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10/04/10

Sometimes the child with the worst attitude is the child with the biggest struggle. It’s important to remember that a child’s attitude toward school is often shaped by the reactions they get from parents and teachers. When we take a deeper look at children with behavior problems we can see the...

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Joe Newman

Open Flexible Work

10/01/10

I work from home. So do all the people who work with MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org , the two organizations I co-founded. It works great for us and has for years, and so, when I read that the number of U.S. telecommuters dipped to 8.7 million in 2009 from 9.2 million in 2006 (according to the IDC, a...

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Joan Blades

Open Flexible Work

10/01/10

Licia Ronzulli, a member of the European Union's Parliament from Italy, with her baby. Licia Ronzulli, a member of the European Union's Parliament from Italy, sat poised and focused in her parliamentary seat. Her right hand raised in a vote, her left hand turning a page on her desk, and wrapped...

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Katie Bethell

Health Care

09/30/10

Question: Will there eventually be a public option? Answer: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010, is a huge step forward for health care consumers. It will bring quality, affordable coverage to all Americans through the creation of health...

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Claire McAndrew

Food! Blog Carnivals

09/30/10

Sometimes, even a healthy food isn’t so healthy. Take, for example, the package of bison hot dogs I received recently for review . Bison, I know, is an incredibly healthy meat, especially when compared to beef: it’s lower in calories, fat, and cholesterol. So surely hot dogs made from bison would...

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Debbie Koenig

09/30/10

In 1854 Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Our life is frittered away by detail” and called for “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a milion count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ” It’s good...

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Lisa Harper

Environmental Health

09/30/10

Our nation’s schools are in trouble – and this time, it’s not the test scores. No, this time it is the toxic chemicals lurking in schools that leave children too sick to learn. Many schools around the country are literally made out of an emerging toxic plastic of concern , polyvinyl chloride (a.k.a...

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Mike Schade

Open Flexible Work

09/30/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Your (Wo)Man in Washington welcomes guest blogger Alisa Gilbert who writes on the topics of bachelors degree . She welcomes your comments at her email Id: alisagilbert599 @ gmail.com ...

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Valerie Young

09/29/10

Fall is my favorite time of year. It brings back some of my best childhood memories: playing in a big pile of crunchy red and yellow leaves, feeling the crisp air on my skin on nature walks as butterflies led the way, the first smell of my carved pumpkin. I am greatly indebted to my parents, who...

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Robyn Carmichael

Environmental Health

09/29/10

Last week, I watched Ken Cook (president and founder of Environmental Working Group) talk about 10 Americans at UNC Chapel Hill (live talk here ) He talked about testing the blood of 10 Americans in one day for 413 toxic chemicals. The results of the tests were staggering: a total of 212 toxic...

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Judit Beres