Tag: society
member name: Sheryl O.
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September 10, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
From The Hartford Courant, Sept. 10, 2007:
"Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of the way . . .
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November 27, 2007 07:08 PM EST --
This story was brought to my attention by my daughter. There has been much written in the press and on Gather about Hollywood's theatrical version of The Golden Compass , based on the first . . .
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February 13, 2008 11:12 AM EST --
The phone rang after midnight last night, awakening my husband and myself out of a sound sleep. We both sprang out of bed, but he got there first. After a couple of seconds on the phone, he . . .
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April 23, 2008 03:08 PM EDT --
I've been a mom for almost 24 years now. After reading recent articles about upcoming motherhood by Lainie, I've reflected on what exactly that has meant to me and how these two human . . .
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May 12, 2008 09:28 AM EDT --
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less . . .
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January 14, 2008 11:12 AM EST --
It's been quite a year for the economy:
The Federal Reserve, lawmakers and central banks scrambled to ease the resulting credit crunch caused by the sub-prime morgage meltdown;
Oil climbed . . .
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September 19, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
This article appeared in the New York Times today. Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards are asking for everyone's help to write in and block a new Bush initiative that would allow health workers . . .
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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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February 06, 2008 04:42 PM EST --
Do you know who Angelo Mozilo is? He's the CEO of Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender and the primary source of the subprime mortgages whose defaults are roiling . . .
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November 06, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
Got this in an email from a friend and thought it was pretty funny, in a dark sort of way:
I was feeling depressed last week, so I called the mental health help line. Like all other call centers, . . .
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November 28, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
A robber in the Hartford, CT area fled with a Subway clerk's money early last Sunday morning, but not before offering the clerk a bit of solace. Saying, "Sorry, babe, it's rough out . . .
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October 31, 2007 03:25 PM EDT --
My son just sent me this link, asking if his father looked like any of these pictures when we dated. I just laughed out loud and thought that the "middle agers" among us at Gather might . . .
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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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December 17, 2007 03:40 PM EST --
Received this from a friend - thought it was hysterical - you have to read the entire string of emails in order to FULLY appreciate this bit of holiday humor. The first email is the first . . .
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January 31, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
There has been a lot of discussion in the news recently about the Congressional practice of attaching earmarks onto bills going through the House and Senate. Based on the discussions I have heard, . . .
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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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September 11, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
My son sent me these links. They just about sum up my thoughts on this McCain/Palin ticket:
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Link 2
Questions remain: Can we really be that far gone in this country, . . .
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September 22, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
I saw Rep. Diana Degette (D-CO) speak on C-Span this past weekend about her new book, Sex, Science and Stem Cells: Inside the Right Wing Assault on Reason . Democratic congresswoman DeGette . . .
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November 08, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the House passed by a 235-184 vote the first Federal ban on job discrimination based on sexual orientation, something gay rights groups have been lobbying for for years. The "Employment . . .
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