Tag: education
member name: Gary Gentry
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June 15, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
A short story on Gather recently took aim at fat people. Many responders to the author were offended; if so, then you're sure to be offended by the following. But you should read it anyway.
If you . . .
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October 16, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
My mother lived for 30 years in Sun City, AZ, an "adults only" community a few miles west of Phoenix. Founded in . . .
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November 30, 2006 11:06 AM EST --
Recently, six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight headed for Phoenix before take off from Michigan, where they had attended a conference. The facts . . .
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February 26, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
It seems to me that intelligent design cannot really be argued positively. That is, all the arguments for it essentially boil down . . .
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November 01, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
School vouchers appeal to parents who want to send their children to private schools. Many leaders tout them as a cure for the ailments of our public school system.
A few questions, first, please: . . .
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March 29, 2006 12:05 AM EST --
Between March, 1983 and June, 1984 I lived with my family in Bontang on the east coast of Borneo six miles north of the equator, where I worked at the large LNG (Liquefied . . .
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February 24, 2007 03:50 PM EST --
Plebe cadets stand guard duty in the barracks on Friday and Saturday nights, their turn coming up about every two months. You might wonder who we’re guarding against. . . .
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November 11, 2009 12:39 PM EST --
Amy Poehler has started a new on-line show that promotes the idea that girls don't have to play the role of dumb blonde, no matter what their hair . . .
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December 09, 2007 03:26 PM EST --
When Rosa Parks defied long-standing local convention in 1955, I was a 10 year-old living a few miles from Helena in central Alabama, not far from Birmingham. The story was in all the papers . . .
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February 22, 2007 02:23 PM EST --
In the summer of 1963, carrying the pride of my family and my hometown, Renton, Washington, on my eighteen year-old shoulders, I set off for West Point. It was my first time . . .
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January 27, 2006 01:16 PM EST --
Knowledge
When I was seven, I thought that all grownups must know everything there was to know. The evidence was all around me. If I asked my mother a question, she always knew . . .
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