began to fall apart around 1970.
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Soon Science Will Tell If You're Naughty Or Nice
The more we learn about how the brain operates, the more predictable human beings seem to become.
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Customers Will Prevail Over Record Industry Eventually
What is it that the recording industry really gained when it slapped Jammie Thomas with a $222,000 fine? They will lose in the long run.
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Is Your Preschooler Depressed?
Is the increase in depression because children are receiving less support than ever, as more and more is asked of them at ever-younger ages?...
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TV Was Mummified Man's Only Companion
A month before the gruesome discovery, neighbors at a get together questioned why they had not seen him in a while
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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall Who Is The Fairest Elephant Of All?
Awareness can be tested by studying whether the animal recognizes itself in a mirror. Only humans, apes and, more recently, dolphins, have been shown to recognize that the image in the mirror is of themselves.
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Time To Make Sacrifices To Keep The Internet Free!
The point is that we are going to have to make sacrifices of conveniences in order to get our point across.
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Why Remy The Rat Rules
There were many predictions that Pixar just couldn't pull off making a hit out of a French rat in a kitchen. How wrong they all were
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Once Again - Apes Show They Have Mental Abilities Equal To Humans
To often humans have painted themselves superior to even the most intelligent animal. However, new studies are starting to erode that view
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Is Hip-Hop Getting A Bad Rap?
According to influential rap businessman Russell Simmons, the world of hip-hop should watch its words.
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Global Cancer Rates by 2020
In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they arent telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.
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The Mystery Of The Great Pyramids From The Inside Out
Houdin, 56, brushed aside concerns about the popular curse which is supposed to punish those who penetrate the secrets of the pyramids,
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Linday Lohan's Non-Stop Partying Gets A Yawn In Hollywood
Lindsay Lohan is just the lastest addict to be a star. If you're young and hot in Hollywood it doesn't matter how messed up you are.
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Remembering Heath
More thoughts and reflections about the short life and impressive career of Heath Ledger.
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The American Media - Self- Hating Liberal Or Conservative Mouthpiece?
When media giants like The New York Times, Newsweek and CNN hire notorious propagandists like William Kristol, Karl Rove and Tony Snow are they doing it to get conservative cred?
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Here's The Skinny On Being Skinny
Milan fashion-industry heavyweights require models to obtain a license issued by a panel of experts before being allowed to walk the runway
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No One Would Admit to Being Overpaid
And while it's easy to argue chief executives, lawyers and movie stars are overpaid, reality is not that cut and dried.
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The Czech "Baby Box" Is Meant To Save The Lives Of Infants
In the last five years, eleven unwanted newborn children have been killed by their parents in the Czech Republic. And it is cases like those, Ludvik Hess says, that the baby boxes - one in Prague and another one in Brno - are intended to prevent.
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The Tangled Tale Of Ex-Russian Spy Alexander V. Litvinenko
After Mr. Litvinenko’s death, sketchy facts and abundant speculation unfolded like some lost chapter of the cold war.
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A Tribute To The Talented And Good-Hearted Heath Ledger
The tragic death of 28 year old actor Heath Ledger has had a heavy impact on the many who knew and loved him both as a person and as an extremely talented young actor
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"Evolution Sunday" Shows Compatibility Between Christianity And Evolution
Darwin's theory holds that all life on Earth, including humans, shares common ancestry and developed over millions of years through the mechanisms of natural selection and random mutation.
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Art vs. Entertainment
Entertainment is terrified of losing you, and is willing to change itself to be more to your taste. Art doesn't give a fuck whether it loses you -- if you're lost, that's your problem.
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Are We Really Better Off? Ask the Children
We want it all and we want it now. Unfortunately, this self-centered trend has taken a horrible toll on our children...
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Big Bear Bailout Is Tied To The Spitzer Scandal
It's worse than you think. Not only is the economy in a tailspin due to systemic greed but the government is in on the whole thing
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U.S. Health Care System Is Deadly
To give you a flavor of the book, consider this excerpt that analyzes the health care crisis - a particularly newsworthy issue considering the recent headlines about Massachusetts moving toward a universal health care system.
