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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 You Are What You Read, Say Experts After reading a few pages of Jane Austen, I often find myself craving cups of tea, making a mental note to enquire about my neighbour's health and worrying about the women I know who aren't married. And that's because I'm experiencing what a team of psychologists at Ohio State University call 'experience taking' - brought on by reading. Click here to read more 10-Year-Old Girl Has 3kg Tumour Removed Obama Makes Maternity Care Central To Election Campaign Hope For Families As Cancer Fatalities Drop To Record Low Why An Egg For Breakfast Will Help Keep You Slim Should Women Feel They Can't Exercise During Pregnancy? BLOG POSTS Kristin Knox: Ten Over-Exposed Trends From Fashion Week As you can probably tell (or most likely have seen or read for yourself, depending on how closely you involve yourself with the show milieu), the street style thing of late has transcended to a whole new dimension of CRAY. Chris Cuthbert: Parenting, The Most Important Job You'll Ever Have Assuming all parents will naturally be able to nurture their babies is misguided, and it means we aren't giving parents the support they want and need. This must change. BritChick Paris: Have You Lost Faith in Politics? This year is a very political year for many countries. France has just voted in their new leader, Greece will do shortly and the USA elections beckon. Max Wind-Cowie: Who Will Stand Up to the Hetero-Phobes? The gay-rights brigade have allowed their quest for gay marriage to tip over into active hetero-phobia. If they don't snap out of it, they'll even lose the support of gay people like me. Tony Blair: Why Inter-Faith Understanding Is More Important Than Ever in Leadership I am a Christian and will remain so. This means that there are certain beliefs I hold dear. But I can, without reducing my Christian commitment, surely accept that someone else, brought up in a different tradition, holds a different set of beliefs, holds them as strongly as I hold mine, and I can respect that person and his/her right to believe as he/she does.

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