September 2011
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USA.gov: Watching Two Hours of TV Per Day Puts... →
usagov:
People who watch two or more hours of TV a day are much more likely to have severe health problems than people who do not, according to a study from the Harvard School of Public Health that analyzed data from the past 30 years.
Too much TV is linked to:
a 20 percent increase in diabetes
a…
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Dwell in possibility.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Strength means recognizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time.”
– Sally Franser
“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
– Dorothy Parker
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions all life is an experience.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between the lines- "Young and Mixed in America" →
Topics on race and identity fascinate me, it’s even better when students my age are leading the conversation.
“If the future road loom ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting,...”
– Maya Angelou
“I am unfolding in fulfilling ways. Only good can come to me. I now express...”
– Unknown
“You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any...”
– Dr. Seuss
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is...”
– E.L. Konigsburg
Washington Post reflection- 2Pac 15 years ago →
Washington Post Blogger, pulls out of the Post’s archives an article written the day after Tupac died
Remember 2Pac 15 years later
I had just turned 11 when 2Pac died. I remember staring at MTV for hours after the news that he had gotten shot, hoping and praying that he would live. I don’t think at 11 I understood the impact 2Pac had on my life at the time, I think for me it was just this reality that life was/is too short. I didn’t understand how someone could take another person’s life, and I didn’t...
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First Sports Blog post of the 2011 NFL Season..... →
“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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"The Tanning of America?".... Thoughts? →
“[F]or how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli via 50 Cent & Robert Greene in “The 50th Law”
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USA Today asks- "How has 9/11 changed America?" →
freddyd1968:
Today’s cover story of USA Today, like many other leading media sources is leading up to the 10 year Anniversary of 9/11. USA Today’s cover story follows the lives of 7 people post 9/11, witnessing how this major event in the nation’s and world’s history impacted the lives of many people one moment at a time.
Here are some videos on USA Today’s website of other stories of people...
Population increase in minority demographic within... →
Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin has regrets... →
