A recent health trial conducted by an international group called the Cochrane Collaboration has revealed that self-breast exams may be causing harm to your breasts.
A study involving 400,000 Chinese and Russian women has found that regular self-breast exams really bear no effect on whether or not a woman will detect breast cancer in the early […]

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The Rabbit and the Snowman by Sally O. Lee is a charming story of friendship that all readers - young and old - can appreciate and enjoy.
The story begins in a snowy field, where a group of children decide to build a snowman. They roll three large snowballs, stack them one on top of the […]

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Engineer/blogger Tony Allwright, wrote an editorial in the Irish Times suggesting that the West must intervene in Zimbabwe and throw out Mugabe.
He’s quite logical about the whole thing, and points out
In 2000, British prime minister Tony Blair deployed a crack task force to Sierra Leone, which in just six weeks defeated rebel forces who had […]

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After luring two homeless men into their homes and taking care of them for a few years, Helen Golay, 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, were arrested and charged with murder for financial gain. The men only needed food, water and a place to stay.
A Los Angeles judge today sentenced the two women to life in […]

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Victor tells Sabrina that Abby’s horse is pregnant. Someone calls Victor and talks about the article in the magazine. When he gets off the phone he wonders why anyone would be critical of the article so he calls someone and asks them to get him a copy of the magazine. When he gets a copy […]

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Emily finds Casey and says she can’t see him anymore because she just got a court order where his Dad has started trying to take Daniel away from her. She begs Casey to help her. She wants him to talk to his parents but he doesn’t know of anything he could say to make them […]

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Kayla and Steve meet with Stephanie. She tells them that Max lied to her and he is gone. Stephanie tells them she feels so stupid. She says Max told her he had given up on looking for his sister but he lied to her. She wants to know why she was so gullible. She says […]

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Recently a few readers have sent me an e-mail that has been circulating around the internet for the past few months warning about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The e-mail says:
Think you know who this man is? This possible President of the United States!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our […]

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The worst thing that can happen to a family is to be told a child has a learning disability. No, wait. It’s to lose one of the parents. No, wait. There is still one more disaster to hit the Bean family, but that comes later in the story. How Leonard Bean handles his 10-year-old daughter […]

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Internationally-renowned vocalist Josh Groban recently released a brand-new live CD/DVD on Reprise/143 Records. Directed by Hamish Hamilton, “Awake Live” captures Groban’s exhilarating performance at Salt Lake City’s Energy Solutions Arena before a sold-out crowd on August 28th, 2007. That stop was just one during his 81-city Awake World Tour, which visited North America, Europe, Australia, […]

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Often on the Shire Network News podcast, we’ll satirize extremist Islam by reading a new story and replacing the word “Muslim” with the word “Christian”.  Upon hearing this, the listener (it is hoped) understands how really extreme extremist Muslims are because, for all the similar and worse treatment Christians are accustomed to, you never hear […]

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Having tried “Blue Heaven” and quitting after fifty pages because I absolutely hated it despite the glowing praise from others, I was thrilled to have this one come in at my local library. I have been a big fan of the exploits of Game Warden Joe Pickett for some time despite events such as author […]

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 Update: A state parole panel today unanimously denied “compassionate release” for terminally-ill Manson follower Susan Atkins after hearing emotional testimony both for and against her release.
The 12-member State Board of Parole Hearing, as is customary, did not release any explanation for its decision. 
Anyone that was around in 1969 would remember the gruesome murders of pregnant […]

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Over the years there have been a plethora of stories about disgruntled computer geeks causing havoc with computer systems. Terry Childs is one such guy, but he has taken it to a whole new level. While I doubt this will do much for his future employability, it certainly is amusing.
San Francisco has recently consolidated a […]

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Racism? A Picture Is Woth a Thouxand Words
The New Yorker magazine is the quintessential voice of liberal NYC.
Thus, its ugly caricature of the Obamas is deeply depressing as a manifestation of the embedded racist attitudes that infect even those who announce themselves to be liberated from inherited racist attitudes. They are […]

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Since 1990, the U.S. government, through the Pentagon’s arms export program, has arranged for the delivery of more than $39.6 billion in  foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, and an additional $394 million worth of arms were delivered to the Saudi regime through the State Department’s direct commercial sales program during that same period.  This […]

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An asbestos contaminated ship that has spent some years looking for a final resting place where it can be dismantled is to end up in Britain , where it will be dismantled by Able UK , a specialist company. The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau even made its way as far as India but dismantling […]

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The broadcaster, writer and self-proclaimed defender of motorists’ rights Jeremy Clarkson has a Group of fans on Facebook who would like to see him as Prime Minister. It has an astonishing 300,000 members proving beyond doubt that the “Petrolhead Party” is a force in British politics. Be scared, be very, very scared.
The fallacious starting position […]

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