These pictures may look like an attractive woman in her 20s and her grandmother. But they are said to be the same person – apparently taken just days apart. The young Vietnamese woman at the centre of the improbable medical case, Nguyen Thi Phuong, claims the transformation may have come about because of an extreme [...]
The closer one looks at the Census data on American poverty, the more discouraging it becomes. It was already known that the national poverty rateclimbed to 15.1 percent last year, the greatest percentage since 1993, and that the actual number of Americans living in poverty had hit 46.2 million, the highest number since the Census [...]
Last week, four-year-old Maddy Jackson appeared on the US reality show ’Toddlers and Tiaras’ wearing a padded bra. Her mother also gave her a padded bottom and made her don a peroxide wig in an attempt to make her look like Dolly Parton. I am disgusted by this mother – the lengths that some people go to [...]
There’s no place for lead in the human body, plain and simple. Even the smallest amount of exposure to the element is toxic. Scientists estimate that before the Industrial Revolution, most people had about .01 micrograms of lead for every half cup of blood in their bodies. But we’ve put a lot of lead into [...]
I love technology and it amazes me how many advances have been made over the past fifteen years in mobile phones, computers, televisions and Internet technologies. I love how easy it is to always be connected, to always have Google at your fingertips through some device or another whether it be via a mobile phone, [...]
According to the American Dietetic Association position paper on vegetarian diets, people who eat a vegetarian diet have a lower risk of developing heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. They also tend to have lower LDL cholesterol levels, body mass index (BMI) readings and overall cancer rates (1). However, when it comes [...]
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government is tightening adoption rules to combat child trafficking, state media reported Tuesday, a day after eight people convicted of abducting or murdering children received sentences including the death penalty. Only orphanages will be able to offer abandoned infants and children for adoption, and adults who adopt without official registration [...]
This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com When Anna Marie Osso tells people about Our Lady of Victory Academy in New York’s Westchester County, she starts by recounting all the time and effort that went into the decision to send her daughter there. The process began in 2008, when her daughter, [...]
By Paula Spencer I was trying to do two things at once — cook (in the kitchen) while deciphering some paperwork (in the next room). I’d been interrupted a thousand times with requests for snacks, shrieks over spilled paint water, questions about what squirrels like to eat, and arguments over whether clouds could be blue and [...]
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