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Uniquely Yours

May 1, 2009
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My friend Vinod Savanth is an animal lover with a heart as big as Texas. He treats his three dogs well and is a responsible pet owner. He has a long commute, as many of us do. And on that commute, he frequently sees dogs and cats injured by cars. Traffic is so heavy where [...]

Welcome Home!

March 1, 2009
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One of the most joyful and most difficult time in a family’s life is frequently the transition process of bringing a new baby into the home. Parents are keenly focused on the the due date… on prepping the nursery, on getting to the hospital (or getting the midwife to the house on time), and on [...]

The bittersweet taste of chocolate

November 3, 2008
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How many people think about where the cocoa in the chocolate comes from? In many countries, there are awareness campaigns running attempting to educate people about this. According to a study in 2002 by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, more than a quarter of a million African children are behind the West Africa cocoa [...]

Is this the end of reading?

November 3, 2008
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According to the National Endowment for the Arts’s survey of reading habits, in 1982, 56.9 per cent of Americans had read a literary book in the previous year. This fell to 54% in 1992, and 46.7 percent in 2002. When television was introduced in the Netherlands, reading time plummeted from 5 hours per week to [...]