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Laughter is the Best Medicine!

A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

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Mental Illness is a harsh reality to some. Many people feel that because there are no lab test, x-ray or physical manifestation of mental illness means that it is not real. The whole truth is that it is real.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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High School’s “Wigger Day” Ignites Controversy

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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August 4, 2011
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| Discussion, Education, Enough Said!, law, Newsworthy, Race Relations, Racism, What's Hot

Seems like it’s becoming common place for white students to try to emulate caricatures of black culture…and claim it’s a joke. One student has decided to fight back. Quera Pruitt, who graduated from Red Wing High School in 2010, is listed as a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed against the district. The lawsuit […]

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