Category: Articles
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Adolescence and Anger
Read more: Adolescence and AngerWhat to expect when you were expecting a dozen-plus years ago: Adolescence and Anger. Parents can get angry in their frustrating fight for influence, adolescents can get angry in their frustrating fight for freedom. However,the battle is finally lost and won as the new generation defeats the old.
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Brush Right!
Read more: Brush Right!Not therapy: 10 Toothbrushing Mistakes (WebMD). But I just had a cavity filled. Toothbrushing Mistake No. 1: Not Using the Right Toothbrush Consider the size of your mouth when picking a toothbrush, says Richard H. Price, DMD, the consumer advisor for the American Dental Association. “If you are straining to open wide enough to let…
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The Net Remembers
Read more: The Net RemembersNYT Magazine piece about the the trouble with erasing past mistakes online: The Web Means the End of Forgetting. 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites,…
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Not Smoking
Read more: Not SmokingJane Brody looks at smoking. [O]ver the course of a day, as the brain continues to be exposed to nicotine, partial tolerance develops and each subsequent cigarette produces less of an effect. But during sleep, nicotine comes off the receptors and smokers awaken with an intense craving for a cigarette.
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Mental Health ER
Read more: Mental Health EROne in eight ER visits due to mental health and/or substance abuse. New government statistics show that nearly 12 million visits made to U.S. hospital emergency departments in 2007 involved people with a mental disorder, substance abuse problem, or both.