The U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the Fitness Integrated with Teaching (FIT) Kids Act reinforces the American Heart Association's efforts to make quality physical education an integral part of the school day. The bill aims to combat childhood obesity head on by giving parents vital...
"Historic passage of health system reform by the U.S. House of Representatives today is an important step toward providing coverage to all Americans and improving our nation's health system. Every day physicians see the devastating effect being uninsured has on the health of our patients...
Today's historic vote in the House of Representatives for health reform legislation puts our country one step closer to providing health coverage for all Americans and strengthening Medicare for generations to come. The courageous lawmakers who voted for this bill are delivering real benefits...
I recently gave a talk to a group of parents during which I assured them that if they applied these principles correctly, they would have good results. A few days later, I met one of those parents in a grocery store. He said, "You know, we tried what you suggested and it worked!" (There was...
Congress should approve the International Violence Against Women Act not only because it is the "the right thing to do" but because "it's in our own interests," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), Amnesty International USA Executive Director Larry Cox, and Kerry Kennedy...
"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which represents 60,000 pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and surgical specialists, applauds the United States Senate for its vote to pass its health reform agreement, embodied in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The...
"Today, the Senate took an historic vote to improve our nation's health care system by expanding coverage to millions of Americans and strengthening the private insurance market to better serve the patients who rely on it. The AMA (American Medical Association) supported passage of the bill...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, released the following statement on the Senate's passage of historic health care reform legislation: "With this bill, we will begin the process of cutting health care costs, while maintaining quality...
Is not short pain well borne, that brings lone ease,
And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave?
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
I don't understand what this means. Could anyone explain it to me please? :)
"Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: “Yes, but I love myself.”"
I have been given this as a SAC from my teacher.
Use the following passage as the basis for a discussion of 'Hamlet'.
KING
62 Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
63 And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
64 But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son—
HAMLET
65 A...
...or north to south? Here's what's on our itenerary for August: Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, LeConte Glacier, Juneau, West Glacier Trail above Mendenhall, Tracy Arm, Skagway, Laughton Glacier via White Pass and Yukon Railroad. Thank you.
LADY MACBETH
O proper stuff!
This is the very painting of your fear:
This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,
Impostors to true fear, would well become
A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her...
This passage is from the prophetic book of 2 Esdras
2 Esdras Ch 6 19-21
19 And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled;
20 And when the world, that shall begin to vanish away...