Annie’s Mailbox for Jan. 18, 2011: My father’s touching is annoying
My father has a habit of touching me when he talks. He’ll tap my hand or leg, and he often touches my arm when it’s unnecessary. I’ve told him many times that I don’t like it, but he gets quite unhappy if I ask him to stop. He’s done this since I was a kid, and I’m 33 now. Once, when I was 13, he kept tapping his leg against mine under the table at an outdoor restaurant. I couldn’t tolerate it …
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School buses add cameras to catch drivers endangering kids
School districts nationwide are trying out video cameras as a way to deter drivers from passing buses that are loading or unloading children.
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Nigeria: Former Anti-Corruption Chief is Candidate of the ACN
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Reducing Fluoride for Kid’s Teeth
The federal government is looking at whether to change the amount of fluoride added to water. There has been an increase in a condition that causes kid’s teeth to have streaking and spotting. It’s caused by too much fluoride.
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Four Progs tied for first place
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New NIN tracks released for Guitar Hero
New tracks from Nine Inch Nails, A Day To Remember, The Damned Things, Hawthorne Heights, HIM and The Used are now available to download for Guitar Hero.
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Seattle’s beauty shines in letters from the 1880s
What a wonderful legacy of letters that were left to Marion McCorkle Don of Mukilteo. Her grandfather, Charles Cornelius McCorkle, was a spirited pioneer.
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Nurse brutally bashed
A NURSE was almost killed by a mental patient despite a similar attack on a doctor at the same facility just two years earlier.
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Fluoride in drinking water: Will the EPA get tougher?
Environmental health groups are now looking to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to impose tougher standards on fluoride in drinking water, building on a decision Friday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to lower the recommended level…
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