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Young Model With Vitiligo Pushes Past Bullies To Redefine Beauty

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Mississippi Infant Mortality Rate at All-Time Low; Still Ranked 50th

By Arielle Dreher Article Reprint Infant mortality rates have decreased by 15 percent in the past five years according to the latest report from the Mississippi Department of Health. The infant mortality rate in 2014

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Pork the other White Meat?

Is Pork really the other white meat?  Is it a healthy meat to eat?  My client was eating pork tacos every night and told me how healthy she thought she was being eating only that. 

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Supporting the Post-Incarceration Mental Health Needs of Loved Ones

by Cortlyn Brown Article Reprint Fact:  African Americans are incarcerated at almost 6 times the rate of Caucasians. These are our sisters, neighbors, friends, moms, and most commonly, our brothers, fathers, and uncles. If they

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North Africa: small glimmers of light in bid to stop violence against women

By: Rebecca L. Farnum Article Reprint North Africa holds the dubious “honour” of being among the world’s worst regions for gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment and violence against women.

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Landslide in northern Myanmar kills about 70; 100 missing

By ESTHER HTUSAN Article Reprint YANGON, Myanmar — A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed up to 70 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers sifting through a

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