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Josey Vogels

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Sex Surveys Have Become More Popular Than Actually Doing it

Josey Vogels | Posted June 30, 2011 | Canada


When faced with the issue of erectile dysfunction, only 43 per cent of Canadian couples said they talked to their partner about the issue, 12 per cent said they talked to their physician and 27 per cent said they didn't talk to anyone, according to a recent study by

Sue Frause

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First Stop for William and Kate on Royal Tour: Ottawa

Sue Frause | Posted June 30, 2011 | Canada


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The Peace Tower rises above the government buildings of Parliament Hill. Sue Frause photo.

It's no surprise that Ottawa is the first stop on the 2011 Royal Tour of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (a.k.a William and Kate)....

Floyd J. Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D.

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Addressing Childhood Asthma -- and the Millions That Have It

Floyd J. Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted June 30, 2011 | Healthy Living


"Nero fiddled while Rome burned" is a phrase I often use to describe irresponsible behavior in the midst of a crisis.

For many of us who are invested in and committed to the fight against childhood asthma in this country, it's clear that we are in the midst of...

Peggy McColl

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Are You Working Backwards to Accomplish Your Goals?

Peggy McColl | Posted June 30, 2011 | Business


So you have a new product or service in mind. You have thought through the content you will be presenting. Now what? How are you planning to accomplish your goal? How will all of the pieces fall into place?

This is usually the stage in which I am contacted by...

Meghan Overdeep

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Won Over by The Voice

Meghan Overdeep | Posted June 30, 2011 | Entertainment


As Javier Colon stood teary-eyed beneath pyrotechnics and a waterfall of confetti, I'll admit that I also eked out a tear or two.

Alright, so maybe three or four.

And when Colon's proud coach, Adam Levine, ran onstage to envelop him in what looked like a truly...

Derek Shearer

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Obama and Rising Powers: Foreign Policy in Tough Economic Times

Derek Shearer | Posted June 30, 2011 | Politics


Does Obama have a coherent foreign policy -- and does it matter?

Tufts professor Daniel Drezner discusses these questions in the current issue of Foreign Affairs and answers in the affirmative. Drezner, who is well known for his witty treatise on Zombie theories of...

Marc Solomon

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How We Won New York

Marc Solomon | Posted June 30, 2011 | New York


On Monday, June 13th, I arrived in Albany for what turned into a two-week marathon. From the first day when I -- along with fellow advocates -- made the recommendation to Governor Cuomo to move the marriage legislation forward, to this past Friday night when I had the honor of...

Michael Giltz

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Theater: Cirque Du Soleil's Zarkana Murky But Fun At Radio City

Michael Giltz | Posted June 30, 2011 | Entertainment


ZARKANA ** out of ****
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

The troupe Cirque du Soleil is a victim of its own success. Cirque virtually reinvented the circus for modern audiences. But over the years so many of their new shows have popped up all over the...

Nathan Gardels

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Eric X. Li: A New China Looks at the West

Nathan Gardels | Posted June 30, 2011 | World



BEIJING -- In the decades since the end of the Cold War, American-led globalization has so thoroughly transformed the world through the freer flow of trade, capital, information and the spread of technology that it has given birth to a new phase: Globalization 2.0.

Far from a...

Sam Kitchener

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The Limitations of Law Enforcement

Sam Kitchener | Posted June 30, 2011 | Comedy


James 'Whitey' Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for his alleged role in 19 murders, has been captured near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years.

Bulger, 81, was the leader of the Winter Hill gang and a top-level FBI informant...

Roseanne Colletti

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Gossip Gram: Celebrity Crushes, Curves, and Heartbreaks

Roseanne Colletti | Posted June 30, 2011 | Entertainment








New York Non-Stop's Roseanne Colletti and Bonnie Fuller of HollywoodLife.com catch up on the latest celebrity buzz involving Selena and Justin's summer romance, Shia's fling with Megan Fox, and 'Mad Men' star Christina Hendricks' sexy curves.












Dan Rather

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A Billion Dollar Blunder?

Dan Rather | Posted June 30, 2011 | Business


What if you made a 1.5 billion dollar mistake and couldn't take it back? According to recently unearthed court documents, one of the world's most prestigious law firms may soon face this question, and everyone from the federal government to one of Wall Street's biggest banks wants to know the...

Kevin Salwen

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When Bibles Have Typos, Let There Be Blight

Kevin Salwen | Posted June 30, 2011 | Comedy


The email I received this week from Amazon started innocently enough:
"Hello, we're writing about your past Kindle purchase of The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles. The version you received had typos that have been corrected."

The email went on to offer a free Kindle...

Gov. Martin O'Malley

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A Balanced Approach

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted June 30, 2011 | Politics


President Obama cannot and should not agree to the false choices being disingenuously laid out by Congressional Republican pretenders.

We must pay our bills on time, and we must retire the Bush deficit over time. And we must do this with a balanced approach that allows us to create and...

Joshua Stanton

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Proposed Circumcision Ban is Bad for Religion and Medicine

Joshua Stanton | Posted June 30, 2011 | Religion


Critics of circumcision regularly hurl insults at the ancient practice. Calling circumcision "male genital mutilation" has become trendy, while calling it a "sacred ritual" or citing its likely health benefits has gone out of vogue.

Yet most American Jews and Muslims are circumcised for religious...

Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C.

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Should You Rethink the Complex Carbs in Your Diet?

Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C. | Posted June 30, 2011 | Healthy Living


Take all the "white stuff" out of your diet. You've read it in popular magazines, heard it from your friends and even from the lips of Oprah, the long reigning queen of day time television. Taking away all things white from your diet -- bread, pasta, bakery items and sugar...

Justin Snider

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Preparing Teachers for a Lifetime in the Classroom

Justin Snider | Posted June 30, 2011 | Education


"It takes a lot to be a teacher," Luke Carman says. "Every decision that is being made, you're simultaneously doing 17,000 other things. It requires a lot of intellectual forethought, persistence and energy."

Carman, 23, has spent the past two years preparing for a career in the classroom through the...

Amb. Marc Ginsberg

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Hey My Fellow Yanks, July 1 Is Canada Day

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted June 30, 2011 | World


Normally, we Americans don't have good cause to go out of our way to hoist a mug to toast someone else's independence day. But how about stretching our 4th of July fireworks fuse a bit by adding a belated congrats to our "true north" (a phrase from "O Canada") Canadian...

The Daily Meal

Pre-Game Superstitions of Pro Athletes

The Daily Meal | Posted June 30, 2011 | Food


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We all fall prey to superstitions like not walking under a ladder or opening an umbrella indoors. But they are probably not as exacting as the ones professional athletes abide by -- especially when it comes to food on game days. If...

Michael Rugnetta

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Disparities in Health: Biomedical Research and the Latino Community

Michael Rugnetta | Posted June 30, 2011 | Healthy Living


Click here to read this article in Spanish.

Click here to read Rugnetta's full report, "Addressing Race and Genetics: Health Disparities in the Era of Personalized Medicine."

Latinos suffer from wide ranging health disparities in comparison to non-Hispanic whites. They
are twice as likely, for...

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