Nov 20, 2009 -
There are three new photo contests on Lenzr.com for the months of October and December 2009 !
Photographers look sharp - there's something for everyone to focus on here.
Medicinal Plants in Nature celebrates botanical photography and hopes to collect images of natural medicine growing wild in the great outdoors.
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Nov 17, 2009 -
New mammogram guidelines raise questions
Benefits of screening before age 50 don't outweigh risks, task force says
updated 7:39 a.m. CT, Tues., Nov . 17, 2009
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever
By Peter Ferrara on 11.11.09 @ 6:08AM
"The Worst Bill Ever." That is the title the always calm and rational Wall Street Journal put on its editorial on November 1 about the government health care takeover bill that passed the House last week on virtually a party line vote, 220-215. But even this label doesn't fully communicate the outright assault on the American people involved in this legislation.
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Nov 09, 2009 -
Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman.
But the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — and Scozzafava’s departure raises fresh questions about the GOP’s ability to recruit, elect and even tolerate the sort of moderate women who used to be part of its ruling mainstream.
While Republicans scored a pair of impressive electoral victories in New Jersey and Virginia with solid support among female voters, the events of the last week offer harbingers of serious trouble ahead with the largest swing voter bloc in the country — women.
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Nov 07, 2009 -
Spacekatdude and I are married, so we're always tooking for fun new things to do. Recently, we decided to give indoor rock climbing a shot! We totally loved it!
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Oct 26, 2009 -
Beauty Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to CoherenceAs any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.Tara GradyA person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.UnknownThose who look for beauty, find it.Margaret Wolfe HungerfordBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.Mary Baker EddyThe recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.Marlene Dietrich[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. VallyBeauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.John ConstableThere is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. Remy de GourmontThe ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.John Fitzgerald KennedyI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. Virginia WoolfThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Cliff RichardOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. ChazalThe beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Lucille S.
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Oct 18, 2009 -
Not Truthful, Just Gore
By Paul Chesser
A viral buzz is probably not something you want to have in these days of H1N1 (swine flu) paranoia.
But if you're Ann McElhinny and Phelim McAleer this week it's not a malady, but a desired condition. That's because Sunday marks the formal public introduction to their film documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong," which follows their 2006 joint effort "Mine Your Own Business."
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Oct 12, 2009 -
Conspicuous consumption penetrated United States post-WWII as an outcome of modernity. Mass consumption of houses, automobiles and manufactured goods infused Middle America. Captivation with materialism exhibited itself in the purchases of houses.
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Oct 10, 2009 -
What a gorgeous cover! And here's the translation of the interview:
We attended the Cannes Film Festival when we were told we were going to interview the It Vampire. Yes, Robert Pattinson!
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Oct 09, 2009 -
Decline Is a Choice
The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
by Charles Krauthammer
The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch.
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