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- How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
- Did you sleep well last night？ If the answer is " No" ， you're in good company. Insomnia1 is the most common sleep disorder in the UK， with up to a third of the population affected at some stage...
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- "Nobody wants to cheat"
- I've cheated in school when I thought that I could get away with1 it. I'm not proud of it and I don't usually feel very good about myself afterward， but sometimes it's the only way possible to...
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- Random Thoughts――Party
- Last night， pressured by well- intentioned friends， for the first time in months， I came out of writer' s seclusion1 and attended a cocktail party which is another word for a social gathering. So...
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- Study Tips
- Wouldn't it be great to get paid for studying， even if it was minimum wage？ " Hey， where do you work？" " Oh， I study. The pay is great！ Not only do I get paid ＄ 5.50 an hour， but I get smarter too！" ...
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- Marty Had a Little Lamb
- It was lambing1 season. The neighbors' phone call brought my dad and me rushing to their barn to help with a difficult delivery. We found a lamb whose mother had died while giving birth. The o...
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- An Extra Ten Minutes
- On Monday afternoons at two o' clock， Beau and I would arrive at the Silver Spring Convalescent1 Center on Milwaukee' s northeast side of town for an hour of pet therapy with the seniors who li...
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- Become a Better Listener
- I strongly believe that it is rather important to be a good listener. And although I have become a better listener than I was ten years ago， I have to admit I'm still only an adequate1 listener...
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- Getting more comfortable with computer
- When I stepped onto campus my freshman year of college with my one semester of C programming beneath my belt1， I had no clue that I would be appointed my floor's computer genius. Maybe it wa...
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- Demaged Goods
- The dust mites1 danced in the ray of sunshine that provided the only light in the rabbi's2 office. He leaned back in his office chair and sighed as he stroked3 his beard. Then he took his wire...
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- The High-Tech Student
- Remember the Stone Age days of research back in elementary school and middle school？ We would spend countless hours digesting1 the information we could find on index cards. Do you recall using...
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- What You Don't Talk About
- One of the recurring1 questions that my students in China often ask is： " What are the things they shouldn't talk about with Americans？" Taboo2 topics tend to make people feel uneasy3. Every cul...
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- Dealing with Growth
- In a world today of immense1 technology， population growth and economic flourish2， planning for future residential and commercial developments needs careful analysis with well thought through as...
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- A Roller-Coaster Ride in the Stock Market
- Do you enjoy a roller-coaster6 ride？ Ups and downs， zigs7 and zags8， free falls in the dark. I made several such rides in Disney Park in Florida. It was an awful yet exhilarating9 experience. But...
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- Remembering the Ages
- This weekend， I volunteered1 to give my friend， Liza， a hand2 with her fiance's 30th birthday gift. Liza wanted to surprise James with a 30-minute video biography3 that captured4 the highlights5...
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- Dad
- The first memory I have of him――of anything， really――is his strength. It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. The unfinished wood floor had large， terrifying ho...
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- Home
- Afreezing downpour washed the black asphalt1 street in front of the small-town bar. I sat gazing into the watery darkness， alone as usual. Across the rain-drenched2 roadway was the town park： fi...
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- Wounding with words
- It's the one parental motto1 every kid knows by heart： Just because everybody else is doing it， that doesn't mean you should， too. From playgrounds to parties， the mantra2 resonates3 among tots an...
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- The price of Love
- If only I can keep the kids from naming him. That would be the trick. " No family needs two dogs，" I began dogmatically1. And so I invoked2 the Bauer Anonymity3 Rule （BAR）， which prohibits the...
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- The Rose
- The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged1 us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I t...
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- How Could Anything That Feels So Bad Be So Good？
- Maybe it is time to adopt a new strategy in trying to figure out1 why life today is so difficult， and what can be done about it. Assume that not only are things often not what they seem， they ma...
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- The Star of the Rodeo
- As a very young child in Niagara Falls， New York， I was in and out of the hospital with serious asthma1 attacks. When I was six years old， the doctors told my parents that if they did not take me...
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- Academic Integrity――A Letter to My Students
- Here at the beginning of the semester I want to say something to you about academic Integrity. I'm deeply convinced that integrity is an essential part of any true educational experience， in...
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- "Time Is money" ：Seeing the Doctor in the United stated
- When I was in China， I rarely went to see the doctor. This was because I seldom got sick. I often heard people complain about hospitals and doctors： how inefficient1 they were and so how time-consum...
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- More Than a Picasso
- I was 18 years old―― determined it was time to spread my wings， to set out on my own， to get my own place. So， this particular art show was more fun than most. I looked around through my mos...
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- Shopping Experience in the States
- I love shopping， even if it is just window-shopping1. Shopping in the States is always a pleasant experience. There are different types of shops that operate to cater to2 your different needs....
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