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Yoga In Encinitas
Encinitas is a small coastal town south of Los Angeles. Its school district received a half million dollar grant from a local yoga foundation to teach yoga in schools along with healthy eating and the cultivation of small gardens. The twice weekly exercises were adapted for younger participants and no Sanskrit words are being used.…
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Beyond Stereotype
When we think of Africa, we think of child soldiers, war lords, famine, poverty, we don’t think of technological progress. Yet that is what’s happening in Nairobi, Kenya, an African version of California’s Silicon Valley. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer recently visited and IBM recently chose Nairobi as its first African Research lab. Google, Intel, Microsoft and…
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A Long Way To Go
A new survey about racial attitudes conducted by researchers from three universities, Stanford, the University of Michigan and Chicago, reveals that they have not improved over the last four years. Slightly over half of all Americans, 51%, expressed attitudes against blacks. In 2008 the percentage was 48. The researchers asked questions to assess both explicit…
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