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Parent Acts: Why is it so hard to let our kids fail?
- Home & Family
- July 19, 2016
No parent wants their child to ever fail or fall down. But can you unwittingly hurt your child in the long run by repeatedly being too quick to intervene? As a parent, Kelly Wallace, CNN’s Digital correspondent, admits to grappling with that question. Here is some expert advice that she has found particularly helpful.
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Grid Attack: How America Could Go Dark
- Headlines & Highlights
- July 14, 2016
“The U.S. electric system is in danger of widespread blackouts lasting days, weeks or longer through the destruction of sensitive hard-to-replace equipment; Yet records are so spotty….”
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How to Stop Robocalls… or at Least Fight Back
- Headlines & Highlights
- June 28, 2016
“When robots call, don’t answer. Experts from the FTC and Federal Communications Commission told me that letting the systems know you’re a real person… “
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Stress is contagious in the classroom
- Headlines & Highlights
- June 27, 2016
That’s the finding from a University of British Columbia study recently published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
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How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- June 24, 2016
“As two people newly in love, we talked and talked,” Molly Pascal, writes in The New York Times Sunday Style Section, but in reflecting on her marriage, she shares how she and her husband had to learn how to “talk again” and in so doing “fell in love again.”
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Why handwriting is still essential in the keyboard age
- Headlines & Highlights
- June 20, 2016
“This myth that handwriting is just a motor skill is just plain wrong. We use motor parts of our brain, motor planning, motor control,..”
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This is the most important lesson you can teach your kid
- Headlines & Highlights
- June 18, 2016
New York Post writer Mackenzie Dawson makes the case for why teaching children empathy is vital for their well-being–perhaps now more than ever.
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Our cellphones are killing us
- Headlines & Highlights
- June 18, 2016
Distracted walking or driving can literally end up killing you, as New York Post writer: Maureen Callahan points out with vivid examples of pedestrians and drivers who died with their cellphones in hand. Consider these headlines?
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A night of moving Tony tributes to Orlando from James Cordon, Frank Langella and Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- June 16, 2016
It is a Broadway tradition that the show must go on. And so the Tony Awards did go on Sunday night as scheduled. But before the show officially started, host James Corden began on just the right note with his heartfelt tribute to those who died or were wounded in this nation’s worst mass shooting in Orlando:
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Prince, opioids and the rest of us: America needs a massive public education campaign to help people hooked on Percocet and related drugs
- Health & Healing
- May 11, 2016
Have you ever been prescribed a painkiller? Did the doctor tell you that opioids like Persoset, Vicatin and Fentanyl, while effective in the short term, can become highly addictive? Did you think that it couldn’t happen to you?
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The Endless Table: How recipes can keep your memories alive
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- April 22, 2016
When the father of celebrated Boston chef Joy Adams was nearing the end of his life, he chose hospice care in the home. Joy, along with the rest of her family, was there to support him. As CNN’s Ashley Strickland writes, Joy not only had fond childhood memories of several dishes her father made, but credited him with imparting to her a true love for food. So it should come as no surprise that that she used her culinary skills to comfort her dad by cooking for him.
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Newlyweds become medical researchers to find cure for wife’s disease
- Health & Healing
- April 5, 2016
Sonia Vallabj and Eric Minikel fell in love and married expecting to live happily ever after. But 5 years ago, she was diagnosed with genetic prion disease, which leads to a decline in memory that only worsens over time. As CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports, this husband and wife decided they couldn’t afford to sit back and wait for others to come up with a cure; they had to be part of the process.
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Patty Duke Died Of The Most Common Condition You’ve Never Heard Of
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- April 1, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says sepsis affects more than 1 million Americans each year–over 258,000 die from it. Yet many of us don’t even know what sepsis is, no less how to prevent it. The death this week of Academy award-winning actress, Patty Duke, put a spotlight on this all too common condition. The cause was listed as an intestinal infection that led to sepsis.
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Tell Congress to Shield the Grid Now: All of our lives depend on it.
- Causes, Environmental Well-Being, Featured
- March 24, 2016
There are certain things in life we take for granted. Flip a switch, the lights go on; our refrigerators and other appliances work and our tech devices get charged. But what if the electricity went out, not just for a day or two or a period of weeks, but months or even years? How many
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Grammy Music Educator Award goes to N.C. high school teacher
- Entertainment, Books & Humor, News Room
- February 11, 2016
There is a special Grammy Award that is announced in advance. It goes to the music educator of the year. And the 2016 winner is Phillip Riggs from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. He beat out over 4,500 other nominees for his “significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education.
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