Monthly Archives: June 2012

Messages from a Ray of enlightenment

WHEN I heard Ray Bradbury had died, my mind flooded with images. They’d been in hibernation since the time when I read his short stories as a child. Still beautiful, haunting, frightening. there was the Illustrated Man, his body covered with tattoos that came to life and told their own stories. there was a carnival, [...]

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Marco Rubio’s family immigration story addressed in new books

(Credit:CBS News) (CBS News) since Republican Marco Rubio won his 2010 Senate contest and rose to prominence in the GOP, his family’s immigration story has been the subject of interest — and it became the subject of some controversy last fall after discrepancies were revealed between Rubio’s version of the story and what immigration records [...]

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Residents sift through ashes of 52 Utah homes

SALT LAKE CITY — Residents are sifting through the ashes of more than 50 houses destroyed by a central Utah wildfire. a helicopter picks up 2,600 gallons of water from an irrigation pond on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, to help fight the Wood Hollow Fire in central Utah. Livestock scatter in the commotion. The fire [...]

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Why Do Kids Become Addicted to Video Games?

Video games are quickly becoming an epidemic in this generation. Young children are being introduced to it from the moment they learn to push buttons. Kids and teens are constantly targeted for gaming advertisements everywhere they go. Worse yet, adults are sacrificing their lives for a fabricated reality, to escape the real world where making [...]

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The Many Benefits of Using Printable Coloring Pages Featuring ABC Learning For Kids

In order for a child to be happy and develop well, the role that parents play is extremely critical. they are the children’s first heroes and friends. Children learn most of their first lessons and concepts of the world around them from their parents. this is why parents should understand the ways to put their [...]

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NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and WeatherPhilly archdiocese to sell large NJ beach house

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is putting a massive beachfront home on the New Jersey shore up for sale as it faces a $17 million budget deficit and millions in legal bills associated with child sex abuse litigation. The home used by vacationing retired priests will be shuttered on Saturday, a spokesman for [...]

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Accused Of Witchcraft, Congolese Children Face Scorn and Abuse

When a family in Congo suffers an illness or poverty, the blame is often laid on one of the children, who may wind up accused of sorcery. if that happens, other truly horrible things may follow. by: fabien Children in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (luc56) LUBUMBASHI – In the Democratic Republic of Congo, when a [...]

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A Fairy Tale

I set out from the city of Torun to seek out the abandoned dwarfish castle of Marezledin under the ground. Instead, I wandered the tunnels hopelessly for months, emerging with nothing, save this tale. A small, bright flicker of light could be seen in the distance, growing larger with each passing moment. I stared into [...]

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Exclusive: Chinese mother tells of fear during forced abortion

10:50am, Fri 29 Jun 2012 – last updated Fri 29 Jun 2012 Feng Jianmei in her hospital bed Photo: It took us ten hours to drive from the nearest airport through the misty hills of Shanxi province to reach Zhenping, a small town along the banks of a wide shallow river. There's a famous Chinese [...]

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Black girls don't benefit as much from exercise

In a new study of U.S. preteen and teen girls, daily exercise was strongly linked to weight and obesity in white girls but not black girls. Although it’s still important to promote physical activity in all young people, according to the researchers that may not be enough to prevent black girls — who have a [...]

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