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Have We Become Comfortably Numb to Violence and Abuse?

Michelle Renee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Renee

We are bombarded with gruesome images day in and day out. From tweens on up, what we see in the media, in movies and on the Internet is making us numb to it all.

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HIV Adoption: It's Happening

Leslie Goldman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Leslie Goldman

Like many of the two million other children worldwide living with HIV, Sachi, born September 10, 2007, contracted the virus from her birth mother, who was a sex worker in Mysore, India.

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Fixing No Child Left Behind: What Our Schools Really Need

Susan Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Susan Kane

As millions of kids headed back to school this month, many parents, teachers, and administrators had a lot to think about. Things like, will there actually be enough seats in the ballooning classes?

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Making Our Own Mistakes

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michelle Renee

The simple truth is what we label as our own mistakes are really just choices that have led us to this moment in time.

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A Grandmother's Love

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Tian Dayton

The strange timing of Obama's grandmother's death underlines what a grandmother's love is really meant to do; which is to prepare a child for a world that she may never lay eyes on.

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Why Canadian Babies are Safer from Toxins: The Case for Banning BPA

Susan Kane | Posted 11.17.2011

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Susan Kane

We get that more research needs to be done to truly understand the effects of this chemical on our bodies, but that doesn't mean the public should remain the guinea pigs.

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