ChildFund Board Member Presents 'Kids Over There – Why Should I Care'

"A 19-year-old woman attending the University of Virginia is taking a year to do volunteer work at the U.N. before starting medical school with a plan to devote her live to global health. A young woman in Afghanistan had to flee her country for safety reasons and is one of 3 million displaced Afghans.

What do they have in common?"

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Active Kids Fall Asleep Faster

"As parents watch their children swimming or playing tag, they often comment happily to each other about how well their kids will sleep that night. Now there's scientific data to back up that playground chatter.

A new study shows that active kids fall asleep faster. The study also shows that the longer it takes to fall asleep, the shorter the total sleep time. This is important because bad sleep patterns in children have been associated with poorer school performance and an increased risk of being obese or overweight."

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Target Can Make Sleepy Titles Into Best Sellers

When “Sarah’s Key,” a novel about an American journalist investigating the 1942 roundup of Jews in Paris, was published in hardcover two years ago, it dropped with a thud. According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of sales, the book sold just 2,000 copies.

Indeed, the book, by the first-time novelist Tatiana de Rosnay, was well on its way to sinking out of sight last fall when Target, the discount retailer, chose the paperback version of “Sarah’s Key” as its Bookmarked Club Pick: a choice for a program that designates titles for prominent display throughout the chain’s stores. Suddenly sales exploded.

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Verse for Verse; Poetry Paired with Scripture

"Urging poetry lovers toward a deeper relationship with God is Laurita McKerchers's gift. In her new devotional book, 'A Tugging of the Heartstrings,' Mrs. McKercher's original poems lend additional illumination to well-known Bible passages. Poetic verse is matched with biblical verse and the result is renewed intimacy with God."


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What Grew Amid the Ashes

When the Jesusita wildfire roared through Mission Canyon back in May, it showed little respect for the area’s only tourist attraction—the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Over 60 of its 78 acres were either damaged or destroyed, along with 8,800 specimen plants. And the only thing remaining of the Gane House, a 100-year-old Craftsman-style residence that housed all the gardening tools, were three brick chimneys.

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State of Our Unions: Why Marriage Matters

"Marriage is a hot topic these days. And a recent article in Time magazine makes a great contribution to the debate. Find out why."

Click here for more on Chuck Colson's commentary.

Don't take your passwords to the grave

"If you're smart about your online life, you've created strong and varied passwords for all your accounts. You change those passwords often. And you never write them down or share them with anyone."

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