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Remembering the Final Speech Of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King's incredible last speech has the power to move the soul now and forever
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How Music Hallucinations Can Drive You to Distraction
Psychiatrists think that music hallucinations take place when people are deprived of surroundings rich in sounds, become deaf or live in isolation.
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Civil rights movement is fading into history
"As people get older and people pass, it becomes more and more difficult to have that sort of firsthand knowledge"
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The Joy Of Hating Rachael Ray
In the context of anti-Rachael Rayism, Lane was an early adopter: She founded the group three years ago, when Ray's "30 Minute Meals" was just another show on the Food Network.
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Is The End In Sight For Lindsay Lohan's Career?
Lindsay has officially caused trouble on sets, been declared nearly uninsurable, pulled out of films and gained a reputation for being an erratic, substance abusing mess.
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How Long Will Insurers Call The Shots In Matters Of Life And Death?
The family of Nataline Sarkisyan has turned to the legal system to deal with the terrible loss of their 17 year-old daughter.
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The Eye-Opening World Of Sex And Tech
And then, as our marriage crumbled, my husband introduced me to adult chat. In that venue, where mental connection was everything, I discovered my capacity for sexual pleasure
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Hot Tempers As Rove, Crow And David Argue Over Global Warming
As the debate intensified, Crow tried to calm things down but was drawn into the debate with Rove instead
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Europe's Seas In Great Danger Of Collapse
The core problem is the way that the policy is set up to "balance the needs of the fishing industry and the marine environment". It is an impossible task as the health of one depends on the health of the other. To look after the fishermen, you must look after the fish - not gamble further with biology.
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Jennings' death points to dangers of smoking
John Wayne, Bob Marley, Steve McQueen and Peter Jennings. Each man was among the best in his profession, and each, in his own way, epitomized cool. But the mystique was shattered when they each fell victim to lung cancer
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Workers, Not Employers, Bear The Burden Of Health Care Costs
If health care costs are burdening someone-- as we know they are -- its not so much businesses as it is the average Joe.
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The Wall Between Pink Floyd
On many occasions, when he did show up for a gig, Syd ended up staring off into space while the rest of the band struggled to fill the void.
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Rewards for Poor Behavior
The fashion critics liked Winona's wardrobe during her shoplifting trial - Marc Jacob's hired her for their 2003 advertising campaign.
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An Experience Of "Ecstasy" Described In Detail
When I awoke, I felt somewhat hungover and mentally cloudy. I noticed in the mirror that my eyes were bloodshot and glazed.
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Student Loans Are A Terrible Risk For Borrowers
Most importantly, because student lenders have the full power of the federal government behind them to collect on loans, and because the loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders are less likely to agree to a settlement below the full amount they say is owed.
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The Great Advantages of Being A Teenager
This feeling of immortality will last perhaps into your 20s, then it will vanish as reality sets in.
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Health Care Is Killing Us
This issue is nothing new. The health care delivery system in the U.S. has been troubled for a long time but the problem is now being taken more seriously because businesses and middle-income earners are feeling the pressure which the poor and the self-employed have felt for a long while.
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Singler Payer Healthcare System Is the Cure For What Ails U.S.
Representatives and senators in Washington should have to use the same system my patients and I do were they to vote it in.
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University Stirs Controversy By Offering White Scholarship
Applicants must submit two essays, one describing the applicant's ancestry and one describing "what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American today."
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Depleted Uranium Is Taking The Lives Of More And More U.S. Soldiers
Depleted Uranium is one of the most toxic materials there is. Previously healthy American soldiers who were exposed to it are developing cancer at high rates but the Department Of Defense still won't admit a link.
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Best Of The Worst Tech Quotes 2006
Let's face it. We're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap -- and watch porn
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Paul and Heather McCartney Will Witness Slaughter Of Baby Seals
When Paul and Heather McCartney have their pictures taken with one of these newborn pups, that picture will circle the globe and will appear in millions of magazines and newspapers in hundreds of countries.
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Will Global Warming Bring About The End Of The Human Species?
