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Between Pandemic, Job Losses, Racial Justice: Americans Generosity Set New $471 Billion Record in Giving to Charity

COVID-19 relief, racial justice efforts, coupled with stock market gains, led Americans to donate a record US$471 billion to charity in 2020. ...

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Celebrate IWD 2020, Join #GenerationEquality and Become Part of the Solution

(Credit: IWD 2020 / UNWomen) This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, (IWD) on March 8, 2020 is, “I am Generation Equality: ...

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Is It Wise to Vote – Considering How Little Impact You Can Have

We should understand voting as a duty of common pursuit. Image: Gerd Altmann / Pixabay For far too long, the accepted wisdom among scholars of ...

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Crisco’s Revolutionary Advertising Techniques Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food

Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one ...

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Your Preference for a Specific Body Shape Is Shaped by Television – Study Reveals

Reachers at the University of Durham in the UK discovered that the more TV you watch, the more you prefer thinner female bodies. The ...

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Saudade: The Untranslatable Portuguese Word for the Presence of Absence

Though akin to nostalgia or longing, Saudade has no direct equivalent in English. Photo: VisionPic / Pexels ‘I pray for friends I’ve ...

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Shocking Female Body Photoshop Airbrush Transformation

https://youtu.be/qY_dmwWFIYA A shocking video from Global Democracy reveals the manipulation of a model's body from the beginning to the final ...

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Frye: The America Boot Company That Made History

Photo: Stock Snap/Pixabay FRYE: THE BOOTS THAT MADE HISTORY  Jackie O. wore them, as did John Lennon. Icons as diverse as Bruce ...