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POPSThe Straight Facts on Women in Poverty The best policy solutions to address women’s poverty must combine a range of decent employment opportunities with a network of social services that support healthy families, such as quality health care, child care, and housing support. Policy objectives must also recognize the multiple barriers to economic security women face based on their race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, physical ability, and health status. These approaches must promote the equal social and economic status of all women by expanding their opportunities to balance work and family life.
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POPSThe Truth About Rick Warren in Africa Team Obama likes to cite Warren’s work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives?
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POPSWe know where you live Actually, we are all already tagged. ID cards, license plates, IP number for each Internet device. Tattoo number on a wrist... O, no, this is for some of us. National database records. Now they already developing pills with chemically storing information inside our bodies. O, yes, ship under skin is for cattle, you are absolutely right, it's disgusting. You are rebel and don't want to go thru the gate? Go in that long line, please.
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POPSRethinking science and religion "But at the same time, we have uncovered profound mysteries - dark matter and dark energy, for example, 95 percent (!) of the cosmic order but of unknown character - and these awaken a tangible sense of humility: We do not know it all. Today, religious people have cause to rejoice. The god of the gaps may be dead, but spiritual life is reinvigorated because God is no longer just the perfunctory explanation for mystery. God is the author of wonder." i think that behind science wonder exists, its parallel in religion is bewilderment.
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POPSElephants ready to party as eBay ban approaches In a statement, Jack Christin, senior regulatory counsel for eBay had this to say: "Due to the unique nature of eBay's global online marketplace and the complexity surrounding the sale of ivory, we decided to ban the sale of ivory on eBay. We appreciate the support from the IFAW in assisting us and we look forward to continuing to work with them on the implementation of the global ban. Like the IFAW, ultimately we feel this is the best way to protect the endangered and protected species from which a significant portion of ivory products are derived."
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POPSHoneybees As Plant 'Bodyguards' I always have bees in my little yard and am not troubled by caterpillars. Wasps help. Wish they worked with slugs. I'm sick of drunk slugs. They are supposed to drown in the beer, not party.
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POPSCan you count on it? Being a computer person, it is hard for me to say it - this is not an appropriate place for technology. Not being a nationalist, it is easy to praise our Danish election system - members of the poliical parties man the election rooms, paper and pencil for the voters - everything is counted before midnight, the results are never questioned and no scandals ...
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POPS Bailout "It's difficult to do such things outside of reorganization," he said. "But sometimes that can be successfully done." "When you look at the size of this industry and look at all those that it touches in terms of suppliers and dealers ... it would seem to be an imprudent risk to take," he said. The National Automobile Dealers Association also spoke out against bankruptcy "in any way shape or form, orderly or disorderly, prepackaged or unpackaged, managed or unmanaged," said spokesman Bailey Wood. The White House has repeatedly emphasized its opposition to "disorderly bankruptcy" -- presumably filing under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy act that would effectively shut down a company and require sale of its assets. That has left the possibility of one or more of the automakers filing under the act's Chapter 11, which allows a firm to operate while it reorganizes under a court's supervision. "A disorderly bankruptcy of these companies is just not acceptable".
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POPSGermans destroy the myth of Superman Brown When Gordon Brown told the Commons that he led the world into recovery, he was not telling the truth. Germany believes, as I do and many others, that one of the perpetrators of the oncoming disaster cannot also be the saviour. When I listened to Esther Rancid eulogising over hero Brown, all my misogyny kicked back in.
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POPSNot Good News As Lunar New Year Approaches The desire for ducks, geese, chickens and pigs with which to celebrate Lunar New Year, brings millions upon millions of poultry and swine to market for the next two months and raises the potnetial for spread of new flu variants, as well as avian flu!
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POPSNew, improved bartenders can be quite old-fashioned: 8 bartending philosophies They give a couple of shouts-out to the Bay Area: Daniel Hyatt at the Alembic Bar in San Francisco…The movement is at its fullest flower on the West Coast, with its 12-month growing season… At Cyrus in Healdsburg, Calif., Scott Beattie’s Meyer Beautiful incorporates Charbay Meyer lemon vodka.… Martin Cate’s Forbidden Island in Alameda, Calif., offers a Don the Beachcomber formula called the Nui Nui, with fresh citrus, pimento liqueur, cinnamon and vanilla syrups, and aged Barbados rum. I live less than four miles from Forbidden Island – less than three, as the crow flies (or goose swims). How is it that I've never tried a Nui Nui? It sounds tasty!
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POPSConflict of Interest? We often see stories about the Texas education system. Usually they have to do with the choice of biology textbook and the perceived conflict with religion. I see no reason why this woman should be on a Texas board of education. Clearly she approaches her job with an agenda that is contrary to the secular education of our children.
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POPSdangerous? I think this is way beyond any monster science fiction world possible to conceive. How did humanity get so far astray?
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POPSGene Therapy Might Cure AIDS While cautioning that the Berlin case could be a fluke, David Baltimore, who won a Nobel prize for his research on tumor viruses, deemed it "a very good sign" and a virtual "proof of principle" for gene-therapy approaches. Dr. Baltimore and his colleague, University of California at Los Angeles researcher Irvin Chen, have developed a gene therapy strategy against HIV that works in a similar way to the Berlin case. Drs. Baltimore and Chen have formed a private company to develop the therapy.
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POPSA new Legacy in Belguim for World War One Deserters As the war approaches its 100th anniversary, Poperinge’s monument reflects a vast recent shift in attitudes in the European countries that suffered the greatest human losses, recalling not only those who died in combat but those who faced a firing squad for protesting, refusing to fight or fleeing the front.
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POPSHow to be the perfect house guest this holiday season As holiday season approaches many of us will travel to see friends and family.Heres how to show gratitude and make your stay a welcome and pleasant one now or any time of the year.May be take them out to dinner but the others can be considered as they would probably to polite to expect your considerations.
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POPSPersonal Competence Skills A learned capability based on emotional intelligence denoting the cluster of traits/abilities relating to the emotional side of life originated by psycologist Daniel Goleman (1998)
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POPSFacial feminization surgery: the subtle differences between male & female faces More: The male skull, Ousterhout explains, has more hooding over the eyes, whereas females have a more "open, convex orbit." During facial feminization surgery, Ousterhout pulls the face back from the forehead and removes part of the forehead bone, leaving a more feminine contour. The chin, which in men is wider and 20 percent longer than the female mandible, is reduced to female size and shape…The surgery will also lift her upper lip closer to her nose, allowing for a more feminine smile. It's a subtle difference, Ousterhout says, but men have a vertically longer upper lip than women. It's not noticeable when they smile, but when a man's lips are parted a few millimeters, the upper teeth are hidden.…the most obvious factor and biggest giveaway for transsexuals is the thyroid cartilage, or Adam's apple…Ousterhout approaches it through an incision just behind the chin to leave less obvious scarring.
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