Tag: social history
member name: Duane B.
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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August 03, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
The only thing that is constant in life is change. We see, hear and feel the constant change in our modern lives every day. Not only does change affect our personal lives, but, . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . .
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January 06, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Politics has often be referred to as "the art of the possible", but paralleling the growth of extreme and hard line religious factions in many mainstream religions of the . . .
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May 23, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
In WWI they called it "shell shocked", in WWII it was called "combat fatigue. In Vietnam it was "the thousand yard stare", but it is as old as human warfare. . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:58 PM EST --
The recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court stating that homosexual couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples and giving the New Jersey Legislature six months . . .
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December 16, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
A growing number of states are deciding not to apply for Federal Health and Human Services funds dedicated to abstinence only education. At least 14 states . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
You’re a Methodist; I’m a Methodist, or Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, or any of the other Christian denominations. We share the same theology, beliefs and values, and yet in too . . .
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September 22, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
A recent MSBNC article on college costs reports that some of the more expensive schools are offering posh dorm rooms and other amenities along with their $40,000 per years tuition. Some students, . . .
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July 01, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
A tautology is a redundant use of language that adds no information because it is, by definition, necessarily true. An example is the phase: bachelors are unmarried. An unmarried . . .
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August 27, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
With more than 2 billion people traveling by air every year, WHO (the World Health Organization, part of the UN) officials are warning that the next worldwide epidemic (pandemic) of a new disease . . .
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September 23, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Men and women of short stature have, and continue to, make remarkable contributions in every area of human endeavor. A person's height indicates nothing about their intellect, wisdom, or any other . . .
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December 20, 2006 10:19 AM EST --
The Guttmacher Institute has done it again, destroying the sexual myth that that previous generations of Americans were more sexually chaste that today. In a new report, the Institute . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that almost 40% of Americans have changed their religion since their childhood, with a growing number dropping any religious . . .
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July 08, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
For many years, being interested in environmental issues and the preservation of wild animal populations, I have watched many documentaries about the capture, examination and tagging of wild animals. One . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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April 30, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
I own a gun. It is a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle . . .
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March 31, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
Barak Obama delivered a speech focusing on race relations in America after the firestorm of controversy surrounding the wide viewing of the videos of his Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, delivering . . .
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October 18, 2006 11:05 AM EDT --
The Census Bureau announced that the population of the US reached 300 million sometime on Tuesday. China and India are the only countries that have larger populations. The average population . . .
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