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FreeRice.com-Help End World Hunger With Your Knowledge – Watch in Higher Quality: www.youtube.com How would you like to help world hunger just by answering a few vocab questions? Its one of the easiest things you can do to help one of our world sufferings. Its so easy to contribute now: www.FreeRice.com Check it out! Press “What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” – Washington Post “Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November 9].” – BBC News “Addictive, yes. But . . . each correct answer results in the donation of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction . . . one with redeeming qualities, something that’s, oh, didactic and edifying.” – Kansas City Star “People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings.” – Christian Science Monitor “FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world ? all for free.” – Los Angeles Times “Freerice.com is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse.” – CBS

 

Jeneé Osterheldt | Beyoncé belongs at the inauguration

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She's seen her in concert, has her music in her iPod and enlisted her help with the Let's Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity. At the Democratic … I know all about the New York City soda ban and the portion cap. Notice that last part: … She's …
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Sideline Talk: Entertaining antics shrouded wisdom of Earl Weaver, Billy Martin

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Martin loved the nightlife and an incident at the Copacabana resulted in the Yankees trading him to Kansas City in 1957. As a manager, there was the nationally … Off the field, Martin was married four times and battled his addiction to alcohol. He …
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Commentary: To improve mental health, we must first understand it

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“Few young people get even a single hour of education about mental illness or addiction, its signs or its treatment. We can't expect people to step forward or to seek help for themselves or a family member when we don't even provide them the …
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