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31: How Can You Tell If Something Is Nonsense
What is the difference between something sensible and something nonsensical and why is it important to be able to distinguish between the two....

32: Is Cultural Incompetence Putting up Walls Where You Work?
Today, most companies try to preserve some degree of cultural competence, accepting and understanding the value of cultural diversity in the work environment. Employers boasting policies of "equal opportunity" pervade our society. However, there is some evidence showing these companies only support cultural diversity to a certain degree --just enough to reduce their being liable for discrimination....

33: Amish Quilting Was Once Thought Revolutionary
Very few quilts are known to have been made by the Amish before the 1870s. Then over 15 years quilting became quite common. It is now considered commonplace and expected in the Amish community....

34: Unique Christmas Gift - For That Special Person In Your Life
Christmas is coming, a holiday which everyone loves and dreads at the same time. Everything about Christmas is simply wonderful, with the exception that you have to decide what gift you will give to whom and the shop for it, then wrap it and then give it....

35: Why We Are Self-Destructive
When we arrest our own expression of life force, either individually or collectively, we turn the force of desire against ourselves and become self-destructive....

36: Missing & Found: VVA's Rochester Honor Guard at The Wall
Ten years ago, a POW/MIA Marathon Team ran from Rochester, New York, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the national Mall....

37: Waiting for the Call: The September Eleventh Disaster
It smelled the same as war. It looked the same as war. Grant Coates, the vice president of VVA's New York State Council, thought the memory of it might have been one of the good things he brought back from Vietnam. "Been there, done that," he thought....

38: Traveling With The Moving Wall Of The Vietnam Veterans
They don't come for its size and scope. They come for the names....

39: Students Chip In To Help Katrina Victims
While most college students on spring break are busy sunning up and partying down in exotic locales such as Cancun, there are others who are content to sacrifice their spring break to help those less fortunate....

40: A Voice in the Wilderness
The Price of Peace...