The fact that Earth’s climate is changing is true. Whether the change is part of a natural cycle and not manmade can (and is) being debated.
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The Sick Enjoyment Of Watching Celebrities Destroy Themselves
Anna Nicole's life fed our society's appetite for sensationalism, celebrity, sleaze and the bizarre behavior of today's famous.
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The Fascination With All That Is "Soprano"
The Sopranos comes to a close with questions about what makes a bad man so good to watch.
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Meet the corporation
It has no conscience. It's pathological. And it's in your neighborhood. How can we stop the juggernaut?
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"Sicko" Is A Prescription For Change
Michael Moore does everyone a great service by advocating for a new health care system in his latest film"Sicko".
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Unbearably Trampy Back To School Clothes
Inappropriately sexualized clothes are being marketed to younger and younger girls. What does that say about our cultural values?
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Actor's Great Career Ends by Shotgun
He had reached a level of pain that he was unable to get beyond.
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Internet Radio Not Dead Yet
Internet streamers said the increases amounted to 30 to 300 percent increases over what they are paying now.
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Did Judas Do As Jesus Asked?
The other apostles pray to a lesser God, Jesus says, and reveals to Judas the "mysteries of the kingdom" of the true God. He asks Judas to help him return to the kingdom, but to do so, Judas must help him abandon his mortal flesh: "You will sacrifice the man that clothes me," Jesus tells Judas, and acknowledges that Judas "will be cursed by the other generations."
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The Enemies of Storytelling Down Through the Ages
The storyteller needs to be aware of the immense superstructure supporting the enemies of storytelling.
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From The Horse's Mouth
Shell's chairman, Lord Oxburgh, hit the front page this week when he told the Guardian that oil- and gas-burning threatens the planet
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Celebrities Making News About Domestic Violence
What does it mean when a company continues to use a known batterer as its celebrity spokesperson?
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Remembering The Forgotten Of Hollywood
Yet rereading the entry on my grandfather in Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia, the final sentence provides a vigorous kick back to reality: "In the 40s he formed his own Harold Young Productions and gradually drifted into obscurity." I've always liked that phrasing by Katz, a lyrical send-off as the character turns his back to the camera.
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Water Will Be The Next Resource That Sparks Global Wars
Tony Juniper, the executive director of Friends of the Earth, said: "The science of global warming is becoming ever more certain about the scale of the problem we have, and now the implications of that for security and politics is beginning to emerge."
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Can the U.S. still compete?
"The truth is that we're mediocre. Other countries are pushing their best and brightest to math and the sciences. And what are we doing?"
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How Being Uninsured Can Kill You
There are tens of thousands of tragic caseswhose lack of insurance stops them from seeking care when they should.
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Over 10 years since the brilliant Nirvana singer, Kurt Cobain, shot himself
In the end, though, no-one could save him from himself.
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How To Destroy A Country From The Inside
It's truly shocking to realize that the worst damage that has been done to America has come from its own government.
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Rock Group Pearl Jam Call For Internet Neutrality After Censored Show
Internet neutraility is becoming more important than ever as the web grows as a democratic form of expression.
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The Strange Question Of Barack Obama's "Blackness"
So, let's put an end to the question, "Is Barack Obama black enough?"
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Pointing A Finger At Aggression
a large part of our personalities and our traits are determined while we're still in the womb
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What Do Sex Toys And Church Service Have In Common?
A devout church organist gets the can for helping cancer survivors rediscover their sexual function.
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Mountain Top Removal: The Hardships Of Life In The Coal Fields Of Appalachia
Those of us living in the coal fields exist in a constant state of terror. Since there is neither vegetation nor topsoil on the mountain to absorb the rainfall, we live in fear when it rains. During a rainstorm, our children go to bed fully clothed, plotting escape routes in case we have to flee in the middle of the night.
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The Controversy Over Repressed Memories Rages On
Over the past two decades, many people have come forward to say they abruptly recovered memories of childhood trauma
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You Won't See This on TV
Television provides an escape from reality not unlike that of drugs or alcohol.
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