Tag: education
group name: mnreaders
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May 13, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
It appears that the "God" debate is really heating up. Sam Harris and others have written some very popular books and appeared on national shows to discuss God. . . .
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April 18, 2007 02:34 PM EDT --
I bet someone has already written about this on Gather, but just in case no one has and since it's heavy on my mind today -- there are some things about the computer's "spell check" . . .
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August 25, 2006 12:16 PM EDT --
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Lake Superior Writers announces the Inaugural Reading for the first Duluth Poet Laureate, Barton Sutter, to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 21 in the Weber Music Hall at the University . . .
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August 29, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
I love late August mornings. The light is gold, the air is cool and clear, the grass is deep green and the trees are already showing yellows and reds. With hay in the barn and wood ready to . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:18 PM EST --
Like music, language is a living organism that's always growing, evolving and changing.
To that point, I recently a newspaper article that contained this sentence:
The research group . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Below is the transcript of the interactive interview with Kendall King, Ph.D., and Alison Mackey, Ph.D., authors of The Bilingual Edge.
In The Bilingual Edge, Georgetown University professors . . .
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January 30, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
In the past few years, I find myself getting into a “focus of the month” mode. It is an interesting exercise. I’m not sure how it started. . . .
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March 13, 2007 03:22 PM EDT --
I'm not sure where I first came accross this but I have this riddle that contains the names of 30 Minnesota cities using synonyms and adjectives to help you guess the names. Give it . . .
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July 07, 2006 10:25 AM EDT --
When Todd Imholte signed on with a Hopkins, Minn. company that makes and sells wallpaper murals, he never guessed his job would have "global" impact for thousands of American school children. . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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November 27, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
I rarely read fiction. So, I find myself strangely attracted to books about human behaviors, demographics, psychology and biographies of human beings who have made significant . . .
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August 01, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Yes. You read that correctly. Apparently, June was Goat Trauma Awareness Month.
from www.goat-trauma.org/:
"The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally . . .
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August 07, 2007 02:23 AM EDT --
I would like to utilize the AmericaTakingAction.com National Education Network to provide my Gather friends with an opportunity to promote their books, those that have been published AND those being . . .
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June 29, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Quick. Can you:
1. Name the Four Gospels?
2. List the Ten Commandments?
3. Name a sacred text of Hinduism?
4. Name the . . .
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August 27, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
Brazil , by Gather member Errol Lincoln Uys, is the epic saga of a nation I knew little about until I got sucked into its history by this master story-teller. Not only is it a "vast novel to . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:38 AM EST --
What is it that makes the prodigal son ... prodigal? For a lot of people, it's the fact that he left and came back, but that's not quite right. And the misuse of prodigal doesn't sit well . . .
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July 12, 2007 04:39 PM EDT --
My excitement and love of Harry Potter allowed me to transform a classroom of underachieving, troubled children into a classroom of encouraged, . . .
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September 19, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
I almost choked on my coffee this morning when I read this lovely nugget:
Co-host of 'The View' doesn't know if Earth is round or flat
The View co-host Sherri Shephard told her other . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
Please join us on Wendesday, August 29th, 2-3 pm ET for a live interview with Kendall King, Ph.D., and Alison Mackey, Ph.D., authors of The Bilingual Edge. The interview will be taking place in the group, . . .
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April 17, 2007 11:36 PM EDT --
We edit the pain. This is how we survive.
But it remains like shrapnel under skin
and rises, and sometimes breaks the surface.
But it does not break us.
Sometimes it disfigures, or makes us perfect . . .
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