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  • Childless Women Now Want ‘Me-ternity’ Leave?!?

    Childless Women Now Want ‘Me-ternity’ Leave?!?0

    An interesting article from the New York Post was brought to my attention the other day. The article, written by Anna Davies, declared that single and childless women should be entitled to lengthy, excused absences from work, a concept akin to maternity leave without the children. Davies calls this leave a “meternity.” The reasoning behind

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  • Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation

    Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation0

    On May 4th, 1945, future British actress and Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn celebrated her 16th birthday. Although a girl’s 16th birthday is often a special occasion, turning 16 was even more special for Hepburn, for the day also marked the liberation of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands—the Nazi-occupied Netherlands under which Hepburn had lived since 1939.  The

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  • 3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books

    3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books0

    Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting

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  • $36M Govt. Ad Campaign Encourages LGBT Community to … Quit Smoking

    $36M Govt. Ad Campaign Encourages LGBT Community to … Quit Smoking0

    Via the Washington Free Beacon: The Food and Drug Administration is using young lesbians, drag queens, and transgender individuals in a $36 million advertising campaign to encourage the LGBT community to quit smoking. The government launched the “This Free Life” campaign Monday, which encourages young people to “find their own truth” and not smoke cigarettes.

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  • What the Catholic Church Said about the Public Schools in 1852

    What the Catholic Church Said about the Public Schools in 18520

    America is known as the “land of the free.” Yet, technically, it forces its children to receive some type of formal education. Compulsory education laws have been a part of the American Republic for a little over 150 years (they also existed in some Puritan settlements in colonial America). In all states, children between the

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  • The Genetic Difference Between Early Risers and Late Sleepers

    The Genetic Difference Between Early Risers and Late Sleepers0

    It’s early in the morning, your alarm goes off at 6 a.m., just like it always does.  Time to get up and start the day. You sit up, slide your legs over the edge of the bed, and rub your eyes groggily as you adjust to being cognitive again. A pretty average morning for those

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  • Prof’s CV of Failures Goes Viral (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

    Prof’s CV of Failures Goes Viral (and Why That’s a Good Thing)0

    Sometimes we feel good about other people’s failures. Too often, that’s the feeling the Germans called Schadenfreude—not something to be proud of. But sometimes the human instinct to relish in the failure of others can be used to instruct. That’s the implication of a Washington Post “Wonkblog” from last week entitled “Why it feels so

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  • Is there a Measurable Benefit to Public Art?

    Is there a Measurable Benefit to Public Art?0

    In the Western world, it’s widely assumed that making works of art easily available and visible to the public improves people’s lives in tangible ways. Having lived in half-a-dozen major American cities and one English city, I’ve seen public art everywhere. Much of it is funded in whole or part by the taxpayers. But what,

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  • Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?

    Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?0

    With all of the racial tension lately, is diversity really the answer to our racial problems? This seems to be the solution that the San Francisco Police Department favors at a time when it is under scrutiny for racist text messages among its officers. As Paul Elias reports for the Associated Press, “San Francisco’s police

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