13th April 2008
Some of the futurists are predicting that our youth will be unprepared in science and math to compete successfully in the global economy by 2010 unless we make some drastic changes to education now.
This is just one of the reasons why today's schools a...
03rd April 2008
In 1986 Laurence Stager's archaeological team discovered the ancient pet cemetery of Ascalon dating back to the period of Persian rule (539-332 B.C.) in Palestine. It contained the remains of over 1000 dogs. It is no surprise that pet cemetaries have been...
02nd April 2008
Rumor has it that England's Queen Elizabeth I filled the gaps where she had missing teeth with little rolls of cotton. Years ago, people had few choices if they had bad teeth. They just had to live with it if their teeth were cracked, chipped, missing or ...
28th March 2008
The concept of designing artistic pet cremation urns was founded on Western society's evolution in viewing death over the last century, since the first pet memorial park was established in the state of New York around 1917. Memorializing pets is growing i...
28th March 2008
Independent music artists are often called "Indies," a term used to describe a type of music genre that is characterized by their independence from commercial record labels. Typically Indies go against the current trends and often have an entrepreneurial ...
19th March 2008
Medical practitioners and women alike have become accustomed to talking about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) in menopause medicine. But there is a problem with this terminology. Hormones are not really bio-identical. They can be mimicked...
11th March 2008
Violent and property crime rates at the nation's schools during 2005 were down. 57 such crimes per 1,000 students age 12 or older were statistically unchanged from the 2004 rate of 55 victimizations per 1,000 students.
We see how crime and violence aff...
03rd March 2008
The ancestry of dogs dates back around 40 million years to an animal with five toes like a weasel known as the Miacis, a tree-climbing carnivore. A forebear of the cat, raccoon, bear, hyena, civet, and dog, the Miacis enjoyed living in its own den.
Sma...
29th February 2008
Smokers should know the dangers of tobacco use. Researches also have found that the following problems occur more often in people who use tobacco products: Bad breath, oral cancer, stained teeth, tooth loss, loss of taste, bone loss, gum recession, mouth ...
28th February 2008
It would appear that parents and policymakers around the United States are not happy with with public education. This is why by the year 2005 there were approximately 3,400 charter schools in the United States serving about 800,000 students. Parents want ...
24th February 2008
Cherished as our companions, worshipped as idols, and used for pest control and good luck, cats are more than 9,500 years old. It's been estimated that there are more than 90 million domestic cats in the U.S.
In an April 8, 2004 article in National Geo...
22nd February 2008
Today's musicians,filmmakers, trainers or self help authors are looking for ways to handle their own CD or DVD production and orders by adding e-commerce components to their websites for an online store. The On Demand concept is a system allowing CD and D...
15th February 2008
The subprime market crash has affected minority neighborhoods all over the U.S. Why? The reason is because they were heavily targeted for risky high cost loans. With millions of Americans who are suffering from inflating mortgage payments due to adjustabl...
06th February 2008
Periodontal means "around the tooth" and most victims are unaware that they have this disease because it is painless. However it affects almost 75 percent of the population. Gum diseases, including gingivitis, are serious infections that when left untreat...
02nd February 2008
When Sony/Philips technology released the first Digital Video Disc (DVD) digital technology's goal in the early 90's, it was toward a goal to enable a world united by one language. We've come along way since then with the advent of high definition DVDs. T...
