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EssayWorks
May 1, 2013
- Andrew ThompsonThey threw me out of here recently. It was an honest mistake on my part, really.I love this bar more than any other place I've ever spent money.
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EssayWorks
April 30, 2013
- Pamela J. ForsytheRemember when the weather was just a couple of quiet minutes at the end of the news? A few words about warm or cold fronts, high and lows, how the weekend looked, and goodnight.
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EssayWorks
April 29, 2013
- Ilene Raymond RushWhen I mentioned that I might need to meditate no one — not my husband, my friends, or my therapist — disagreed. Yes! They crowed. Universally, they rushed in, heads nodding, extolling Zen gurus, experiences with '60s TM, and mindfulness sessions with Jon Cabot Zinn. They dropped off guided mindfulness CDs, located classes, and offered meditation groups.
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EssayWorks
April 29, 2013
- Benjamin SafranI have joined a campaign at my college, Haverford, to call for our endowment to be divested from fossil fuel companies. We believe our college's investment choices today need not be our investment choices of tomorrow, and that is fair to insist that institutions like colleges take significant collective action on climate change.
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Asked & Answered
April 26, 2013
- NewsWorks StaffIs the FEMA advisory building height for the Jersey Shore flood zone based on sea level or ground level? asks a NewsWorks reader, noting that North Wildwood is five feet above sea level. WHYY'sTracey Samuelson has an answer.
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Asked & Answered
April 26, 2013
- NewsWorks StaffA NewsWorks reader wrote in with a question after reading our recent story on thestate of the U.S. Senate's plan on immigration reform: "What are the different steps for the immigration talks to become law. In how many weeks, months or years from now will an undocumented alien be allowed to apply?"
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EssayWorks
April 25, 2013
- Ilene Raymond RushWe are gardening neighbors, dog walking neighbors, neighbors who wave hello from one another's lawns.No one would have mistaken us for friends.But one day last week, I was out walking my mini-Schnauzer and, spotting her, stopped to say hello. "Everything good?" I asked, expecting the usual innocuous reply. Instead she gave a little crooked shrug, sighed, and — to my complete astoni...
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That's History
April 23, 2013
- Jonathan ZimmermanHere's a quick quiz, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: What are the two most commonly used forms of birth control in the United States?
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EssayWorks
April 23, 2013
- Kishwer Vikaas @PhillygrrlWhether we admit it or not, many of us are conditioned to fear meddling and to think that intruding on someone else's household somehow crosses the line of decency. Look straight ahead, do your own thing and whatever you do, don't get involved. When is interfering in a parent-child interaction okay?
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EssayWorks
April 23, 2013
- Mary Jo KcKeonIt was the middle of 1996, a few days after the bombing at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. It was also the middle of the night, the hours when things are prepared on morning news programs.
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