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Bereavement expert Dr. Katherine Shear reveals what happens inside the grieving brain and offers strategies for coping with loss.
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Columbia bereavement therapist Dr. Katherine Shear discusses her personal encounters with the emotion at the heart of her work.
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If a tiger ran in the room, says Dr. Katherine Shear, we’d all have one. Fortunately, like the tiger, panic attacks can be tamed.
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Duke University Professor Donald H. Taylor, Jr. says the worst health care policy option is the status quo.
It is becoming increasingly common knowledge that our world is on the brink of an unprecedented environmental crisis. However slow the reaction has been, it is beginning to take tangible […]
In what was a remarkable turnaround—and a huge victory for progressives—last week, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill that includes a provision for a government-run program, […]
How do you know someone’s just caught the jazz bug? According to Village Voice critic and “Jazz” author Gary Giddins, when Ken Burns started loving Louis Armstrong as a fan […]
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Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver discusses the expansion of children’s rights through athletic competition.
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According to Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics, legislation in the last twenty years has done much to open opportunities to children with intellectual disabilities.
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Comparing the U.S.-Mexico border fence to the Berlin Wall, Dick Armey urges the GOP to renounce the “mean spirit” that has alienated minority voters.
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Tea Party backer Dick Armey believes the movement that ousted a Republican Congressional candidate is actually resolving the party’s “massive identity crisis.”
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Former Congressman Dick Armey maps out a Middle Eastern strategy that can help Republicans win their domestic battles.
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“She’s everything that Hillary Clinton pretends to be: an independent woman making her own way on her own terms,” says Dick Armey.
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If you want to be a winning Republican, says Dick Armey, rally voters around economic policy and keep quiet about social issues like abortion and gay marriage.
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The ex-Congressman and onetime economics professor lashes both Republicans and Democrats for their role in the financial meltdown.
What if you could clean a load of dirty clothes and linens with just a spoonful of laundry detergent and a single cup of water? As soon as late 2010, […]
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If Gerald Chertavian could do dinner with anybody, it would be the great civil rights activist, whose insights into social justice and grassroots organization have proven timeless.