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- December 15, 2010
Many child development experts are worried that the lessons children are learning in school won’t help them to succeed. These experts believe that the constant growing emphasis on academic performance and test scores prevents children from developing important life skills like self-control, motivation, focus and resilience, which are better indicators of long-term success than earning
READ MOREFlorence Jones was working for Baseline Financial 10 years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center when planes piloted by terrorists plowed into the two towers in downtown Manhattan. Jones was on the 78th floor of the South Tower. ABC News invited Jones to tour ground zero last month from within the
READ MOREThis ABC News story details how the toxic mixture of chemicals in the air impacts the health of people who have been exposed to it. ABC News, 9/8/2011
READ MOREThis is a must-read article about sunscreen and how using a lotion with a high SPF factor can affect your Vitamin D levels and your bones. The Daily Mail, 8/26/2011
READ MOREHealth officials are prescribing fewer and fewer antibiotics to children. Since the early 1990s, there’s been a 10% in prescription rates for kids age 14 and younger. Mainly, the CDC is finding larger declines in how often doctors used antibiotics against colds and sore throats. USA Today, 9/2/2011
READ MORESinger Cyndi Lauper’s shelter for homeless lesbian and gay youths, The True Colors Residence, will open in New York this Friday. The shelter, which is named after Lauper’s 1986 single, will offer help to bisexual and transgender people ages 18-24 who have ended up on the streets because of disapproving families. Lauper explains, “We need
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