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Beyond Barbie: Mattel's monster of an assault on girls
by Susan Linn, Ed.D
A new study ads heft to the argument that girls are entering puberty earlier than ever before. No one knows why more
The hazards of tossing labeled pill bottles in trash bins
Stealing from trash has become the great American pastime! Not only is it a headache for residents, it’s a pain to clean up the mess ...
Stay-at-home dads - an afterthought
If there are any men who deserve to be remembered on Father’s Day, it’s the often maligned or overlooked stay-at-home dads. Not that dads, who carry ...
"Pay to lose" means losing wins
Dieting for dollars! Now there’s an idea I can sink my teeth into while eating and drinking to it. More and more companies are offering their ...
Gunned down in basic training
by Dr. Richard Darling, DDS Of course all those shots you got while in the service were meant to protect you from some really ...
Mother’s Day (for Peace)
Over the years, the feminist call for peace in Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 proclamation for a Mother’s Day for Peace became lost. Today, thanks to ...
Old folks get no respect, even when they commit crimes
Somehow it's difficult, no! nearly impossible, to get upset over San Diego's "Geezer Bandit."Apparently the FBI isn't all that riled up about it either, because ...
Pasadena’s Colorado St. Bridge known as “suicide bridge”
The Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, has earned the unwelcome reputation of “suicide bridge,” and urban legend has it that it's haunted. Since its completion in 1913, ...Commentary: Reading stories on health can be detrimental to one's health
If you are a person who believes every health study you read even though you don’t know who paid for it or what ax they ...
Livin' on the fault line
Did you feel it? That was the question that echoed through halls, malls, and everywhere people gathered in Southern California the day after the 7.2 ...Corporate complaints over loss of tax write-offs under insurance reform unfounded
No one said it would be pretty. But something had to change. Under the health insurance reform plan signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday ...
SCOTUS ruling: Is Clean Water Act only valid for navigable waters?
The interim goal of the Clean Water Act (CWA) was swimmable and fishable waters by 1983 and the final goal was the elimination of all ...
Be alert to the rise in medical identity fraud
We’ve all heard of identity theft, but until this headline, “Avoiding medical identity theft to be discussed” in the Pasadena Star News caught my eye, ...
Will Bill Gates solve the world’s energy crisis?
As we all know, a quick look at the history of the world demonstrates that someone always has the happy knack of turning up with ...
The Great Climate Debate commits suicide
I suppose that many of you are just as mystified as I am as to how the (albeit minimal) hopes of finally seeing some concrete ...
California is first state to legislate deep cuts in wait times to see HMO doctors
Waiting too long for a medical appointment? California will cut wait time to between 10 and 15 days. Unfortunately, it could take nearly a year ...Would health care reform help you?
Many obstacles and stumbling blocks remain in the way of health care reform. The House and Senate bills will have to be merged, and then ...Scott Roeder trial: Anti-abortion extremist couldn’t kill the law
Sometimes it feels like normal, law-abiding people have to work to exhaustion just to stay in place. Today was one of those days. A Kansas jury ...
Flesh & Stone coverage of the H1N1 pandemic
By and large, U.S. media has shown a lack of curiosity about the economic and political aspects of the H1N1 drama. The view from out ...
Inequalities: When the Summers of our discontent said XX<XY in math and science
Robert Kuttner is the latest in a series of people calling for the head of Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, for example ...
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