Gay families struggle to safeguard adopted kids

Source: Columbus Dispatch

The caseworkers who conducted the pre-adoption home studies treated Ray and Matt Lees as a couple. Results of background checks and financial reviews and observations about their relationship and the condit ...
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Comparably, military marriages stay strong in face of challenges

Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Despite being tested by long hours and frequent relocations and separations, military marriages are no more likely to end in divorce than civilian marriages, a new study shows. Even with the increase in lo ...
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Giving Back: Cancer in the crosshairs; awards, scholarships

Source: MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

Major efforts are under way in Palm Springs to make empty storefronts a thing of the past, but...- 1:10 am The friends and family members washing cars Saturday to raise money for a funeral for Zia Hoyos...- 1:03 am Jorge Barrera had a pair of box ...
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1 in 5 Americans Will Get Skin Cancer. Here's How To Protect Yourself

Source: The Huffington Post

By Chai Woodham, for U.S. News You know you've reached the zenith of pop culture zaniness when Saturday Night Live parodies you. That's exactly what happened to Patricia Krentcil, the overly bronzed New Jersey mom facing second-degree c ...
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Wendy Brill, Jonathan Stahl - Weddings

Source: The New York Times

Wendy Rebecca Brill and Jonathan Michael Stahl were married Friday at the Stein Eriksen Lodge, a hotel in Park City, Utah. Rabbi Sharon Brous officiated. Dr. Stahl, 29, is to start her internship in psychiatry residency in J ...
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Source: The New York Times

Dr. Shivani Chopra, a daughter of Neelam and Jagdish Chopra of Orange, Calif., was married Saturday to Dr. Vinod Tony Kannarkat, the son of Devi Kannarkat and Dr. Tony P. Kannarkat of Potomac, Md. The Rev. Paul Kannarkat, a Roman Catho ...
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Empty Gate Zen Buddhist Center takes American approach to Korean Buddhism

Source: The Buddhist Channel

Home > The Americas > US West "We're making more of an online presence," Quinn said. "I find the Internet fascinating. A lot of people complain about the Internet and how it sucks your energy, but I wanted to figure out how to us ...
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Union still faces difficult odds against Target

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Even as a union won the right to hold a new election to represent workers at a Target store in New York last week, the company's allegedly improper behavior to defeat the first effort last year may have been enough to keep th ...
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Why We Lie (from WSJ)

Source: Predictably Irrational

We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little—right up to the point where they lose their sense of integrity. Not too long ago, one of my students, named Peter, told me a story t ...
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