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Movies and music up on the roof
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Critically injured bias attack victim about to lose health insurance
June 29, 2010
French prof was brutally beaten after a Gay Pride parade in Albany and spent the past two weeks in the ICU. His teaching contract expires this summer, and with it his health insurance. http://ht.ly/24QUm
Study: Abstinence-Only Lunch Programs Ineffective At Combating Teen Obesity (tx, Twanna)
June 28, 2010
WASHINGTON—According to the findings of a recent Department of Health and Human Services study, school lunch programs that teach children to avoid all contact with food may not be an effective method of reducing teen obesity rates. Students at Culver Junior High are taught the dangers of eating even one tater tot. Despite the popularity […]
Findings – Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
June 28, 2010
In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that the rogue bursts of activity on brain scans kept interfering with their studies of more important mental functions. But now that researchers have been […]
new york journal of books: In a Dark Wood by Marcel Möring, Translated by Shaun Whiteside
June 28, 2010
(Harper Collins, February 16, 2010) Marcel Möring’s In a Dark Wood is a highly literary, imaginative, and experimental novel that explores large themes—including Jewish identity after the Holocaust and the search for meaning amid the emptiness and rewards of middle-class existence—in inventive ways. Möring is a fine prose stylist, and much of the book is […]
Sen Gillibrand to address NYC gay shul’s Pride Shabbat service tonight
June 25, 2010
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JCRC-NY marks 4th anniversary of Gilad Shalit’s capture by trying to send him messages
June 25, 2010
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