Linda Burke-Galloway

Life is about self-discovery. A few days ago, I discovered what its like to be the parent of an athlete. The sacrifice and joy of seeing your children excel in a gift you werent certain that they had until it manifests right before your astonished eyes. Checking into a hotel with children is an abso...
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Of the 4 million babies born in the U.S. each year, approximately 12.3 percent of them will be premature and 3.56 percent will occur before 34 weeks. Premature birth is one of the leading causes of severe handicaps and has an annual cost of approximately 26 billion dollars. Although risk factors for...
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Thank you for taking the time to write and send packages to soldiers. The items provided to me were more than any one soldier could ask for. Words cannot express the way a soldier feels, when they know that their fellow Americans support the effort put in to keeping this world and our country safe. ...
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Less than three miles from the community of my youth, a maintenance worker from the Walt Whitman Projects in Brooklyn, New York heard the sound of a baby crying from a trash compactor and ultimately saved its life. When I was growing up, the trash compactor was referred to as the Incinerator Room be...
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How does one teach compassion Either you have it or you dont. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times made me cringe. In South Florida, fifteen ob-gyn practices out of 105 polled said that would not take care of a pregnant woman who weighed more than 200 to 250 pounds. The article goes on ......
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