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A Breed Apart Susan Bulanda
Category: Focus on Pets Published: January 2014
"Never forget that your puppy is a commitment for the next 10 to 18 years. It can be delightful or a disaster, depending on you and how thoroughly you have done your homework."
 
A Moral Educaiton from C.S. Lewis Gilbert Meilaender
Category: Education Published: January 2014
"For those who stand within the Tao, how we live counts for more than how long."
 
Be Smart If You Can Vickie Milazzo
Category: Life in America Published: January 2014
". . . One reason social media is so addicting: it is like experiencing human hugs all day long."
 
Escaping Iran to Save Israel Jonathan Bloomfield
Category: Literary Scene Published: January 2014
". . . Innocent Iranians were going to die because their government decided to build nuclear reactors next to them. It was either their death or another Jewish Holocaust."
 
Eyes Wide Shut on ObamaCare Eric Tyson
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2014
"As a financial counselor, I only can advise individuals to educate themselves, seek out the best value for their needs and their wallet, and go into this transaction--like any transaction--with their eyes open."
 
God's Double Agent in China Bob Fu
Category: Literary Scene Published: January 2014
"After our experience of prison and house arrest, death was not the worst option, but now Heidi and I had reason to fight for life--she was pregnant."
 
Gridiron Glory Wasn't Always So John J. Miller
Category: Athletic Arena Published: January 2014
"[Sports, especially football] not only make us distinctively American, they make us better Americans."
 
Health Care's Epic Battle Quint Studer
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2014
"Thanks to health reform and other disruptive forces, it is hard to know what lies over the horizon and tough to predict and plan for next month, let along next year."
 
Iran Flexes Its Nuclear Muscle Ben Brunson
Category: Worldview Published: January 2014
"The irony of all this is that Iran's history and culture align its people more with the West than any Muslim nation other than Turkey."
 
Learning the Lessons of Mandela Sherine Vie
Category: Worldview Published: January 2014
Nelson Mandela, like Mahatma Gandhi, has left us a legacy that "we should empower the hunger and the weak so that they can learn to feed and strengthen themselves and contribute to the well being of others."
 
ObamaCare Business Blues: What? So What? Now What? Glenda Eoyang
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2014
". . . Is is time to stop awfulizing [and] break your [Patient Protection and] Affordable Care Act paralysis."
 
Pacreatic Cancer: Can Old Research Provide New Breakthrough? Sylvie Beljanski
Category: Medicine & Health Published: January 2014
". . . The prospect of natural compounds being able to fight chemo-resistant cancer cells and reduce the need for large quantities of toxic drugs keeps everybody excited."
 
Plea Bargaining for Your Life Michelle Gesse
Category: Law & Justice Published: January 2014
"Plunged into the confusing and frightening maze that is the U.S. criminal justice system . . . Individuals often are pressured to admit their 'guilt' and accept a plea bargain."
 
Stepping on the Third Rail of Politics Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2014
". . . The longer we kick the can (of Social Security financial problems) down the road, the bigger that can will become--and, sooner or later, it will become too heave to move."
 
Tackling Concussions Between the Hash Marks Dan Arment
Category: Athletic Arena Published: January 2014
"Wireless helmet sensors, handheld alert monitoring of players at all levels, and biomarker testing are innovations that have moved the game of football forward. . . . We all need to stay committed to making smarter football part of that evolution."
 
The Asterisk (er, Asteroid) on Comets Judith Braffman-Miller
Category: Science & Technology Published: January 2014
"Although comets and asteroids represent two distinct populations of relatively small objects that dance around the sun, certain members of the two groups have masked their secrety very well and cannot easily be categorized as either one or the other."
 
The Phones Are Smart, What About Their Users? Geoffrey Tumlin
Category: Life in America Published: January 2014
"Technology has encouraged communication on our terms and led to an explosion of self-expressive me-first messages [but] what you want to say never is more important than what you want to accomplish."
 
The Real Reason Resolutions Fizzle Brian P. Moran , Michael Lennington
Category: Psychology Published: January 2014
There's always next year--if your year is 12 weeks long.
 
The Theory of Everything Has Nine Dimensions Erin J. Morgart
Category: Science & Technology Published: January 2014
The Sparkling Diamond and Quanta Jewel turn quantum physics--and the nine-pronged world of consciousness--on its ear.
 
This Time It's Different Peter Anthony Sacco
Category: Psychology Published: January 2014
Stop procrastinating yet again through still another year of failed resolutions.
 
Turning the Tables on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2014
". . . The U.S. never can hope to regain its prosperity without restoring individual liberty and freedom of choice, and individual liberty and freedom of choice only can exist if the costly and burdensome Federal regulatory state is dismantled."
 
Who You Calling a Redskin? Paul M. Banks
Category: Athletic Arena Published: January 2014
"Maybe a new name would make the team even more popular and lucrative--and less offensive."
 
Yes, You Can! Well, Maybe . . . Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: American Thought Published: January 2014
". . . One of the dangerous flaws in the modern American myth [is] that you can be whatever you want to be, if only you want it badly enough."