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Parenting workshop teaches how to promote self-reliance in teens
Last year, bad weather scuttled the chance for parents to learn how to avoid overstepping boundaries, which can impede their child's academic self reliance. On Thursday, parents will have the opportunity to hear Brad Sachs, a Columbia-based...Tags: Teen-agers, People
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Middle school for boys part of a trend toward single-sex education
The boys in the seventh-grade classroom wave their hands wildly and squirm in their seats, unable to contain their joy in a competition involving singular and plural nouns. Their teacher seems undaunted by the outbursts of cheering. These are boys, after...Tags: Prince George's County, Academic Progress, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Colleges and Universities, Technology
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A pioneer in teaching Russian to high schoolers
Earlier this week, I wrote about the death of Joseph Glus, 84, a longtime Charles Village resident who was hired as the first Russian-language teacher by Baltimore County's public schools in 1959. Mr. Glus, who was the son of immigrant parents from the...Tags: History, Colleges and Universities, Oakland (Alameda, California), Awards and Prizes, Charles Village
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Visitation-rights ruling breaks new ground for gay couples
In all but one way, the visitation-rights case that was decided in Baltimore County Circuit Court last week was typical of the legal wrangling that follows many a divorce - a couple splits up, the custodial parent doesn't want the ex to see the kid....Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Gays and Lesbians, Parent and Child, Court Administration, Marriage
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Gay adoption not wrong
Responding to the letter on Tuesday, Oct. 7, "Gay adoption ban a moral must," it's difficult to know where to begin. There are undesirables in every group of people, and to think that every loving, committed, gay person falls into that category is...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Wilton Manors, Minority Groups, Adoption
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Connecticut Week In Review: Stocks Drop, Gay Rights Rise
Wall Street was the infernal engine that drove the news in Connecticut last week. At a stultifying debate in Nashville, the presidential candidates blamed one another for failing to recognize warning signs of the greed that has crippled credit markets...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Local Authority, Court Administration, Denise Nappier, Government
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Wedding Smarts
Of The Morning CallAnnouncing to friends and family that you're engaged, well, there's little that elicits bigger squeals of delight or heartier slaps on the back. Or more sleepless nights worrying about your checking account balance, more fantasies about robbing a bank .....Tags: Public Employees, Fogelsville, Marriage, Government, Yuengling
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Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul
The Hartford CourantFor years, Beth Kerrigan tried to talk herself out of being gay. The daughter of devout Irish Catholics, Kerrigan kept her sexuality a secret from her family. She pretended the boys she windsurfed, skied and biked with were boyfriends. If female...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Local Authority, Court Administration, Minority Groups, Mother's Day
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Guantanamo prosecutor who quit had 'grave misgivings' about fairness
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDarrel J. Vandeveld was in despair. The hard-nosed lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, a self-described conformist praised by his superiors for his bravery in Iraq, had lost faith in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals in which he was a...Tags: Academic Progress, Human Rights, Defense, Armed Forces, Terrorism
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Her hope, and then her curse
Chicago Tribune reporterI always dreamed that when I grew up I would marry . . . the man of my dream, tall, dark & handsome, educated with a great job." —Kimberly Garnett, in a college essay It must have looked like Kimberly Garnett's dream had just walked into the Club...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Millennium Park, Chicago Transit Authority, Transportation, McCormick Place
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Handyman's history
757-247-4952When Bob Williams walked away from the white-collar world in 1991, he was trying to escape nearly 20 years of living with toxic corporate stress. Virtually every morning, he'd wake up sick to his stomach from anxiety, the former ship repair and marine...Tags: Academic Progress, Colleges and Universities, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Behavioral Conditions, Historic Jamestowne
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Woman resists half-sister's effort to make a connection
DEAR ABBY: My father left my mother for a woman I'll call "Sheila" he met at work. I was only 7. My brother was 9 at the time; he committed suicide at the age of 20. My father and Sheila eventually married and had four children who are now grown. Their...Tags: Suicide
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