Christmas is often considered to be little more a time of giving stuff to people. Many of us rush around to get something for everyone we would feel embarrassed about if we left off the list. This is not the spirit of giving – it is the insecurity that develops when we have have...
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PERSISTENT BIAS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE When reviewing research trials that are based upon observing a population of people in order to determine the incidence of certain diseases, I generally take great care to mention the inherent limitations of such epidemiological studies. This is particularly important in those studies that rely upon the study...
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Tenure votes at the earliest levels are made by a faculty member’s department, and they typically set the tone for whether that faculty member will ultimately receive tenure. Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez was first denied tenure by his Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University (ISU) in November 2006, and he soon thereafter...
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How to put it to work in your life. Pastor Rick Allen’s sermon on Sunday, December 2, at the Black Rock – Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) focused on understanding the Holy Spirit as a helper and supporter in our daily lives. Existence itself is the Mind of God, God’s Word, eternal...
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Again it happens. In Baltimore a young white woman boards a bus and wants to sit down. Each time she tries to take a seat she is told by nine black middle-schools students, ages 14 and 15, including three girls, that she can’t. Finally she sits anyway. The littleâ€â€the middle-school students, I meanâ€â€attack her....
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Two bombs have exploded in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, killing at least 67 people. Both explosions were car bombs, at least one of which is being called a suicide bombing. The first explosion took place in the Ben Aknoun district in the center of the city, which is near the constitutional court. The...
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For the first time in over a half a century, regular train service hosting cargo crossed between North and South Korea. The train is 12 cars long and is carrying building materials to Kaesong, a key industrial junction for the two countries. The train will head back immediately after unloading. The service will continue...
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This AOL/McAfee software security ad portrays an obese black man as being too stupid to operate his computer properly, while the woman is, of course, super smart and competent.
To watch the commercial, click here.
Thanks to Jon, a reader, for sending it to me.
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Florida International University Psychology Professor Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. has some interesting thoughts on the way the media reports the alleged gender wage gap. In his recent column Gender pay gap myths and 2008, Finley writes:
"A headline by Reuters on Nov. 7 was startling and certainly newsworthy: 'Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study.'...
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Most know that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s politics veer to the outer fringes of the radical left. But how many understand the reasons for her conversion from Goldwater conservative to cultural Marxist, and how this would play out during her controversial bid for the U.S. presidency? Comfortably ensconced in suburban Park Ridge, Ill., Hillary grew...
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Author’s note: I included material in the first version of this essay that distracted my readers from my basic points. I am rewriting it without that material. There is often a lot of public focus on people with careers that are both challenging and personally satisfying: newscasters, actors and actresses, doctors, lawyers, journalists, executives,...
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