Bush has just appointed a highly criticized, anti-contraception person to be the new cheif of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Here are some news clips that criticize this appointment:

• "The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human ( Read more... )

"The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007..."

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Just something I found interesting...

Click here for the test

My score: 72.2% correct

How to interpret scores:

"Greater than 90% correct: World-class musical abilities
Greater than 75% correct: Excellent musical abilities
Greater than 60% correct: Good musical abilities
Less than 50% correct: You may have a pitch perception deficit"
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I've decided that I want to dye my hair dark purple. I'm talking anime dark purple-- like purple so dark it's nearly black. The kind that when an anime character has that hair color, if they were in real life, they'd have black hair, but since they're an anime character they have purple hair. About that dark is what I'm looking for, since a) I don' ( Read more... )

Okay, so, in one of my classes, we do these things each Monday where we write 3 sentences, each one with at least one word from last week's vocabulary words, and they usually have to be about a certain thing, and written with a certain grammatical structure (such as a sentence with an introductory dependant, or a participial phrase, or a ( Read more... )

• Midterms

I only ended up having midterms in two of my classes. One was really easy, the other was challenging, but not as difficult as I had expected - whew!

• Braces off

It's so good to have them off!

• My birthday

Yep, that's right, I'm "sweet sixteen." And my birthday party was lots of fun. :D

• Halloween

I didn't end up doing much in the way of fun ( Read more... )

TechRebublic:

"Witness the beauty and elegance of mathematics with 50 breathtaking fractals. Webshots member rajah created these Fractal Flames with Apophysis--a freeware Windows application with which you can design and render fractal flames. According to http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/ and http://www.flam3.com/, Fractal Flames were created by ( Read more... )

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