The Rush Fetal and Neonatal Medicine Center is hosting a drive for clothing, toiletries, toys and other such items for the Women’s Treatment Center on Chicago’s Near West Side. The Womens Treatment Center is the only substance abuse treatment center in the state focused solely on women and specializing in treatment that is framed and informed by women’s issues.

Many of these women are homeless or close to homeless, said Jessica Cherikos, DNP, nurse practitioner, Rush Fetal and Neonatal Medicine Center. Cherikos provides prenatal care for many of these pregnant women who receive inpatient drug rehabilitation at the center.

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TUESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) — All those “status updates” and “tweets” that people post as they clamor to be part of the online social network may reflect a troubling trend toward self-absorbed behavior in the United States, a new study suggests.

The University of Michigan researchers examined whether narcissism was related to the number of daily Facebook and Twitter postings by 486 college students and 93 adults, and to the amount of time they spent on each site.

The college students average age was 19, and three-quarters were women. The average age of the adults was 35, and most of them were white women.

“Among young adult college students, we found that those who scored higher in certain types of narcissism posted more often on Twitter,” study author Elliot Panek, who recently completed his doctorate in communication studies, said in a university news release.

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MIAMI GARDENS – Carol City High narrowly edged Miami Jackson High, 28-21, in a thrilling matchup that featured two of Dade County’s premier teams to win the 6th annual Miami Dolphins Academy 7-on-7 High School Football Tournament Presented by Under Armour and the National Guard at Sun Life Stadium. The Chiefs came up with a crucial 4th down stop with 47 seconds remaining to win the title and will now represent South Florida and the Miami Dolphins in the 2013 HSPD National Championship in Cleveland, Ohio on July 11-14.

“You talk about a fourth down play, just seconds on the clock and a chance to go to Cleveland. You

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The importance of maths in the curriculum has never been more highly stressed.

With Sats league tables based in part on results in the subject, teachers need to make sure youngsters have a firm grasp.

Christ the King Catholic Primary, in Glenfield, has above-average attainment results in both maths and English – another key subject.

However, head teacher Martin Fitzwilliam said: “There’s always room for improvement and no school wants to rest on its laurels.

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I just wrote and discarded a 3,000-plus-word response to your queries. But I’ll post it later on my deborahmeier.com blog. There’s just too much to say!

I essentially repeated my argument about why parents are not the problem; it’s the conditions under which they have to raise their children, the obstacles they must overcome to cope with daily crises that are the problem—mostly related to poverty and racism.

I repeated my reasons for discarding as useless the data I get from the form of testing we have become addicted to. I’ve documented their fallibility in many an article in the past. There are too many possibilities for why kids get wrong, as well as right, answers—often having nothing to do with their mathematical or reading skills!

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Today marks Michael Petrilli’s final blog post with Deborah Meier—at least for now.

It’s been a real joy to join you in dialogue these past six weeks. I very much appreciate the opportunity and hope we can continue the discussion in other forums in the months ahead. (Well, maybe after a summer break!)

Let me use my last correspondence to introduce one new idea and summarize some of the others we’ve explored—to determine just how far we’ve come in bridging our differences.

The new idea is this: Poverty is a lot like global warming.

As a Whole Foods Republican, I acknowledge that global warming is real, that it’s a major threat, and that it’s caused (at least in part) by human activity. Her

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