You would think, if you listened to right-wing talk radio, that the possibility of US energy independence was an exemplar of the wonderful ways of liberty and free enterprise. Think again. Fracking as a technology was conceived in the I970s, at a time of the oil crisis, and was for many years a government research …
.From the same state that suspended a 7-year-old for turning his Pop Tart into a Pop Tart shaped like a gun, comes a ban on hugging. Southern Maryland Newspapers Online reports on the new guidelines for visitors, parents and students for St. Mary’s County public elementary schools: Birthday invitations should not be handed out at …
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I can’t resist it. This is a comment by Carmen Grayson, referring to my last post (below): Right! What do you think of this remedy? BEGIN your working life retired, look around awhile, THEN go after the job you love and never quit. People who spent their lives working at what they love will hesitate …
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Older people who feel they have a purpose in life are significantly less likely to suffer a stroke than those with few objectives, research has found. Researchers in Michigan studied 6,739 men and women over 50 and found that those who scored highly for “directedness” – who felt their lives had meaning and who had …
Indulge me. Cyprus is in the news, and I have a special emotional connection with that beautiful island having served there as a soldier many years ago. In 1878 the British, under the Cyprus Convention, took over the effective rule of Cyprus from Turkey. The objective was to underpin the weak Ottoman Empire and stop …
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