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| My daughter would like to know just about everything, and is not above asking all the questions, all day long. How are teddy bears made? How do you make windows? Who is the Sandman? ...more |
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| As soon as children are old enough to begin to interact with the wider world, the need to form a tribal bond becomes almost a developmental imperative. Because even though young children have little bodies – they don’t have little minds! ...more |
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| 'It takes a village to raise a child' In the light of some of the events of the past decade, this well-known statement has a poignant, somewhat hollow ring to it. ...more |
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| The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, terrorised, and sexually abused.
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| A relatively new principle for guiding human activities, to prevent harm to the environment and to human health has been emerging during the past ten years. It is called the ‘principle of precautionary action’ or the ‘precautionary principle’ for short. A ...more |
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| Nearly 90 per cent of ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products have not been safety tested for human health effects. However, some ubiquitous ingredients such as parabens have been shown to be estrogenic. ...more |
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| According to industry estimates, on any given day an average consumer may use as many as 25 different cosmetic and personal care products, including shampoo, nail polish, aftershave and lotion, containing more than 200 different chemical compounds.
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| In the name of removing wrinkles and lines, not only are most cosmetics not good for you, reports Alf Orpen; in fact, they may even speed up the ageing process.
Out of Paris, New York, London and Rome continuously come sensational ‘new’ claims of substan ...more |
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| Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in females in Australia. It is also the leading cause of cancer death in females. It is estimated that 13,261 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia this year.
Links have been fo ...more |
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| I have Aboriginal blood, I have Islander blood and I have white blood so I have a mixed nationality really. I belong to the Midjuanbal clan up at Tweed.
We were the first black family to live in Kingscliff. I watched a lot of relationships between fath ...more |
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| I have had the privilege of having two fathers — more than two fathers — but the major ones are my birth father John and my adopted father, Peter Costello. He claimed me. In traditional Wiradjuri law, if you have no grandparents on either side, and you ha ...more |
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| There is a mythic Aboriginal man in the white Australian psyche — drunken, violent, raging, dangerous. I know one or two such black men, but I know a lot more. Black men who know our kids are precious, and act like it. ...more |
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| The difference between a man with a vision who wants to make a positive mark on his world and one who is aimless with no hope for the future is immeasurable. The aim of Pathways to Manhood is to bring out the potential in young men and have them full of i ...more |
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| Care of the intact penis is a simple task - leave it alone - so why all the confusion? ...more |
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| In order to understand the relevance of the Tribe in the 21st Century it first has to be put into a personal context. Throughout history, people have lived together in extended families or Tribes. Tribes were able to meet the ‘hierarchy of human needs’ in ...more |
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| When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis — feeding the population — and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society? Cuba’s innovative response is an inspiration for countries around th ...more |
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| It was in the early 1970s that I was first introduced to storytelling. I was privileged to work in the Steiner school system where my teaching style was greatly enriched by their story-centred curriculum. ...more |
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| Mothers today are made to think that our only real social contribution is done through the workforce. Could it be that the opposition of motherhood to serious work and thought, the supposed contradiction between art and life, is wrong?
When my second c ...more |
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| How television affects your opinions, your will and your life.
Think you’re a free thinker? Think again, says Dr. Aric Sigman in an excerpt from his newly released book Remotely Controlled ...more |
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| Our small plane landed at the Addis Ababa International Airport where my father eagerly awaited our arrival. An esteemed and sought-after archaeologist, he was used to spending many months at a time away from us in the company of two-hundred-thousand-year ...more |
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