How to Rebuild an Attention Span

How to Rebuild an Attention Span
In an overall review of those claims, the Stanford Center on Longevity previously warned that an exploitative hard sell for products from computer training to supplements ranged “from reasonable though untested to blatantly false.” There were few …
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Institutionalization as "Alternative Lifestyle": Susan Nussbaum's "Good Kings …
Nussbaum's characters all inhabit the euphemistically titled Illinois Learning and Life Skills Center (ILLC – "Emphasis on "ill"); a modern day "state-of-the-art" facility promoting itself as a "lifestyle alternative" choice for kids with disabilities …
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8 Myths That Media Trackers Wants Inserted In Medicaid Coverage
Media Trackers highlighted a March 5 report by the conservative Mercatus Center's Charles Blahous which warned states not to adopt Medicaid expansion because the federal government won't be able to provide funding. [Media Trackers, 9/5/13]. Washington …
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Nearly million awarded in Illinois inmate death suit
A judge has awarded nearly $ 1 million to the family of a Nigerian immigrant who died in a Chicago federal jail in 2007 awaiting trial on drugs charges. Habib Solebo died following a seizure in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell. The 23-year-old …
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