Tag: education
member name: Sheryl O.
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August 22, 2008 01:42 PM EDT --
I first encountered this acronym as a project manager working in a large insurance company. During an initial planning meeting for a large project, my start-up team was completing the scoping documents, . . .
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June 16, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Well, another study has come out telling us what we already know (or at least what many of us know). University of Washington researchers found that for every hour the TV set was on, even if . . .
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February 09, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
I received the following email this last Friday, Feb 6th:
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Dear Sheryl,
I am writing to alert you to efforts underway this morning to zero out a large . . .
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July 14, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
Forty years ago, my family piled into our old Galaxy 500 with black vinyl interior and no air conditioning and took to the road. Our destination was Cape Canaveral, FL, 1,300 miles away. . . .
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June 17, 2009 01:07 PM EDT --
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that only 3% of kids' meals served at fast food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines. The study conducted in Houston, . . .
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November 17, 2009 11:13 AM EST --
I have been volunteering at a Saturday tutoring program for disadvantaged 2 nd -4 th graders at a local elementary school for the past year. It’s a great program and it’s been . . .
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January 28, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
Big controversy at Connecticut's Choate Rosemary Hall has ensued as to whether or not to allow Karl Rove to speak at this year's graduation ceremony. Rove's speaking engagement was secured . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
This is a letter to all the men and women in the media who are responsible for making the decisions about what gets communicated to the American public under the guise of “news”. This . . .
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May 03, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
It hit me right in the gut last night. I was discussing our recent read, Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient), with my library book club and all of us agreed . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
My husband and I will at times reminisce about the "good ol' days" when we were in school. (My husband has some especially colorful stories concerning escapades he and his friends had during . . .
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June 29, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
My husband has promised me to sign up for a couple of these.....: - )
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED . . .
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July 13, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
Exactly how clueless does Bush think the American people are? He continues to talk about U.S. citizens as if we were as ignorant and naive as he is. The latest is that we are all suffering . . .
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October 09, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
I recently read an editorial by Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She cited this stat:
Number of students who dropped out of U.S. high . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
According to a report in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of scientists which includes Henry C. Harpending, an anthropologist at the University . . .
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September 09, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
A while back Gather asked members to join a new book discussion club. As a way to kick off the club, they requested that people write a comment about why they wanted to join. The moderator . . .
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May 25, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
In the recent discussions about immigration issues I have seen on Gather and in the larger media, I have seen/heard very little about the problems unique to highly skilled immigrants, most with higher . . .
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December 10, 2007 11:48 AM EST --
I am in no way a professional critic, or even a good amateur, but there has been a lot written about the movie version of The Golden Compass , book one of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials . . .
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April 14, 2008 03:14 PM EDT --
I love Warren Buffet. First, he's an amazingly intelligent, wise, hard-working individual who is essentially self-made, although his father was a stock broker and encouraged his interest in . . .
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December 28, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
I was waiting in line in a city bank the other day when I noticed two small African-American boys, probably around 5 or 6 years of age, sitting in a small waiting area in the center of the bank. . . .
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December 01, 2006 03:21 PM EST --
I have given up on organized religion. I have not stopped believing in God and in the basic Truths that are God, but I can no longer support the organized practice of religion…any religion. . . .
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