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What were they smoking? asks the cover of the current issue of Fortune magazine. Underneath the headline are photos of recently deposed Wall Street titans, captioned with the staggering sums they managed to lose.
The answer, of course, is that they were high on the usual drug greed. And they were encouraged to make socially destructive decisions by a system of executive compensation that should have been reformed after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, but wasnt.What were they smoking? asks the cover of the current issue of Fortune magazine.... more
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The African Diaspora Film Festival has grown each year since its genesis in a kitchen-table conversation between a couple of film fanatics frustrated by the shallow pool of black films in New York. Starting today the 15th edition of the festival will offer something for just about anyone interested in the global black experience: 102 films from 43 countries in a 17-day feast of documentaries, comedies, musicals, dramas and romances.The African Diaspora Film Festival has grown each year since its genesis in a... more
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JESENIK, Czech Republic The methamphetamine epidemic is not just a scourge of the American heartland. It has a powerful foothold here in the heart of Central Europe. Home meth labs are sprouting up all over the country to produce this cheap, potent drug using the pseudoephedrine found in common cold medications.
I think I will die because of this
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One of my classmates, out of a very small high school graduating class of 18 (yes, I said 18), murdered someone after spiraling down to a crank addiction.
He got life with out possibility of parole. He was scary as hell, and so is crank.
PLEASE EUROPE, DO WHAT YOU CAN TO STOP METH IN IT'S TRACKS.
Restrict pseudoephedrine sales immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JESENIK, Czech Republic The methamphetamine epidemic is not just a scourge of the... more
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MALMO, Sweden Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship recently, his face flecked by spray, Arne Floderus pronounced it a good day for his new offshore wind farm.
A 30-mile-an-hour wind was twirling the fingerlike blades of a turbine 380 feet above his head. Around him, a field of turbines rotated in a synchronized ballet that, when fully connected to an electrical grid, would generate enough power to light 60,000 nearby houses.
Weve created a new landmark, said Mr. Floderus, the project manager of the $280 million wind park, one of the worlds largest, which was built by the Swedish power company Vattenfall.
The park, in a shallow sound between Sweden and Denmark, testifies to the remarkable rise of wind energy no longer a quirky alternative favored by environmentalists in Denmark and Germany, but a mainstream power source used in 26 nations, including the United States.MALMO, Sweden Steadying himself on the heaving foredeck of an inspection ship... more
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Nov. 22 President Álvaro Uribe withdrew his support late Wednesday for efforts by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela to broker the release of dozens of hostages believed to be held by this countrys largest rebel group, including three American military contractors who were captured in 2003.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France quickly urged Mr. Uribe to reconsider; among the 45 or so political hostages seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate here with Colombian and French citizenship. BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Nov. 22 President Álvaro Uribe withdrew his support... more
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PARIS, Nov. 22 A crippling national transportation strike that has lasted nine days appeared to be sputtering to an end on Thursday as rail workers fighting to retain early retirement rights seemed willing to accept negotiations and voted throughout the country to return to work.
More than 40 union assemblies across France voted to return to work, but more votes were being held. The state-owned rail operator S.N.C.F. hailed the early voting as a sign of a dynamic to return to work, and union officials talked about a climate to suspend the strike.
It has been a symbolic clash that has tested the resolve of the transportation unions fighting an unpopular battle to allow their workers to retire in their 50s with full pension benefits against that of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
PARIS, Nov. 22 A crippling national transportation strike that has lasted nine days... more
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I think we need to bring reading into the 21st century, so we aren't doomed to perpetually keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again as a society.
After all there's continually more and more distractions, and less and less reading of actual books by many in todays TV nation.
Internet, cellphone, sattelite, iPhone, PSP, ETC.
Is this just adding more noise to the pleathura of products already out there, or can this make a difference?
I emphasize reading at home, but I don't have a good library nearby, and I do have this internet connection. Instant book downloading could save the planet a bundle on all those Amazon book orders that have to get flown and or driven to our houses.
This would reduce our transportation carbon footprint!?!
Or more e-waste, don't need it!?!
What do you think?
I know I want one.
"Its goal is to have every printed book on earth available for instant download."
"But the part that will really rock your world is the Kindles free wireless cellular broadband service."
I think we need to bring reading into the 21st century, so we aren't doomed to... more
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This blog highlights the first time the Simpsons, Microsoft and the iPod were mentioned in the New York Times. How things can change!This blog highlights the first time the Simpsons, Microsoft and the iPod were... more
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