Mo'Nique: "I Was Reckless"
Comedienne and actress Mo'Nique's Oscar-winning performance in 2009's "Precious" put her on the map in Hollywood, after she spent her career embracing her big girl status, often saying bigger is better.
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Posted Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 2:41PM
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Actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventive double mastectomy, she revealed Tuesday in The New York Times. She wrote an opinion piece, titled "My Medical Choice," explaining that she underwent the breast removal procedure because she has a mut ...
Posted Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 2:37PM
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Nurse.com News U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has introduced legislation that aims to improve patient care and address the nationwide shortage of nurses. The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act would protect the rights of n ...
Posted Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 2:30PM
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Canada has medical coverage for its citizens, which is seemingly a wonderful idea. How much is covered varies from province to province The shame of this Canadian health care system however, is what does not happen for the patients who fall between t ...
Posted Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 7:58PM
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(NEWSER) – A mother who was barred from adopting more children found a criminal way to increase her brood: She forced her 14-year-old daughter to start inseminating herself with donor sperm the mother bought on the Internet. The girl, a virgin, is t ...
Posted Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 6:41PM
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Day after day, the grim drudgery of digging for bodies had progressed at Rana Plaza. Talk of rescuing survivors had faded. This was the recovery phase, and what was being recovered were corpses, the numbers spinning remorselessly ...
Posted Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 9:23AM
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Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, capable of voraciously quenching reactive oxygen species (it’s added to food products for their protection from oxidative damage).
Vitamin C is required in the manufacture of collagen; hence we age and get wrinkl ...
Posted Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 9:15AM
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If there's one thing that makes Satan hop up and down and get totally frustrated, it's spiritually applying the Blood of the Lord over your possessions and family. The reason is simple - he can't get near, even if he wanted to! I was really interest ...
Posted Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 9:00AM
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May 07, 2013 A Minneapolis-area psychiatrist, Charles Dean, published an opinion piece in the Star Tribune, “Rise in ADHD cases is due to marketing.“
It appeared adjacent to the Strib’s republishing of the New York Times op-ed piece, “Diagnosis: ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 4:21PM
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Having been raised in the South by my grandmother, I was taught there were topics that were inappropriate to discuss in public. There often was a culture of silence around issues of sexuality, marital infidelity, homophobia and other forms of sexual ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 2:45PM
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Are there really exercises for better sex? Yes! Not only can a workout be terrific for calorie-burning and fitness-boosting, but it can also prep the body for better performance in bed. It incorporates general fitness, sex-specific training, and mo ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 1:30PM
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May 08, 2013. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration made public on Wednesday previously unpublished hospital charges for the 100 most common inpatient treatments in 2011, saying a similar release of physician data is on the horizon. The massive dat ...
Posted Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 9:30AM
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For many nursing and healing professionals, death is the enemy. That doesn’t come as much of a surprise really. Everything in our training, as well as everything in our culture, underscores that mindset. But this principle can actually be counterprod ...
Posted Monday, May 6th 2013 at 8:27PM
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President Barack Obama says he is comfortable with his administration’s decision to limit over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill to anyone aged 15 and older, according to the AP. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday had low ...
Posted Monday, May 6th 2013 at 8:22PM
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John Strother was intoxicated when he stumbled into a Harlem church Sunday evening as a gospel choir performed. After hugging two members on stage, he was physically tossed out, struck his head on the pavement and is now fighting for his life in an ...
Posted Monday, May 6th 2013 at 8:05PM
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Do you ever get around a certain person and feel an uneasiness or an unrest? Something inside says, “Stay away. That’s trouble.” Those are not just bad vibes. That’s the Holy Spirit warning you. It may be small, but it can keep you from a big heartache. You might say, “Well, Joel, if I don’t hang ou ...
Posted Wednesday, May 1st 2013 at 2:43PM
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About 10 percent of reproductive-age couples in the United States will have difficulty getting pregnant. About 30 percent of cases are due to fertility problems in the man, 30 percent to fertility problems in the woman, and the rest to unexplained causes or multiple factors involving both partners. ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 5:54PM
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dazzled by the potential of free online college classes, educators are now turning to the gritty task of harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in American higher education: giving more students access to colle ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 11:59AM
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A senior administration official : "The President wants the Administration to be as flexible and nimble as possible in implementing the law. It is a complex undertaking, and it is particularly important to the success of the la ...
Posted Tuesday, April 30th 2013 at 9:53AM
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Think abuse could never happen to you? Even if he never raises a hand, you could be hit with emotional abuse or verbal smackdowns that are equally damaging. Yet, “women tend to overlook these signs because we’re trying to be understanding, or because ...
Posted Monday, April 29th 2013 at 9:11AM
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NASHVILLE – A new study conducted at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center indicates that a higher calcium consumption can greatly reduce the risk of developing precancerous colon and rectal lesions in people who are at increased risk due to variations ...
Posted Monday, April 29th 2013 at 9:03AM
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The boy can only be about 12-years-old but he is singing from the soul while he belts out this classic tear-jerker. TIP: Play the whole video because he really starts jamming near the end! One week after the late Luther Vandross‘ birthday, a video h ...
Posted Sunday, April 28th 2013 at 12:10PM
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