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  • Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?

    Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?0

    Plastic straw bans are taking America by storm. Local governments across the country are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, the Washington Post shadowed a health inspector visiting D.C. restaurants to see if they were complying with the city’s new ban. The most revealing quote in the article came from Julie Lawson, director of

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  • Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil

    Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil0

    A Facebook friend recently asked why people have an interest in serial killers. It’s a valid question and I don’t think she was posing it rhetorically. There must be a reason why audiences are drawn to shows like Netflix’s new four-part docu-series Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. It’s quite an emotionally draining commitment

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  • Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes You’re Probably Taking Out of Context

    Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes You’re Probably Taking Out of Context0

    Shakespeare is often quoted in a way that makes him sound like his works were incredibly serious and philosophical. While it is true that Shakespeare interacts with deep and compelling themes, and some of his plays do have a very somber tone, it’s interesting to see how many of his oft-quoted lines actually appear in

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  • Modern Men in the City

    Modern Men in the City0

    What does it mean to be masculine? It’s a question I posed recently to a young man at a coffee shop—let’s call him “Adam.” Adam, about 20, was intensely fixated on a Green Lantern graphic novel at the time. I noticed the book before I noticed Adam. It was a thick black hard covered book furnishing fleshed

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  • The Rise and Fall of the American Girl Doll Company?

    The Rise and Fall of the American Girl Doll Company?0

    The other day the American Girl doll store at Minnesota’s Mall of America announced it would be closing its doors. It’s been years since I walked through the store looking for gifts for some young relatives; nevertheless, I still felt a twinge of sadness over the news. Even more disheartening, however, was the reason why

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  • Equality for All Women… Except for Working Mothers?

    Equality for All Women… Except for Working Mothers?0

    Earlier this week researchers from Essex University made what might be considered a rather obvious announcement: working mothers are stressed. I can almost hear mothers around the world yelling, “This is news?! We could have told you that without an academic study.” As the research reveals, working women with one child are 18 percent more

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