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  The Rise of Tick-Borne Illnesses and Misdiagnosed Cases
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  After 8 years of testing and nervous system ailments, Jennifer Crystal was diagnosed with Lyme disease. She now had a name for her condition, but was up against a challenging path to recovery. “I was left bedridden, hooked up to an IV, for two years. The co-infections of babesia,...

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  Netherlands Cracks Down on Cannabis Coffeeshops
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Foreigners visiting three southern provinces of the Netherlands are now prohibited from partaking in one of the nation's most famous tourist attractions: purchasing and smoking marijuana and hashish in coffeeshops. Since the early 1970s, soft drugs such as marijuana and hashish have been...

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  Earthquake Preparedness in California and Japan
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  They are separated by the world’s largest ocean, but California and Japan have something in common. They both have been the scenes of major earthquakes, and concern about those potentially devastating events has led to a heightened awareness of the power of earthquakes and vigorous efforts to...

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  Indoor Tanning: an Issue of Addiction?
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  With salon names like Half-Baked Tanning, Electric Tan, Sun UR BUNZ, T-N-T Tanning and Sizzle, the tanning industry has been ripe for parody long before Kristen Wiig played the New Jersey tanning mom, Patricia Krentci, on SNL. While Krentci’s sun-logged complexion and alleged tanning abuses...

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  White Birth Rate Will Change America
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  The complexion of America is changing. With white births no longer the majority in the US, politicians and sociologists speculate about the future of this increasingly multi-ethnic country. These demographic shifts have a history of immigration behind them, including decades of recent growth...

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  The Third Party Problem
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  Come election time, my husband and I often find ourselves on opposite sides of the voting booth. It's not that our political beliefs differ much -- we're both liberals. The difference is that he believes in voting for the candidate who most closely matches his personal beliefs, which often...

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  The Global Luxury Market: Should It Be a Degree?
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  In May, North Carolina State University's graduate school announced a unique arrangement with SKEMA, a French business school. The two institutions will be the first to offer a one-year graduate studies option in Global Luxury Management. While demand for luxury goods remains strong in the...

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  Public or Private, Shelters are Necessary for Tornado Season
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  Growing up in Indiana, I accepted tornado safety as a reliable sign of spring. Every April in school I practiced drills, lining interior halls and bathrooms with my peers. My older brother experienced a close encounter with a tornado glancing by our elementary school, so I spent my years...

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  Feeding Poison: Fairy Tales and Disney
  Topic by Tracy Williams

  The beloved stories parents yearn to pass down to their children do more harm than good. Classic fairy tales, especially those that have been transformed into animated Disney feature films, are not only entertaining to youngsters, but also reinforce stereotypes and inject racist and sexist...

• Goth Girl
  Article by Randy L Cima
• Alzheimer's Disease: The Demographics of Aging
  Topic by Harvey K Black
• "Protecting" Women from the Front Lines Holds Them Back
  Topic by Nora G Hertel
• Cockfighting Popular in America Despite Being Banned in All 50 States
  Topic by Ed Murrieta
• Americans and Soccer
  Topic by Harvey K Black
• More Than Half of Mothers are Unwed in U.S.
  Topic by Erin Luhmann
• Raleigh, North Carolina Z-4-13 New Hope Road Zoning 101
  Article by Lillian L Thompson
• Are We Living in a Post-Racial America?
  Topic by Tracy Williams
• So You Want to Be a Leader?
  Article by Mark Herbert