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Triumph of a Dreamer

Education as lasting monument to the triumph of spirit over circumstances. So is the woman in this article, whose intelligence and perserverence overcame all odds.

Comment. What the hell is it with the price of candy?

I know I'm old. I was born in 1956 and raised in a different era. In the early to mid 1960's my truck driver father (who worked nearly 6 days a week) would give my sisters and myself a dime on Saturday morning.

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Study Suggests Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation

Move over, red wine. Make room for chocolate milk. A new study suggests that regular consumption of skim milk with flavonoid-rich cocoa may reduce inflammation, potentially slowing or preventing development of atherosclerosis.

Sesame Street, The Liberal Conspiracy That Will Indoctrinate Your Kids, Is 40 Today

Big Bird gave money to hookers through ACORN. Oscar the Grouch had an abortion. These @!$%#ing puppets hate America, say conservatives. You know who doesn't hate America? Sarah Palin. And she has a conspiracy theory of her own to add.

Scientists: Junk Food Just As Addicting As Heroin

According to a recent peer-reviewed study by the independent and not-for-profit Scripps Research group, humans can't help craving potato chips because the brain responds to junk food in the same way it does to heroin.

Genius at the age of seven| Herald Sun

LIKE most seven-year-old girls, Olivia Todd likes horses, netball and swimming and says her favourite singers are Pink and Taylor Swift. But with an IQ of 161, Olivia is no ordinary child.

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U.S. Releases Its Stockpile of Tamiflu for Children

Swine flu is sickening so many children across the country, some of them fatally, that federal health officials decided Friday to release the last of the national stockpile of children's Tamiflu.

Baby Faces On The Subway

excerpt:"t is the No. 1 train, late-morning rush. We are all wearing our subway masks, everything from studied fatigue to careful blankness. A well-dressed woman enters the car at 72nd Street and sits on the bench across from where I'm standing.

No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund

Moral of the story - careful what you promise in your branding?

When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate

The topic gets little, if any, attention in standard textbooks or in the psychiatric literature, perhaps reflecting the common and mistaken notion that adults, unlike children and the elderly, are not vulnerable to such emotional abuse.

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