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Top 8 Items To Make Your Travels Easier, Safer & Healthier

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted November 21, 2009 | Style

Read More: Air Travel, Chic Buds, Flip Video, Holiday Travel, Jetset Extra, La Fresh Travel Towelettes, Rack Trap, Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, Travel Expert, Travel Items, Travel Tips

I just got back from a grueling trip to Europe. After thousands of miles of travel, I have found some great items that have really helped me out. They have kept me safe, sane, healthy, and fresh. All of these items are super easy to use . Here is a...

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The Dawning Of The Post-Crisis Entrepreneurship Generation, Here And All Around The World

John Hope Bryant | Posted November 21, 2009 | Business

Read More: Business, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Love-Leadership-The-New-Way-To-Lead-In-a-Fear-Based-World, Silver Rights, Small Business, Social Entrepreneur

From civil rights to silver rights.

In my new book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World, I submit that there are two things in the world, love and fear, and that what we don't love what we fear. Further, I submit that the reason...

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Join the World in Embracing Children's Rights

Human Rights Watch | Posted November 21, 2009 | World

Read More: Barack Obama, Children's Rights, Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Hillary Clinton, Somalia, Unicef, United Nations, United States, War Zones

The most widely and rapidly ratified human rights treaty in history is 20 years old. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was shaped by the United States, which drafted more of its provisions than any other government. Only two countries in the world have failed to ratify the...

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Tyranny of the Silent Filibuster

Craig Crawford | Posted November 21, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Filibuster, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform

Why doesn't Harry Reid force an old-fashioned filibuster that could make Republicans look silly? Because he can't.

The Senate Majority Leader must get 60 votes to start the health care debate -- which he aims to try tonight -- and he'll need that many again when it comes time to...

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Inspired By Oprah, Homeless Guy Ends 25 Years of Shouting at Passersby

Andy Borowitz | Posted November 21, 2009 | Comedy

Read More: Andy Borowitz, Borowitz Report, Homeless, New York City, NYC Subways, Oprah Winfrey

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - A homeless man who began shouting at New Yorkers in 1985 said that Oprah Winfrey was the inspiration behind his decision to call it quits in early 2010.

"I've had a good run," said Tracy Klugian, who has barked non sequiturs at passersby on...

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Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

William Bradley | Posted November 21, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, Advertising, Bill Clinton, Don Draper, Hillary Clinton, January Jones, John F. Kennedy, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Pop Art, Rothko

Mad Men's brilliant third season finale earlier this month is still echoing in the mind. And in the culture. January Jones was a game host of Saturday Night Live the following weekend. (Though she didn't make anyone forget Jon Hamm's great hosting gig last year. He is seriously funny.) Secretary...

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Amazing Gaza Film By Young Palestinian Kid

MJ Rosenberg | Posted November 21, 2009 | World

Read More: Israel Gaza, Mohammed Omer

Last week I met with a young Palestinian from Gaza, Mohammed Omer. He is an award-winning journalist with an incredible story.

After meeting him, I went to his presentation at a bistro in town called "Busboys and Poets" (the coolest place in DC these days).

His presentation blew me away....

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Should Insurance Companies Pay For Preventive Care?

Tara Stiles | Posted November 20, 2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthy Lifestyle, Lifestyle, Meditation, Prevention, Preventive Medicine, Tara Stiles, Wellness, Yoga

Should government pay for preventive care? Should insurance companies? This topic has been coming up lately around the studio. We encourage people to come to class frequently to give them the best possible benefits. The once a week Strala class is fine for relaxation, or a fun social activity, but...

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8 Gateways To Greater Happiness

Anne Naylor | Posted November 20, 2009 | Living

Read More: Anne Frank, Aristotle, Ben Franklin, Buddha, Connecting, Forgiving, Fun, Gifts, Gratitude, Happiness, Joy, Lily Day, Lord Byron, Service, Talent, Thanksgiving, William Blake

Are you as happy as you would like to be? Or could you be happier? These weeks leading up to the end of the year holidays can for many be an emotional roller coaster.

A gateway presents itself as a choice. You go up to it. Then you decide:...

