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Robin’s Recommendations

It’s about time for an update here!

And there are a lot of stories that we think deserve your attention, so here goes. We asked oncologist and author Dr. Jerome Groopman, where are we in the war on cancer? He gave us a great primer, including the pretty stunning statement that vitamin supplements not only don’t prevent cancer, but may feed cancer cells.

Our story on child trafficking in China, including an interview with an American mother who worries that her adopted daughter may not have been an orphan, as she was told, brought a lot of traffic to our site.. here it is again.

We spoke with Christian counselor Don Schmeirer, author of “An Ounce of Prevention: Preventing the Homosexual Condition in Today’s Youth,” and a past member of the board of Exodus International, an organization devoted to helping gays leave homosexuality. Don was one of three other Americans who spoke at a conference in Uganda, shortly before that country proposed a law to imprison or even kill homosexuals.

You had a lot of opinions on that last story, as we expected, but we had no idea that: accordions would be so popular!

We spoke with 23 year old World Digital Accordion champion Cory Pesaturo, you can listen again here. And finally, it always makes us smile to think of the sensitive female chord that men can play too.

(Posted January 14, 2010)

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