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Want To Be Happier? You May Need To Move

msn.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Infrastructure, Education, Job Satisfaction, Wealth, States, Personality, Economy, Well-Being, Social Programs, Satisfaction, Tolerance, Moving, Cambridge, Happiness, Living News

New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average....

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Meatless Monday: Happy World Pasta Day -- Guess What's for Dinner?

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Marco Polo, Spaetzle, Pasta, Liberia, Tolerance, China, Lapsha, World Pasta Day, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Today, World Pasta Day, we celebrate spaghetti. And spaetzle. And lapsha. And lo mein. Composed of flour, water and pressure via hand or machine, p...

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Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A., Holistic, Disposable, Children, Green Parenting, Babysitter, Waldorf Education, Diapers, Neuroscience, Strollers, Mothering, Eastern Europe, Actress, Medicine, Sitcom, Trend, Family, Research Professor, Materialism, Replacement Level, Nanny, Home-Schooling, Body, Nbc, Caregiver, Planet, Husband, Los Angeles, Sierra Magazine, Sustainable, Ucla, Reform Judaism, Health, Judaism, Population, Vegetarian, Homemade Hygiene Products, Bedsharing, Discipline, Earth, Liberal, Potty-Training, Cleaning Products, Cloth, Tolerance, Holistic Moms Network, Cats, Acting, Southern California, Kids, Celebrity, Stay-at-Home Mom, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood, Elimination Communication, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Religion, Water, Fast Food, Slings, Environment, Mom, Shtetl, Blossom, Green News
Avital Binshtock

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

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Travel as Therapy, Pt 1: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Suspend Judgment, Local Custom, Alex Benzer, Therapy, Tao Te Ching, Tibetan Buddhism, Warsaw, Lithuania, Mind Expansion, Travel Therapy, Travel, Healing, Lao Tzu, Tolerance, Tulku Lama Lobsang, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

Remember, you're only traveling because you've got time on your hands. So relax, take a look around you, and know that what you call a problem now will be a funny story later.

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Former Skinhead Battles Racism With Hockey

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: American History X, Sports, Prison, Marc Kielburger, Racism, Skinheads, Tolerance, Craig Kielburger, Hockey, Living News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

Former skinhead Frank Meeink, whose life story was used for Edward Norton's character in American History X, shifted his perspective on skates.

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Tolerance Is Not For Rent

Jason Mannino | Posted 03.23.2009 | Living

Read More: West Side Story, Racism, South Pacific, Proposition 8, Tolerance, Rent, Living News
Jason Mannino

This week, for the first time in Oscar history, a political protest is being staged (in the past they have only been health related for breast cancer ...

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People of the Book are one Another's Trusted Friends

Harun Yahya | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Koran, Jews, Islam, Bible, Catholicism, Judaism, Understanding, Catholic, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Friendship, Islamophobia, Catholic Church, Catholics, Torah, Quran, Christians, Good Deeds, Muslim, Living News
Harun Yahya

Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. However, nowadays certain circles are trying to give Islamic morality the wrong image. The religio...

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Behaving Christ-Like

Carol Hoenig | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Conservative Christians, Religion and Morality, Diversity, America, Barack Obama, Fundamentalists, President Obama, Christ, Jews, Intolerance, Atheism, Obama Inauguration, Islam Tolerance, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Religion, Obama Inaugural Address, Obama Inaugural Speech, Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Living News
Carol Hoenig

When President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address that "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers", I could...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.- Cleansing the Fabric of Our Nation

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Act, Religions, Sexual Orientations, Ages, Martin Luther King Jr., Bush-Cheney, I Have a Dream, Tolerance, Fabric of Our Nation, Barack Obama, Lincoln Memorial, Promised Land, Color of Skin, Classes, Acceptance, Gender Identities, Reverend Martin Luther King, Ethnicities, Activism, Sense of Renewal and Relief, Abraham Lincoln, Financial Crisis, Content of Character, Non-Violence, Mlk Day Service Day, Mlk, MLK Day of Service, Mlk Day Community Service, MLK Day, Politics News
Michael DeJong

Today more than ever, Dr. King now seems with us. His premonition of not reaching the Promised Land at this moment seems false, because Barack Obama is standing on King's shoulders.

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A Veiled Opportunity: Walking in Saudi Arabia

Heather Frank | Posted 01.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Women's Rights, Islamaphobia, Gaza, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Religion, Women, Xenophobia, Tolerance, Culture, World News
Heather Frank

It's been funny and humbling to stick out like a sore thumb for change, speaking only a few words of the local language and being so easy to spot in a crowd.

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Why is the Charter for Compassion so Important?

Karen Armstrong | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Charter for Compassion, Religions, Understanding, Religious Freedom, Differences, Religions of the World, Tolerance, Peace, Compassion, Living News
Karen Armstrong

Each one of the world religions has developed its own version of the Golden Rule and maintained that this is the prime religious duty.

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How Small-Town America Taught Me to Be Open-Minded

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Rural America, Evangelical Christians, Dirty Politics, Hypocrisy, Open-Minded, Liberal, Democrats, Tolerance, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Living News
Jeannie Ralston

To be part of a small town, or at least my small town, I had to be more broadminded than I had been living in a big city.

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So Many Boys, So Little Chance

Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Skin, Underwear, Fun, Body Image, Parade, Gay, Boys, Pride, Tolerance, Chicago, Chicago News
Leslie Goldman

I don't know what you all were doing last Saturday at 3pm, but me? I was surrounded by hundreds of half-naked men wearing teeny little bikini briefs, ...

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