SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Back to school, with panic buttons: The post-Uvalde scramble Brent Kiger, Olathe Public Schools' director of safety service, displays a panic-alert button while students at Olathe South High School rush between classes Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Olathe, Kan. The district introduced the buttons, which allow staff to trigger a lockdown that will be announced with flashing strobe lights, a takeover of staff computers and a prerecorded intercom announcement, at the start of this school year as part of $2.1 million plan to make district schools more secure. ADVERTISEMENT Melissa Lee comforted her son and daughter after a student opened fire in their suburban Kansas City high school, wounding an administrator and a police officer stationed there. Then weeks later, she wept for the parents in Uvalde, Texas, who were forced to bury their children af

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Singapore will decriminalise sex between men, says prime minister Lee Hsien Loong says Singapore will repeal law criminalising sex between men, but will uphold traditional definition of marriage. ADVERTISEMENT Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced that his country will decriminalise sex between men, but will continue to uphold the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. ADVERTISEMENT In his annual national day rally speech, Lee said on Sunday that he believed repealing Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, is the “right thing to do” as most Singaporeans were becoming more accepting of gay people. ADVERTISEMENT “Private sexual behaviour between consenting adults does not raise any law and order issue. There is no justification to pro

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Is Loneliness Preferable to a Mismatched Marriage? Most of us have read or heard about the depressing statistics regarding marriage and divorce. Roughly half of all marriages end prematurely; and of those remaining, many more linger on unhappily. It may be argued that those people in the latter group are even more unfortunate than those who are divorced. It all begs the question as to whether or not it might be preferable to simply remain alone rather than become entangled in a committed relationship where there's little or no compatibility between partners. ADVERTISEMENT The decision to marry – or not - is one of the most momentous ones that many of us will ever have to make, and yet all too often it is taken lightly. ADVERTISEMENT When faced with the question of what they look for in a person whom they'd want to share thei