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Senior Pictures Becoming Big Business
- Statesman
"Our average sale for a senior is $1,200 to $1,500, but some parents have spent up to $5,000," Meyer said.
Study Claims Moms Mimic Daughters in Fashion
- CNN
"We live in a society that one of the main values is to look younger," Ruvio said. "Most of these women have kids, work and they don't have time to monitor the market and see what is cool and hip, so they basically take a shortcut. Through their teenage daughters, they know they're safe."
New York: Sex Ed Becomes Mandatory
- Fox News
It’s the first time in nearly two decades that middle and high school students will be forced to take the mandatory classes, according to a report first published in The New York Times.
A nation in mourning for Navy SEAL Team 6
- Washington Examiner
As the nation mourns its loss, just as it has the losses of 10 years of a war it did not choose and which it cannot avoid, the greatest thing that civilians can do is remember that their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren are what they are because of warriors flying through mountain passes half a world away
10 Hidden Benefits of Having Children
- Fox News
Come along as we explore the top 10 hidden benefits of having children.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/05/10-hidden-benefits-having-children/#ixzz1USLudd6r
“Heroes” Sue Rescued Woman
- AP
Two Ohio men honored as heroes for their actions after a 2009 car crash are now suing the woman they rescued from a burning vehicle.
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Ulysses Handy, 24, shot three people in the head at point blank range. A former Boy Scout and member of the church choir, Handy shows no remorse for the killings. His motive? Handy wants others to experience the pain he feels inside. As he begins three consecutive life sentences, Handy has decorated his body with a pentagram, 666, and "devil horn" tattoos. Do you believe in "natural born killers"? Are we born evil, or it is cultivated through our life experiences? What happened to Ulysses Handy?
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As a child, Handy was raised to honor God. He says, "I went to Catholic schools all my life. And I was a honor student, Boy Scouts, all that. The choir--I went to catechism, first communion, and after a while, that wasn't me. It didn't give me pleasure." What kind of pleasure do you think Handy was looking for? What is the difference between pleasure,and joy or peace?
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See Genesis 3:1-17 and Romans 5:12-14. Why is evil part of our world? Is sin an undeniable part of our in-born nature?
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Handy said participating in certain activities, some of which centered on God, "wasn't me". Do you think those types of activities are "natural" to anyone?
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