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How to watch American Idol
By Angelle Marie Damare
As Idol mania sweeps across America, I, a show-savvy fan, feel it necessary to give a brief overview of how to watch the show.
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Smoke no more
By Christopher Curry
I broke a 20-dollar bill on a pack of smokes today and got less than half of it back. Trying to pass myself off as both a firm believer and practitioner of logic and a smoker in the same cancerous breath is becoming extremely difficult. Therefore, that was my last pack of cigarettes.
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Debwewin
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Results of the 2005 three-city YPP Northern
Ontario research on racism, proceedings of 2007 Northern Ontario Symposium
on Diversity and Race Relations, and anti-racism resources.
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Looks at domestic violence issues both in terms of prevention and healing.
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WELCOME TO VERSE CITY!
Are you a fine shade of yellow, red or brown? Do you have something to say, A STORY TO TELL? Are you a class doodler itching to be a graffiti artist? Do you believe art and writing can change minds?
This is your space!
We are red. We are black. We are yellow. We are brown.
Verse City is an online youth zine that mixes up the colours of Canada like never before.
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This site aims to deliver interesting, controversial and fun comments and reviews that are of interest to young people from all over the world.
Most importantly the site should be a sounding board for you. Send in your content and it will be published. Also, go online and contribute to the forums.
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Practical advice, hard hitting stories and so much more for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth. Find info on everything from the history of the gay pride movement to advice on coming out.
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Tolerance.org
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A Web site devoted to promoting peace and tolerance in society. Check out the "For Teens" section that encourages young people to "mix it up" and stamp out intolerance.
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Red Pencil
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A place where writing is freely posted and critiqued. Whether you're a prolific writer who wants to share your work with the world, or an amatuer literary critic, log onto this site.
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TEARAWAY.co.nz
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TEARAWAY aims to inform, enrich, enthuse and empower young people; to encourage full, productive, enjoyable lives, with respect and care for selves, and others.
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FAZE Teen
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Faze Teen is an exciting magazine published for Canadian teenagers. Written for both guys and girls, Faze is a refreshing break from the standard dumbed-down teen magazines that only serve up regurgitated American pop culture and prom diet tips. Faze offers its readers insightful, hopefully inspiring looks at real life issues, current affairs, real people, science and technology, travel, business, health and fitness and much more.
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The largest collection of teen writing on the Internet with more than 17,000 pages of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, art and photos by more than 30,000 teens. In addition, TeenInk, publishes a monthly magazine read by millions of teenagers in high schools and junior high, and has published six very successful books written entirely by teens.
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This Business of Dance and Music
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This Business of Dance and Music is an international community and resource site for dancers, musicians and writers. This site is informative, sensuous, intelligent and simple. Designed to aid artists in networking, learning and promoting their crafts, the different media and artists are encouraged to interact and inspire each other.
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ExploreWriting is a reference point for anyone wishing to write either professionally or for pleasure. Written by experts, it explains how to write almost anything.
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 Teen exercise protects against breast cancer later in life
WASHINGTON — Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years – starting as young as age 12 – can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown.
Facebook sets new child safeguards
HARTFORD, Conn.–Social networking site Facebook is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, although the most extreme measure – banning convicted sex offenders – won't apply to Canada or other countries outside the United States.
New study ties sleep to array of health problems
ATLANTA — People who sleep fewer than six hours a night – or more than nine – are more likely to be obese, a new U.S. government study has found.
'I really don't think of myself' as an icon
Back in 1991, Gordon Lightfoot told a local interviewer that “nobody really needed another Gordon Lightfoot record.” It didn't turn out that way, of course. Lightfoot recorded three more albums after that statement, the last of which, Harmony, came out in 2004.
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