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  "Protecting" Women from the Front Lines Holds Them Back
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  Keeping women off the front lines of combat isn't just about protecting them; it's about preserving the separation between women and men. And this divide limits access to training and experience for women who currently serve. Why alienate a contingent of our military in order to preserve a...

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  Cockfighting Popular in America Despite Being Banned in All 50 States
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Although cockfighting is outlawed across the United States, the ancient bloodsport remains popular in America, especially in California, where large populations of Latino and Asian immigrants -- and relatively lax penalties for breeders and spectators alike -- fuel the illegal activity in...

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  Americans and Soccer
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  It’s bigger than the Super Bowl; it dwarfs the World Series, a name that is a major example of overreach. Does it compare to March Madness? Please, be serious. It’s the World Cup—the quadrennial shoot out in soccer, or football as it’s often called. Countries have gone to war over...

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  More Than Half of Mothers are Unwed in U.S.
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  The phrase “shotgun wedding” may be retiring from the American lexicon. Today more than half of all American babies are born to single mothers – single in the sense that they are not married to the father of their child. In a society long associated with Christian values, the trend is...

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  Raleigh, North Carolina Z-4-13 New Hope Road Zoning 101
  Article by Lillian L Thompson

  For many years we have looked out on untarnished farmland watching horses and deer. Three plots surrounded by homes a...

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  Are We Living in a Post-Racial America?
  Topic by Tracy Williams

  Does the fact that we elected a mixed-raced man to be the leader of the free world really mean that we now live in a “post-racial” America? The answers vary. Some argue, yes. But many more argue, no. Wikipedia defines post-racial America as “a theoretical environment where the United States...

• So You Want to Be a Leader?
  Article by Mark Herbert

  Leadership is one of the most broadly debated and least understood concepts we face. I believe there is an over relia...

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  Summer Traveling
  Topic by Kirsten N Lemmons

  As the weather gets warmer day by day and schools let out after another year, summer vacation plans sore through the air. Whether traveling for business or pleasure, many Americans will experience the excitement of traveling for the summer. But where will you go? How will you get there?...

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  Heart Disease in Women: An Underestimated Problem
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  The disease women fear most is not the one that is their biggest killer. The most recent poll, taken in 2005, shows that approximately two and half times more women fear breast cancer than heart disease.(Twenty-two percent fear breast cancer; 9 percent fear heart disease.). Yet,...

• Foodies Eating at Sweatshop Restaurants
  Topic by Erin Luhmann
• The Cost of Dementia in the United States
  Article by Michael Gordon