Bayer Diabetes Care announces the winners of ‘Express Your Simple Win Creativity Contest’
Bayer Diabetes Care today announced the three grand prize winners of Bayer’s “Express Your Simple Win Creativity Contest.” Nick Jonas, of the Jonas Brothers, selected the winning video entries submitted by children with diabetes from across the country.

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Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade
Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school, I was nervous. In the administrator’s office, my mother and I waited to go over my files. Nearby was another family—a white mother and a black father with their son and daughter …

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Parents, kids, learn of Internet pitfalls
On the Internet, you can be whoever you want. A football star, cheerleader, actor, anything. For some kids, it’s a dream come true, but the seemingly innocent act of chatting online could lead to a parent’s worst nightmare.

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All the talk is about the importance of recycling, but the first tenet in the conservation creed is “Reduce.” We have gotten away from many ways of life our parents and grandparents lived (thankfully, some of them — e.g. only bathing once a week) and with our big, expansive homes, have forgotten how to live frugally. What are some frugal practices you grew up with?

For example, keeping the thermostat set low in winter and wearing a sweater around the house. Opening the windows and running a fan instead of using the air conditioner. Closing vents off in unused rooms during heating/cooling seasons. Saving old bits of soap and either melting them down or smushing them against the new bar of soap. Reusing birthday candles. Limiting long distance phone calls. Turning off lights as you leave a room.

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