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You’re in a low-paying job, have few prospects and know there’s more to you than that job. You want a profession, a career. You want to be recognized. You want to be somebody.

What do you do? You might become an expert. An expert in what you ask. It doesn’t matter. Pick any subject, any area, any activity. Any one single thing. What you pick doesn’t necessarily have to interest you now in a great way. In time, interest will grow. You will be absorbed by what ever it is. Yes, you will.

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Snipped from FreeRice.com.

Don’t have enough money to donate to all the starving children in the world? Well, instead of money, how about smarts? Are you smart enough to feed the hungry? Here is a site that allegedly feeds the hungry with rice that you win during a game of vocabulary skills. I have no clue if this is actually real or not, but it is quite fun and educational. Try it out, and you can flaunt your vocabulary level and how much rice you have earned in the comments section below.

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Snipped from DailyMail.co.uk.

Some of the arguers against evolution ask, “Well, if evolution exists, where are the species that are evolving themselves? Or middle-species?” Well, although there doesn’t need to be a middle species, this story may give a debater of evolution some ammunition. If a middle species is what you want then a killfish (among many more, but let’s stick with this one) is what you get. Here is a fish that is adapting has adapted to surviving outside of water for longer than thought possible.

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Our cheerful Condi Rice.
Photo by AP.

Gertrude Stein might say, “A Genocide is a Genocide is a Genocide.” Congress wants to label the Armenian massacre as a “genocide.” Why not? Democrats call a spade a spade. For Republicans like President Bush, it’s NO WAY!

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What are we doing
to our kids?

So do we understand them? Obviously not!

What we understand as fact about our very own children may be completely wrong and not only confusing our teens, but making them worse. As a teen, you are bombarded by everything and everyone that conveys to you that you are not ready — ready to drink, ready to drive, ready to have sex, ready for responsibility, ready for life. Adults say that even though you feel you are ready, you are not, and that is just fact. So teens are caught in this limbo of life. You feel invincible, ready to take everything on and experience what life has to offer, and then bam! You are faced with extreme opposition from society — “you’re not ready!”, they say.

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Snipped from dailymail.co.uk.

Holy smokes this girl is smart. As Matilda, the smart two year old, grew up, she amazed her parents with things that children her age were not supposed to be able to do. She started crawling early, walking early, talking early, dabbling in French early — yea, she was already conquering English so… After Matilda watched Beauty and the Beast with her parents, she mentioned how she did not like Gaston, the villain in the movie, because he was “mean and arrogant.” This obvious use of advanced language motivated her parents to question where she might need to go to school. So they sent her to “Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist educational psychologist, for advice.”

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