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Nov 30, 2009, 10:45 am
Yesterday, November 29, 2009, marked the beginning of Advent, the first day in the year of liturgical Western Christian churches. Falling on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, the holiday was celebr... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 2:58 pm
Unfriend
n. To remove a contact from your network on a social networking site,
such as Facebook.
The verdict is in: the New Oxford American Dictionary Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 2:35 pm
A picture may say a thousand words, but what about a flower? Last week in Singapore, while the world leaders convened to discuss politics, global climate change, and humanitarian efforts at the annua... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 9:59 am
What is a Psychometrician?
A psychometrician is someone who practices the science of educational and psychological measurement, or in other words, testing. Psychometricians measure the validity, reli... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 1:53 pm
While my friend and I were driving through the mountains to a small Appalachian town in southwestern Virginia for their weekly bluegrass jamboree, we passed the turn-off to Green Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 10:03 am
The last week of October and the beginning of November brings together some fairly disparate events, holidays, and emotions. For one, especially here in the U.S., October 31 is Halloween, that strang... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 3:27 pm
Since earning recognition for Innovation in Multicultural Health Care, Kaiser Permanente’s Clinician Cultural Linguistic Assessment language testing tool, which is administered by ALTA, has been... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 2:34 pm
As our nation’s policy makers and health care providers debate the future of health care reform, ALTA and Kaiser Permanente are working together to improve the quality of care for ethnic minorit... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
In honor of Blog Action Day 2009, here is an exploration of the language used in the climate debates:
Today there exist an impressive number of environmental publications, blogs, and websites dedicat... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2009, 1:17 pm
There are few things that I love more than finding out that two seemingly very different words share the same root. Like the shared history of pomegranate and hand grenade, these connections between... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:58 am
It’s raining heavily again in Atlanta, and the soothing sound of heavy drops hitting against the roof and windows brings to mind the language of house and home. Both the words Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 4:40 pm
Students from Longview High School in Texas recently contacted ALTA to ask for advice about a class project. Their project is part of an Engineering Design and Development course where the students tr... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 11:52 am
The English names for the days of the week have their roots in astrology and ancient cultures. The practice of naming days after heavenly bodies began Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2009, 4:00 pm
The field of animal cognition has been rapidly expanding since the mid-twentieth century. In the March 2008 issue of National Geographic, Virginia Morell explored the various animal cognition studies... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 9:55 am
You may be surprised to learn how many of the words we use have unusual origins. Having spent centuries in our lexicons, these words have lost their original significations and now take on colloquial... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 9:37 am
For those not in Atlanta and who have not heard any news about what is going on right now, we are in the middle of the biggest flood on record. Although it has been raining for over a week now in Geo... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 10:06 am
Many a quarrel has ended with a search for the nearest dictionary. The answer to a question of connotation versus denotation, implied or explicit meaning, and historical, social, or academic understa... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2009, 12:20 pm
Today marks the first unofficial day of Fall and where I am, at least, the weather is starting to cloud up and cool off a bit and the kids are back in school. To celebrate the close of summer, the Ne... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2009, 10:37 am
It’s that time of the year again, the application cycle for graduate programs across the nation is about to start. Applying to any program is a daunting task, whether it be a certificate progra... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2009, 11:51 am
This summer feels like it has been, the summer of food. Between the premiers of movies like Food Inc. and Julie and Julia, the buzz around New York Times food critic Frank Bruni Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 2:07 pm
Four hundred years ago today (August 25), Galileo Galilei (Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei) demonstrated the use of a telescope to the Venetian senate. His telescope, a simple leather ... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 10:49 am
Over the past few days I managed to pack up all of my belongings into cardboard boxes, meticulously arrange them in a U-Haul truck, drive almost five hundred miles north, unload the truck, and then un... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2009, 12:09 pm
The current debate over health care has some people in a panic, and many of the concerns being voiced (such as the concern over granny-killing government death panels), are unfounded and irrational.
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