Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Live From Studio 1A: The Upside of Gossip

  Published: July 25, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Live From Studio 1a

  Would you believe me if I told you that gossip can actually be good for you? According to a new study, there are some benefits to those salacious rumors that we are all tempted to spread from time to time. WATCH VIDEO. The study examined 140 college students, and followed their tendencies to pass along various stories and rumors. Some of the

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• Live From Studio 1A: Running Over Roker

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Live From Studio 1a

  What happens when Al Roker gets between dozens of brides-to-be and several racks of wedding dresses? We found out this morning -- and if you haven't seen it, check it out: WATCH VIDEO Tune in the rest of this week as "TODAY Throws a Martha Stewart Wedding" continues from Miami Beach on Wednesday, Chicago on Thursday and New York City on

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• Live from Studio 1A: What's In A Name?

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Live From Studio 1a

  What's in a name?  Babies are born everyday, forcing parents to ask that very question.  Many people believe that a name can make all the difference when it comes to success and happiness in work, life, and love.  You may have heard us teasing a story on baby name consultants this morning.  Many parents-to-be are now

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• Random Musings for a Monday

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Mad Men, John From Cincinnati, Random Musings

  Six episodes into HBO’S JOHN FROM CINCINNATI, I have yet to decide whether I love the show or loathe it. One thing I do know I still am clueless as to what exactly’s going on and the real deal with the mysterious John. Speaking of clueless, over the weekend at the TCA Press Tour, Fox President Peter Liguori failed to acknowledge

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• In Brief: "Nine times out of ten, using 'sic' simply ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:08 pm

  Tags: Annoying, Memo From The Language Police, Sic

  "Nine times out of ten, using 'sic' simply draws attention away from the quote and towards the quoter, and, to this reader's eyes at least, reduces the quoter to a smug, insecure attention-seeker,...

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• Religion of the Apes

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: News From Afar

  That's the grabber headline for an interesting essay from "Sightings," the online religion column of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings 7/26/07 Religion of the Apes -- Christian Sheppard Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo recently hosted a conference on chimpanzee cognition and culture, "The Mind

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• FROM HAGZILLAS POOPBAG 6-30-07

  Published: June 30, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: From The Poopbag 6 30 2007

  More from the poopbag of hagzilla posted in the hateblog . (Most of hagzilas entry here is hardly worth the time spent to have a response to ) ( Regarding the trans inmate , from the mailbag and of seemingly importence to the diluded hagzilla : As such, anything along the lines of weight rooms or even HRT is a luxury, not a necessity and it is

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• Live From Studio 1A: Meredith's Traffic Jam

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Live From Studio 1a

  As soon as the seniors decided to have Meredith anchor the top of our show from the New York Stock Exchange, everyone started crossing their fingers... because the Stock Exchange is very far down in lower Manhattan, and our studio is in midtown. We wanted her back for the beginning of the 7:30 half-hour from Rockefeller Center, to then intro the

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• A Gift from God

  Published: March 22, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Gifts From God, God, Prayer

  Visit my office or the study in my home and you will find yourself surrounded by dolphins. Many people have asked me, “what is the deal with the dolphins?” Here’s my story. I am a cancer survivor. I was diagnosed with squamos cell carcinoma of the neck in September 2000 and underwent a four and a half hour surgery to have the

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• Gay Episcopal bishop says Church of England couldn't function without its gay clergy

  Published: July 28, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Episcopalians And Anglicans, News From Afar

  Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop whose election has triggered years of feuding within the Anglican Communion, says he just doesn't understand the brouhaha. He tells The Times of London that the Church of England, the mother church of Anglicanism, would almost be forced to shut its doors if it booted out all its gay priests.

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• Get Started Blogging

  Published: June 25, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Create Your Own Blogs, Blogs, Blogging, Earn From Blogs

  As the internet grows so to does the amount of people wanting to be a part of it. In the past it seemed a person had to have a good knowledge of things like html or JavaScript before they could even think of putting up their own business or personal webpage. Over time it became easier as both web hosting providers and software companies developed

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• Documenting Autism Recoveries

  Published: July 11, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Stephen Edelson, Recovering From Autism, Ari

  From Steven Edelson of the Autism Research Institute:Dear ARI e-newsletter subscriber, To date, more than 1,100 families with recovered or nearly-recovered children have registered on our website, www.AutismIsTreatable.com. Our list continues to grow on a steady basis! This is remarkable and much-needed news for all of those families working to

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• Habitat co-founder raises money for Presbyterian cemetery in Egypt

  Published: July 29, 2007, 9:54 am

  Tags: News From Afar

  There's a Texas reference in the story below about Don Mosley and his efforts to preserve a Presbyterian cemetery in Egypt. July 27, 2007 Habitat co-founder raises funds to restore vandalized Presbyterian cemetery in Egypt Don Mosley seeks to honor memory of orphanage founder by Jerry Van Marter Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE -

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• Adoption, AIDS and helping

  Published: July 22, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Adoption In The World, Health, India, Zimbabwe, Related News From The World, For The Greater Good, Russia, Birth Country Contributions

  A state-level orientation program on adoption was held recently in Lucknow, India, with the aim of increasing awareness locally on the issues of adoption in that country. Domestic Indian adoptions continue to lack popularity, with most people determined to avoid adopting a child. Also on the agenda, uniformity in adoption rules to remove much

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• Small world gets smaller

  Published: July 18, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Adoption In The World, Links Of Interest, China, Related News From The World, Birth Country Contributions

  Issues to do with children and adoption around the world range from the widely different to basically the same, as although cultural differences abound, we are at the base of it all humans. For example, this story out of the UK illustrates how children of ethnic minorities there wait longer for placement in adoptive families ... up to three

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