Not all doctors offer the same counseling to teens. Here’s study report to help you decide.

Concerned and interested parents of adolescents sometimes rely on medical practitioners and look to them for teen counseling related to smoking prevention and quitting. Not all medical practitioners offer the same screening, counseling, or spend the same amount of time with patients. These parents may be interested in weighing the report of the following survey study conducted at the University of Rochester. They conducted a study on smoking prevention and cessation screening and counseling given to adolescents by various medical practitioners. Read more »

Every year tons and tons of trash are dumped to fill landfill lots and include everything from containers and recyclable paper to reusable items that can be donated. Learn how you can help to end this polluting painful cycle and save the environment while you still can!

Have you ever seen photos taken of the earth from far away? Yes, Planet Earth is a jewel, and even up close its magnificence is breathtaking if you’re looking at all the mountains, hillsides, and islands. But have you ever seen the parts that nobody talks about?
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Designer Soup: My Grandmother was the First “Soup Nazi”

****** “Soup Nazi is a reference to a popular Seinfeld show about a foreign soup magnet that made the most incredible soup, but was a tyrant. This “Soup Nazi” would tolerate no questions from his faithful soup addicts and he would kick any complaining customer out- never to be served again. ********
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ROTC Renaissance

Banned for over thirty years from elite college campuses across the country, the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is ready for a comeback.

An Ivy League example: ROTC has been banned on Columbia’s campus since the late sixties, when the school’s trustees, following Harvard’s lead, shut out recruiters and ROTC offices from institutional property. Sparked by growing unrest over the Vietnam War, the ban was meant to signal disapproval of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. In retrospect, the ban was little more than a cynical maneuver meant to placate angry activists, whose anti-government fury sparked a wave of protests on college campuses across America throughout the 1960s. In many of these cases, anti-American furor was specifically directed at ROTC programs. Read more »