This Little Girl With Cancer Just Stumped the Make A Wish...
Everyone has heard of cancer. Not only that, nearly everyone has known someone with cancer. However, not many Americans have known someone that has had cancer at a very young age, and certainly not been acquainted with someone as...
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An Easy and Dangerous Addiction
A surgery or harsh accident often elicits a prescription for painkillers and other drugs that will help the patient through their recovery. Often times, the patient recovers sufficiently, and they give no more thought to the incident,...
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A Woman's Dangerous Body Image
Women’s magazines line the shelves at almost every check-out stand. Their glossy covers promise us articles on how to lose weight, please our man in bed, and the best foods for your body type. They also display gorgeous,...
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Children and Their Anxieties: Riskier Than You Think
Checking doors. Locking windows. Washing hands, straightening sheets, moving back and forth over the same routine over and over and over. Such is the life of a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or...
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Generation Y Does Know How To Love, Despite What This...
The term “Generation Y” often elicits the image that many researchers have given it of late: Digitally-obsessed, sex-crazed, underachievers who are returning from a short stint in college to their parents’ basements....
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The Psychology of Regret
Most of us have heard the adage, “Live with no regrets.” From this, we gather that living with any regret will hold us back, that looking over our mistakes in both the past and present and feeling badly about them is...
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Is It Really Good To Be The Biggest Loser?
Millions of Americans tuned into NBC last night to watch the season finale of The Biggest Loser. As the three final contestants, Bobby, Rachel, and David stepped up to the scale, the audience held their collective breath. The contestants...
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Watch Out For That Black Cat While You Walk Under The...
Don’t step on the cracks in the sidewalk. Don’t open an umbrella indoors. Don’t forget to wear your red jersey and purple socks to the next football game. These and hundreds of other superstitions permeate American...
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JK Rowling Says It Should Have Been Hermione Potter
In a startling confession, author JK Rowling admitted that she made a mistake in marrying Hermione Granger to Ronald Weasley in her famed Harry Potter series. Um—what? In an article for The Sunday Times, Rowling said, “I...
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