Black Voices. (Black Voices) If you happen to be into soaps, you know that there aren't that many African Americans on a show. To have at least 5 on one show would be amazing. That means one of the characters have family and in soaps families go a long, long, way....more...Peek at McDonald's workings (Everett Herald) MUKILTEO - In line at McDonald's one morning, scoring a $1 sausage egg McMuffin on sale, there were five cars in the drive-through lane. A bubbly young man wearing a headset took orders and made change as vehicles rolled past his window....more... Young writers drawn to camp (San Antonio Express-News) Gemini Ink program encourages youths to open their minds....more... Walter C. Uhler: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons (HuffingtonPost) By her willingness to contemplate the use of nuclear weapons, Senator Clinton appears ready, if elected president, to add her name to the long list of presidents who have contemplated such use....more... Zimbabwe: Of Male Circumcision (AllAfrica.com) WITH a lot of hype and noise, the "new" UNAids/WHO policy on male circumcision to form an additional preventive against a seemingly unstoppable pandemic of HIV infection, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, was announced in May this year....more... Grandparents get the kids (Wisconsin State Journal) Golden years revert to Golden Book years, as grandparents such as Cebby Koepke, Wendy VanDusen and Pat Harrison find themselves raising grandchildren, more likely reading "The Poky Little Puppy" than travel guides, theater programs and restaurant menus. "All of a sudden, I'm starting to feel like a mom," said Koepke, 59, who has been raising her grandson for the past two years in Marshall and is ......more... Retail Notebook: New development didn't mean the end of the old (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Ostroms Drug & Gift looked like a victim of yet another mixed-use development in Kenmore until a determined neighborhood-oriented owner, inspired by an outpouring of local support, found a new home....more... Westminster snubs SNP's amnesty plan for asylum seekers in Scotland (The Scotsman) AN ATTEMPT by the SNP-led Scottish Executive to secure an amnesty for 1,400 asylum-seeking families in Scotland has been rejected by UK ministers, it emerged last night....more... Long Distance Relationships (AskMen) Keep your options open when entering a long-distance relationship This weeks question comes from a guy who has a mission from God and is leaving a gorgeous keeper behind....more... |