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Top 10 New Radical Gifts

Julia Moulden | Posted November 21, 2009 | Living

Read More: Careers, Emma Thompson, Gifts, Giving, Holidays, Joy, Kanye West, Love, Nfb, North South Project, Oprah, Peace, The Giving Life

Are you like me -- suddenly realizing that the holidays are only weeks away? And are you totally and completely convinced that you don't want to give the same old, same old this year? Then my favourite New Radical gift ideas might just come in handy. Hopefully you'll find something...

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Review: Adam Lambert's 'For Your Entertainment' An Instant Classic

Joe Vogel | Posted November 21, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Adam Lambert, Entertainment, Music

Adam Lambert "For Your Entertainment" (19/RCA)

Ten or twenty years from now, when people are reflecting on the defining albums of the current pop-synth-glam revival, For Your Entertainment will undoubtedly be at the top of many lists.

This, of course,...

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Changing the Game

Walter Iooss | Posted November 21, 2009 | Sports

Neil Leifer and I are both so impressed by what's happening at the Annenberg Space for Photography. If you love Sports in any way shape or form you are going to enjoy what you see here. To have a lady like Wallis Annenberg put two sports photographers together is quite...

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The Beck Bash has Worked Wonders--For Beck

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted November 21, 2009 |

Read More: Barack Obama Fox News, Conservative Media, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Sarah Palin

Glenn Beck loves every minute of the Beck bash. In recent days he's gotten a rock star mob welcome in South Carolina and Washington. He'd get the same fan mob turnout in dozens of other cities that he chose to travel to. His ratings have soared through the...

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Dream of money-bags tonight

David Horton | Posted November 21, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, CRU Emails, Global Warming, Global Warming Deniers, James Inhofe

All of us who concerned about the future of the planet have misunderestimated the opposition from those who are not. We thought that the flooding of web sites, talk back radio, television chat shows, letters columns in newspapers, blogs, with tens of thousands of mindless repetitions of a few talking...

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Oren Moverman delivers with The Messenger

Marshall Fine | Posted November 20, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ben Affleck, Ben Foster, Marshall Fine Interview, Oren Moverman Interview, Sydney Pollack, The Messenger, Woody Harrelson

It's referred to as "development hell" - that period between when a script is optioned and when it gets a green light - an endless series of notes, meetings and rewrites when the original script falls prey to the whims of all the chefs involved with creating this particular soufflé.

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Left, Right & Center: Obama-Geithner Revolt, Sarah Palin, Health Care Update

Huff Radio | Posted November 20, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Polls, Health Care Reform, Obama Approval, Sarah Palin, Timothy Geithner

There's a strong feeling that Congress is bucking Obama and isn't being called to task for it. For the first time, Obama's approval ratings are below 50 percent (Gallup poll says) and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's resignation are growing louder.

Sarah Palin's managed to suck up a...

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Video: eBay is a Style Barometer: Plaids, Rocker-Chic and Leather Jackets are Hot, Says Constance White

Andy Plesser | Posted November 20, 2009 | Technology

Read More: Constance White, Ebay, Fashion, Narciso Rodriguez

NEW YORK, NY-- eBay has the pulse of the fashion market because, "It's probably the only place that a person could come to and really see the breadth and depth of style at their fingertips," says Constance White, Style Director for eBay.

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Sarah Palin and Her Lies (And Her Fans Who Attack Her Critics)

Bella DePaulo | Posted November 20, 2009 | Politics

I've been blogging since June of 2006 and have not avoided controversial issues or people. But something I recently posted at Psychology Today, "Sarah Palin's Lies" (now posted in full below), elicited more vitriolic comments and personal e-mails than anything else I've ever written. Here are a few examples:

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Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant | Posted November 20, 2009 | Politics

Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether he's eating enough, and whether he's losing...

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Every Day My Heart Gets Broken

Dennis Danziger | Posted November 20, 2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Amy Friedman, Culver City, High School Students, Lausd, Pen, PEN In The Classroom, Public School, Race To The Top, School Vouchers, Teacher Unions

Every day my heart gets broken.

The hurt starts before I step foot onto my campus. I live six blocks from my work site in a diverse, middle-class neighborhood called Mar Vista where two bedroom homes sell for $700,000 and the gentrified two-story jobs go for over a million.

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