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Like it or not, Western Civilization's great epic poems are being adapted into testosterone-oozing mega productions.  In the past few years we've watched Brad Pitt strut around in a big screen version of "The Iliad" and seen Dante's "Inferno" became a Blockbuster gore-fest of a video game.  I guess we can only wonder how "Paradise Lost" lasted so long.More...

Paradise Lost to Be a 3D Action Flick

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Most Americans would be astonished to learn that of the approximately 12,500 individual chemical ingredients in personal care products, the overwhelming majority has never been reviewed for safety by any governmental or "publicly accountable body."  It is estimated by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics that Americans generally use ten personal care products daily--which can expose them to more than 126 "unique" chemicals.  More than 500 products sold in the United States utilize ingredients banned in Canada, Europe, and Japan.  Hormone disruptors have been found in perfume; chemicals have been identified in umbilical cord blood. Are American consumers being adequately protected?More...

What Price Beauty? New Legislation Seeks Safety Regulations

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In January, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station sent the first real-time tweets from space. Soon after, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (@Astro_Soichi) began tweeting stunning photographs of the view from above back to Earth.Now that Soichi has returned home, NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock (@Astro_Wheels) has continued live-tweeting photos from the ISS.More...

Astronauts' Spectacular Twitter Pictures From Space (PHOTOS)

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On one of the last sweltering days of summer in New York, a group of 21  eager entrepreneurs gathered for an all day boot camp on how to position their fledgling companies to attract investors. For nearly four hours in the morning, they listened intently to impressive panels of experts, talking on "The Key Elements of a Venture Presentation" followed by "Presenting Financials and The Business Models." Among the panelists were representatives from such companies as  Covington & Burling, AOL Ventures, Golden Seeds, Cava Capital, Microsoft, Intel Capital, Grant Thornton  and NBC Universal.This boot camp, ALL THINGS MEDIA, focused on women entrepreneurs in all sectors of the media, is the 21st  annual ritual for Springboard Enterprises, a nonprofit group whose mission is to educate,  coach, and showcase women-led high growth companies seeking equity capital for expansion. Each forum targets a specific business sector; past ones have highlighted  life science and technology companies. Executive director Amy Millman describes their training program as "the best sounding board and support organization for women entrepreneurs who need a network of trusted resources to scale their companies."More...

Spotters for Starter Uppers: Helping CEO's Make the Pitch

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Russia's Prisons Look To Faiths To Bring Moral Guidance

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Here's a philosophical variation of the "if a tree falls in a forest" question for you: if 44 million Americans fall below the poverty line, and no one hears it, do they make any sound?Over the weekend the Washington Post published an article about how little reaction had been expressed over the shocking new statistics showing that 44 million Americans now live in poverty. One in five children are so classified. It is a level of economic suffering unseen in nearly 50 years. Yet it has been greeted mostly with silence from policymakers in both the Administration and Congress. Is anyone calling for bipartisan summit meetings like when the banks were in trouble?  Emergency sessions of Congress or the Council of Economic Advisers?  Don't hold your breath.More...

Child Nutrition: Silence in Response to 44 Million Americans Below the Poverty Line

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Politically, economically, and morally, there is no issue of more importance in this country right now than jobs. One in 10 American workers is officially unemployed, not even counting another 7 percent or so who've given up looking or can only find work part-time. More than a third of the unemployed haven't had work in more than six months.The ongoing unemployment crisis is sapping our country of its strength, jeopardizing its future, and is making every other economic problem facing the nation -- from the foreclosure crisis to the federal deficit -- that much worse.More...

20 Ways To Put America Back To Work Again

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What is truth?  Many teachers throughout time have stated that truth is infinite.  However, I find infinity too broad and vague of a concept to incorporate in everyday life.  I am interested in the how application of universal truths and principles in my day to day affairs.  To anchor truth -- personal truth -- requires clarity.  What is your truth?  When you define your truth, you help to define universal truth.The exploration of personal truth helps to form the foundation of your life.  What do you stand for?  What do you value?  What are your boundaries?  What are you aspiring to become?  These questions among others enable you to define and clarify the standards by which you will measure yourself.  Without truth, you will have no way of knowing whether you are growing or evolving, contributing or taking from life.  Your truth will become a barometer of how well you are doing in life.  If you have not yet affirmed your truth then you will create your life by default.  To live by a code or standard is a form of truth in action in the world.  When you establish that you will respect yourself and others, that is a form of truth.  When you decide that you are worthy of more, is a form of truth.  When you choose to surround yourself with people who are uplifting and inspirational, is a form of truth.  The qualities of respect, worth and inspiration are the truths that you begin to embody in the world.  Armed with your personal truths you move with more ease in the world.  Your life will expand and prosper because of these truths. To identify, to name, to define your personal truths is perhaps the single most important thing you'll ever do in this life.More...

What Is Your Truth?

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There are a few words I could use to describe the Week 2 loss-excuse me, blowout-in Green Bay.-EmbarrassingMore...

Buffalo Bills Lose Bad

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Chris Rock had a joke about black anti-intellectualism that roughly went"those people are keeping it real. Yeah, real stupid!"  One can't help butMore...

The Unbearable Whiteness of Anti-Intellectualism