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Contributed by Klaus H Hemsath
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 Triple Threat
Future generations will have to pay dearly for the failure of previous national governments to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions and to change world energy supplies. Our dependence on fossil fuels must be terminated completely within the next three to four decades or the world will self-destruct.
Let's us look at the facts that lead to these frightening conclusions. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Open to Snowboarders
Taos Ski Valley has been planning for months in order to accommodate an
overflow crowd of mountain enthusiasts who eagerly await the
opportunity to ski and ride on one of the most memorable days in recent
snow sports history. Tickets for the snowboarding opening, which the
resort has jokingly referred to as "the day hell freezes over," went on
sale yesterday. "It is going to be a wild day," said Adriana Blake,
Taos Ski Valley's Marketing Director. "Get here early." |
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Contributed by Danna Schneider
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 Bear Strearns = BS
A combination of factors have created a very volatile stock market, housing market, increasing inflation and cost of living, and a faltering job market, but one key component of a failing economy plays an intangible role in facilitating and perpetuating economic instability.
That component is human fear. We can't help it, we've evolved with fear as one of our main emotions, and the media and our surroundings have only helped it along by declaring "the sky if falling" with it's seemingly nonstop doomsday headlines.
Heck, you can't read your email without seeing the headlines on the side declaring that we are headed for worse times before they get better, costs are skyrocketing, foreclosures are at an all time high, gas prices are astronomical, and basically that everything is working against us right now. |
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Contributed by Stephanie Sammour
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 Mortgage Crisis There aren't many that have a ton of extra cash just lying around and are ready to gamble it away with an unlucky or unfortunate investment. It also doesn't help matter much that many are losing their jobs, especially those in the home building and real estate markets. There simply isn't a large demand for houses because first of all no one can sell the one they have and because of that fact few people are in the market for a new home. |
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Contributed by Uma Shankari
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 New-Age English Her teacher was horrified: has the web-slanguage of the student spilled over from the chat room to the class room? Maya says that she was in a hurry to finish the test on time and hadn’t noticed what she had written. That had been the teacher’s fear too: have the youngsters become so used to writing u instead of you, so used to ignoring the capitalizations, so used to omitting the punctuations and vowels and articles in the chat room that they find nothing odd in their writing? |
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