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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Mean Teen Average

Thursday, December 6, 2007

The medical science report of the hour talks about how many teenagers are teenagers. It’s not a happy statistic, that the number of teenage mothers has increased in the United States. The Associated Press article, though, has an interesting touch on the facts: The teen increase was based on the 15-19 age group, which accounted [...]

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A Hawkeye on Values

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Alan Alda is not necessarily a genius, though he’s been a documentary host on PBS. Nor is he a hero, though he played one in M*A*S*H. He even may have had co-writing (aka ghosting) or close editing (aka ghosting) with either or both of his memoir volumes, the second of [...]

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One-third short

Monday, December 3, 2007

Hats off to the organizers of National Novel Writing Month. This group began in 1999 with 21 participants who challenged one another to write 50,000 words of a novel (which makes for a short but complete novel, Gatsby length) in 30 days. The month chosen is November. The word count is conducted electronically via the [...]

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