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Some Catholic bishops question gov't health care | abcactionnews.com
Source: ABC Action News

About a half dozen U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are using terms like "socialization" and "monopolization" in adding their voices to the health care debate.

Question: Should We 'Socialize' Education? POLL

What do you think? I could not tell you if ever education was completely free in Western culture. Some civilization on this planet made education free for all its citizens. Of course, these civilizations were probably small city-states.

Sex and Relationships
Source: AlterNet.org

"We see sex as something we do with someone else," Winston says, "we see it as something outside ourselves. But sexual energy is the life force," and shouldn't be compartmentalized.

Dodd Says Short-Term Bank Takeovers May Be Necessary
Source: Bloomberg.com

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said banks may have to be nationalized for "a short time" to help lenders including Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. survive the worst economic slump in 75 years.

WKRP in Winnipeg: Putting People to Work
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The Salvation Army's WKRP Program brings employment skills to those who have none

Health Care Reform is On
Source: OpenCongress

In a sign that a major health care reform is coming in 2009, on Wednesday Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, released a healthcare reform blueprint that goes even further than  …

Tight CREDIT?????

Is anyone buying this??? I have gotten offers to buy cars on credit, to increase my equity line on my home and encouraged to buy furniture with nothing down and no payments for 2 years. There is no tight credit anywhere that I can see.

Unwanted Sexual Contact, in Context
Source: Inside Higher Ed

For both female and male students, unwanted sexual contact occurs where they live, at social events, and often when the perpetrator and victim have been drinking.

Why Chatter Matters- Can Making Small Talk Provide Big Advantages?
Source: Chicago Tribune

Chitchat, idle banter, cocktail party conversation -- small talk is ubiquitous. It's a staple of happy hours, sure, but it also has invoked in job interviews and at networking functions. It's a necessary step toward talking a bigger game.

Study - Loneliness can cause genetic changes leading to illnesses such as cancer
Source: ScienceLine

This new study and its findings will be no surprise to anyone who understands the importance of a healthy mind and its function in keeping a healthy body.

Public Schools Backbone of the Nation
Source: The Seminal

I came to appreciate the socialization I had undergone in public grammar school. In college we heard a lot about "diversity,"... But there was relatively little economic diversity.

Female Academic Performance Lies in the (Gender) Balance
Source: psychologicalscience.org

While previous research offers biological and socialization explanations for differences in the performance and representation of men and women in these fields [math, science, and engineering], Stanford psychologists, Mary Murphy and Claude Steele argue that the organization of M …

Are you a Good Dog Owner?
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Taking care of your dogs needs is more than just giving him food and water. Dogs are suffer from boredom, lack of exercise, lack of socialization and many other issues we associate with people.

Are We Raising Slutz?
Source: workerette.com

This author asks some very relevant questions regarding whether or not the dolls and other influences are teaching our daughters to be oversexed and pointed out that parents don't have to buy what retailers are selling.

HSLDA | National Publication tells Doctors: 'Monitor Socialization in Homeschool Patients'
Source: hslda.org

The November, 2006, article was entitled "What you need to learn about homeschooling." After a skeptical but not wholly unfavorable discussion of homeschooling, the concluding paragraph urged doctors to be "vigilant" in "monitoring" the socialization of their homescho …

Are iPods shrinking the British vocabulary?
Source: Ars Technica

A new study finds that most British teens don't have a large vocabulary—12,682 words. By comparison, those aged 25 to 34 know more than 21,000 words.

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