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A thread about Bill Cosby's remarks about African-Americans and their culture of romanticizing underachievement sparked a side issue about reading development. I made the claim that research shows that those who read poorly in the first grade remain poor readers as they grow up. A couple of...

From this article about how the vast majority of Americans believe in angels, in one form or another, comes this interesting little stat: First, I'm assuming that the % of minorities vs non-minorities in this stat merely dovetails with what's really interesting -- poor people less likely to...

By living in a well-to-do neighborhood, poor people increase their risk of death, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers to be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. "We tend to assume that people living in a high...

Part One - http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2006/11/02/512352.html A police bomb squad raced across Norway by helicopter Thursday to investigate a mysterious, wired package that turned out to be a discarded Halloween prop left behind by a young man who had dressed...

Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer criticized Gov. George W. Bush for making fun of an executed Texas woman in an interview Bush gave to Talk magazine. "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the governor of a major state running for president thought it was acceptable to...

I purchased a flat panel monitor and two weeks later a little white dot appeared on the screen. A few days after that I sent the monitor back and bought a different brand at a different store. But the little white dot was still there. I just recently bought a new graphics card, the previous one...

Hi go to this link. He refers to Randi`s work at the end.Comments? http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/skeptics.htm :)

Consider: Bangladesh has incurred the deaths of hundreds of thousands of it's residents by flood and....giant hailstones! (And Bangladesh is in the tropics!) Consider: Trailer courts...often a harborage for societies low-life misfits... actract tornadoes in a way that magnets attract iron...

He does have a point.

Suppose that a very poor country revised all of its laws to make them consistent with Libertarianism. Of course, the country would not immediately become wealthy. The country might have many malnourished children whose parents are simply too poor to provide the children with proper nutrition...

link to article I don't know about you, but for me, Karla Homolka's personal safety is at the top of the list of my priorities. :rolleyes:

A pared down "computer" to replace bulky, grey desktop PCs could help close global digital inequalities. Not-for-profit developers, Ndiyo - the Swahili word for "yes" - said it could open up the potential of computing to two billion more people. The sub-£100 box, called Nivo, runs on...

Hey all: Julian Sanchez over at Reason wrote the following piece on how the Bible-beaters have hopped on the "victim" bandwagon and includes his thoughts as to why. http://www.reason.com/links/links122004.shtml Please, discuss if you will.

Just heard this one on NPR while driving into work. I am not much for poetry, but this one hits home today. The Poor Voter on Election Day To-day, of all the weary year, A king of men am I. To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The...

The greenhouse effect could wreck attempts to lift the world's poorest people out of poverty and reverse human progress, campaigners say. A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat. The Working Group on Climate Change and Development...

Minn.: Stamp Out Junk Food Buys The state of Minnesota is asking federal permission to bar people from using food stamps to buy candy bars, soda and other junk food. The change would still need the approval of the Legislature, where some anti-poverty activists call it a mean-spirited...

Ok, to be fair I did not start a new thread when I left. I simply said goodbye in a thread that I did not start. I really did not make a big deal about it. I did not know that Hal was going to post my request to disable my account so I really did not intend for any drama. That being said, I'm...

What other explanation could there be? Try harder next time.

Does anybody else find it misleading that a constant cry of the left (BTW, I'd count myself on that side of the fence, although only by about foot or so) is how great the divide between the rich and poor is getting? I don't know if I just don't understand something (entirely possible, in which...

I feel very sorry for Joseph, husband to Mary, mother of Jesus. After all, god did have sex with his wife.

Came across this book by David Limbaugh: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895261111/townhallcom/102-5716386-0426510 Poor Christians, beseiged by those nasty "Liberals". Typically, the ammo used to support his thesis is common-sense offending anecdotes. You could use anecdotes...