Recently, a number of children that are getting home schooled are from "new age" families that would like to take education into their own hands (Klugewiz 409). ... Also, home schooled children score above the 60th percentile in math, science, and verbal skills on the Stanford Achievement Test when compared to the average of other students. A study in Washington found SAT scores of home schooled children to be higher than average (Galen 45). In more than 65 other studies, the results show that home schooled children perform better or average in comparison to traditional schooled children (...

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However, the 1990's brought about a new medium that would again change the way Americans prefer to receive their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... The average American adult employs four of these separate vehicles to receive their daily news. ... This new mobile option gives Americans the opportunity to take their news with them....

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Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia says that one is considered overweight when his or her body mass index is above twenty five, and is considered obese above thirty percent. ... According to Muscular Development, a sports and fitness magazine, American teens spend an average of 5.5 hours in front of some sort of screen. ... When the 80's rolled around the so-called fat acceptance movement caused people to face the risk of getting sat on if caught making fun of a fat person. ... In other words, the new craze of diet foods is ultimately causing people to gain weight because they en...

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