When Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek was 14 years old, she left South Sudan in the heat of civil war. Her family, fleeing both rebel and government forces, trekked through the bush for months, leading to her father's leg infection, paralysis and death. ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 10:46PM
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No Somali mother should have to choose which child to pick up and feed, and which toddler to lay down and "leave him behind to his God on the road." The world has food and resources enough that no parent should be forced to face such a "Sophie's Cho ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 10:39PM
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According to the AFP, on July 15, 2010, a 19-year-old man was bitten by a vampire bat in Michoacan, Mexico. Ten days later, the migrant farm worker left for the U.S. to pick sugar cane at a Louisiana plantation. He fell sick, presenting symptoms of f ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 7:20PM
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Bert and Ernie will not be getting married. To each other, or anyone else.
The demands of a petition calling for Bert and Ernie to get married, which has become an internet sensation in the last few years, has been gently denied by the Sesame St ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 7:06PM
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TORONTO - The CN Tower's latest attraction, which opens to the public on Monday, allows those with nerves of steel to walk on the edge -- literally. EdgeWalk lets thrill-seekers walk hands free along a 1.5-metre-wide ledge around the top of the tower ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 5:41PM
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The Capture of the Green River Killer is a 2008 2-part TV movie that first aired on Lifetime Television and tells the story of the Green River killer serial murders between 1982 and 1998. The film is based on the true story of serial murderer Gary Ri ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 5:51AM
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)—Recognized for his basketball talents, Dennis Rodman instead talked about his personal shortcomings. He hasn’t been a very good husband or father. His relationship with his mother has been strained. But he had four men he cou ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2011 at 4:44AM
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Isaiah 54:17
The Message (MSG)
If anyone attacks you,
don't for a moment suppose that I sent them,
And if any should attack,
nothing will come of it.
I create the blacksmith
who fires up his forge
and makes a weapon designe ...
Posted Saturday, August 13th 2011 at 6:21AM
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I'm a former Member of Congress. If more than 100,000 of us sign this petition, I will go to Washington, DC, myself, and I will deliver it personally to the White House.
-Alan
We Are Against Any and Every Cut to Social Security, Medicare and ...
Posted Saturday, August 13th 2011 at 6:04AM
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, it was an expected and accepted practice to assume a husband's surname. Any deviation from that was viewed with suspicion. After all, it's part of the marriage contract to give up references to a previous life...or ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 7:00PM
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Jurors on July 22 convicted Sowell of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The
convictions ended a saga that began in October 2009 with the discovery of the first two victims' remai ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 6:08PM
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Nationwide (August 10, 2011) -- Late last year, the National Low Income Housing Authority launched their web site (www.LowIncome.org) as a free online tool to help people better understand and locate low income housing. With over 50,000 properties li ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 6:01PM
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A step toward a new possible treatment for leukemia, one that uses patients’ own immune cells to target and destroy cancer is getting a lot of media attention. It should be noted, however, that the therapy, however promising, has been tested in only ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 5:47PM
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Med/surg nurses should be an integral part of hospital Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), but instead often relinquish care of the patient to this expert team when they arrive at the bedside. The RRT focuses on preventing future deterioration of the patie ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 5:41PM
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The internets were roaring this weekend as news released of Big Boi’s drug arrest in Miami. Amongst his collection of illegal substances was viagara, which is a controlled substance. While folks on my social networks were busy cracking jokes about Bi ...
Posted Friday, August 12th 2011 at 2:28AM
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While Men Slept…
It’s just a matter of time till the gently falling flakes accumulates and cause an avalanche. Just a matter of time till the collection of droplets causes the dam to break, or the river to overflow its banks. Only a matter of time ...
Posted Thursday, August 11th 2011 at 1:47AM
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Section A: Praise and worship (12am-12.20 -1am)
Sing songs of praise and hymns to the Lord.
Section B: Bible study (12.20am-12.40am)
Psalm 10
Proverbs 18:10 The Name of the LORD is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe.
Sec ...
Posted Thursday, August 11th 2011 at 1:39AM
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If you teach your student common prefixes, you will quickly expand his ability to spell and read longer words.
Here are five things your learner needs to know about prefixes:
1.Prefixes are word parts like pre- and un- which are added in front ...
Posted Tuesday, August 9th 2011 at 2:42AM
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A Polish woman will step off an airplane in Chicago on Monday afternoon with a legal visa in her hand, coming back to live in the United States four years after her deportation sundered her family, in a rare case of the return of an immigrant who was ...
Posted Tuesday, August 9th 2011 at 1:19AM
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If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent.
Chances are just that good that, in spite of anything you do, little Oliver or Abigail won’t end up a doctor or lawyer ...
Posted Tuesday, August 9th 2011 at 12:16AM
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(The NY Times) The hotel housekeeper who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her sued him in State Supreme Court in the Bronx on Monday, seeking unspecified damages for an attack that she said “humiliated, degraded, violated and ...
Posted Monday, August 8th 2011 at 11:49PM
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Every believer has been given a measure of faith. In order to see the promises of God come to pass in your life, you have to give your faith a voice. You must declare what God says about you in His Word. Those seeds of faith inside you are activated ...
Posted Monday, August 8th 2011 at 3:57PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Heat stroke is a form of hyperthermia, where the body’s temperature is abnormally high (usually 104 F or higher). Unlike other heat-related injuries, such as heat cramps and heat exhaustion, heat stroke is a true medical emergenc ...
Posted Monday, August 8th 2011 at 3:47PM
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