http://www.wordscrawl.com Blog that talks. Word Scrawl is a blog maintained by Amanda M Roberts to advise and inform on the matters of the world. Word Scrawl is built to serve you. Subscribe to Word Scrawl because we let the word speak. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A story in the News today got me thinking. Apparently, a death row inmate in Kentucky is finally getting his wish to be executed. This man, Marco Allen Chapman, killed two children, stabbed another, and raped and stabbed a woman in her bed. Chapman pled guilty and asked for the ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/opinion/a-lonely-walk-down-death-row/ The Good: My generation, the generation who went to kindergarten without computers and now can’t be separated from them, was constantly exposed to the anti-smoking message. We heard the “Just Say No”, the D.A.R.E. program chased us all through middle and elementary school, and the Lung Mobile showed some of ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/health-news/studies-galore/ The Good: The call for accountability on social websites has been heard since the site’s origination. Finally now there will be a marked difference in security measures on Facebook. Facebook’s plan, which has been approved by every state but Texas, would call for increased identity verification measures. It would then ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/technology/dirt-and-facebook/ The Good: The past few days, INTERPOL has posted photos of Wayne Nelson Corliss, a globetrotting American, on its website. Photos of Corliss from 2001 were found on a computer seized by Norwegian authorities. The photos, over a hundred in number, showed Corliss sexually abusing three boys, all under the ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/world/children/ The Progressive: Everything starts in California. Energy policy, new school systems, you name it, it starts somewhere in California. This is no surprise then than California would be the first to bring in a dietician to straighten out its police force. Rana Parker, a diet coach who used to work ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/united-states/recruits/ The Good: Today on CNN I ran across an article that I think all my readers should see. With all the rumors of vaccines causing autism, medication mistakes, and the like, many adults are not keeping up with their health the way they should. Why reluctance to accept the ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/health-news/health-vaccines-and-adoptions/ The Good: Stephen Colbert, one of the most annoying and funny people out there, has another title to add to his list. Colbert is already an Emmy Award nominee and winner, a Peabody Award Winner, the inventor of the “word of the year”, an honorary Doctorate recipient, one of the ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/technology/courts-and-colbert/ The Good: In 2007 the United States lead a surge of troops into Iraq to help police the streets and lower levels of violence. Opinions on the war aside, it has now been determined that the surge is no longer needed and 3,500 troops will be going home in the ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/world/destruction-overseas-iraq-and-myanmar/ The Interesting: Ever since Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds there seems to be this sinister stigma attached to our feathered friends. New research shows though that many of them are more afraid of us then we are of them. Yes, the old adage is true, a study by the University of Bristol ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/united-states/animal-news-birds-and-sea-lions/ The Admirable: We all known that teen pregnancy happens all over the United States and the world. One young mother though knew what to do in this situation. The 17-year-old girl woke up at 5:30 to shower and get ready for school when she felt herself getting contractions. She had ... http://www.wordscrawl.com/news/united-states/pregnancy-in-2008/