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Prom Dresses For Free

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Maria Ocegueda is going through a rack of dresses trying to find the perfect prom dress.  Maria and other girls from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth, Texas, are looking for their dresses at a church fellowship hall. That’s where Cindy…
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Serape Style!

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Spring fashion is all about color: pops of color, splashes of color, stripes, and patterns festoon this season’s runways and store windows. Mexican folk art is renowned for it’s saturated hues and gorgeous textiles so when we ran across…
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Is Your Child Ready for Facebook?

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The picture seemed innocent enough: it was an attractive 14-year-old girl with her back to the camera, writing on the classroom whiteboard. But it was the text below the picture that caught cyberbullying educator Lissa Albert’s eye. It…

Best Job in the World

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Okay, we know this is a commercial, but c’mon, it is one powerful ad. It’s P&G’s way of honoring moms, mums, mothers, mamis. It beautifully showcases moms of Olympic athletes and future Olympic hopefuls, noting that being a mom is…
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Anger Management: The Right Way to Express Yourself

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For many years, I was angry. I was so angry that it became one of the defining traits of my character, as my master’s advisor noted in the recommendation letter he wrote for me, describing me as “a pugilist with a mind that gives off…
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Medical Myth Buster: Gum Digestion

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Myth: Chewing Gum Takes 7 Years to Digest Bust: I bet you’ve heard that before at least once. I have, so many times when I was growing up in fact, that I used to have nightmares about it. Many still believe it to be true. So where does…

Pregnant in Arizona

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Taylor Ferrera’s response to Arizona’s recently passed Women’s Health and Safety Act, which defines pregnancy at “two weeks before conception” and signed into law by governor Jan Brewer, is one of the best we’ve seen. With tongue…

Mom Attacked, Leaves 4-Year-Old Daughter

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It’s hard to say what we would do in any number of instances, but what we saw on this video shocked us. We’d like to think she was fleeing in the hopes that her attacker would chase her. The Springfield, Mass., mother was stabbed in the…
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Top 40 Latinos in Social Media

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Shakira rocks it when it comes to social media. She boasts a combined total of 65.4 million likes on Facebook and followers on Twitter, according to @Plus_Three’s semiannual analysis of leading Latinos in social media #2012LatinoRanking.  Musicians…