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• My friend Quinn celebrates her 40th wedding anniversary!

  
  Midlife Crisis Queen: The Weblog — Authority: 429
  MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND by Quinn Reed My husband and I were married forty years ago, but we have long ago tired of the usual anniversary gifts of jewelry for me and tools for him.  Our anniversary gift exchange needed a re-invent. So, two weeks before our fortieth, we came up with a new approach.  For my gift, ...
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• Global Crisis, Global Solutions: Costs and Benefits edited by Bjorn Lomborg,

  
  Oxfordprospect.co.uk - Oxford News — Authority: 131
  published on Aug 31, 2009 by Cambridge University Press (2nd Edition)Hardback, ISBN-13: 9780521517218 Paperback, ISBN-13: 9780521741224 Price £21.99 A book review by Nicholas Newman 6 January 2010Increasingly, we are hearing the term that something must be done to solve the world’s almost never-ending ending ...
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• Cancer And The Dirty Electricity Plague

  
  In These New Times — Authority: 137
  donna FisherHealthnoob4th January, 2009“… the 20th century epidemic of the so called diseases of civilization including cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes and suicide was caused by electrification not by lifestyle. A large proportion of these diseases may therefore be preventable.”(i)Released in the ...
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• 2010: Trends and realities, Part II

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 500
  Click here to read Part I. Rich content Media platforms are inevitably becoming intertwined, so the focus shouldn’t be on “what” medium to use but the quality of the content that will be applied. Here, content truly is king. “You know that content is rich if it can be implemented across any ...
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• A discussion on moral philosophy with Jonathan Glover

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 561
  Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher known for his studies on bioethics. I interviewed him about books that shed light on moral philosophy and he made surprising selections.‘I teach philosophy, especially ethics,’ he said. ‘This could be a list of books by the great philosophers, but only one of them fits ...
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• "Of course, there are those, who, like consummate gamblers, believe that betting on red or black a..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 136
  “Of course, there are those, who, like consummate gamblers, believe that betting on red or black a few hundred times each day is actually a viable strategy to make money (despite hitting double zero half the time). To all those we have five words: Form W-2G and Form 5754. Here is the IRS’ opinion: “Gambling ...
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• Michael Pollan Talks Food Rules with Jon Stewart

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  It seems like just yesterday that Michael Pollan was out pushing his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (it was actually 2008 – where did the time go?). But Pollan, renowned professor, journalist and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma , has yet another food-related book on the shelves, and he took ...
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• Brazil’s exports to US down 42 percent in

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Sao Paulo, Jan 6 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian exports to the US fell 42.2 percent in 2009, a senior official said.The secretary of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Ministry Welber Barral acknowledged the drop in sales to the US but stressed that total trade between the two countries was $35.9 billion last year, down ...
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• Global Cooling in 2009

  
  In These New Times — Authority: 137
  Global Research4th January, 20092009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore’s home town and ironically a blizzarddumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world ...
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• Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  By Kevin Drawbaugh and Huw Jones Reuters WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Global financial regulation has changed little since the 2008 banking crisis, but that won’t be the case much longer. U.S. and EU authorities are expected to hammer out the definite shape of a new regulatory order in 2010 that will ...
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• Iceland president rejects bank payments, calls for referendum

  
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  As easy as it is to sympathize with the voters there who believe the problems from the banks are the problems with the banks, rejecting the payments will create another set of problems that may even be worse. Who would really think that the reckless behavior of bankers would mean paying out 40% of the GDP? Besides ...
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• “Shame”

  
  Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged — Authority: 135
  The word “shame” has a curious meaning in South Africa. Its mostly used as an interjection, something like: “Pity, poor thing.” Well shame, I dropped off wife M. at hospital this morning, and saw to it that she had settled in nicely in a ward. Her red blood count had fallen critically low. I interrupted my ...
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• Pound’s fall a symptom of crisis, not a problem in itself – Reuters UK

  
  UK Bankruptcy - Help, Information, Assistance and Answers — Authority: 146
  Pound’s fall a symptom of crisis, not a problem in itself Reuters UK, UK - 2 hours ago There is little sign of that happening, however, and Britain is very far from the extreme situation of Iceland, portrayed as ‘national bankruptcy ’. … Continue here: Pound’s fall a symptom of crisis, not a problem in ...
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• azspot:100 Years of Consumer Spending

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 136
  azspot : 100 Years of Consumer Spending
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• Iceland Says It Won’t Default Following Junk Rating – BusinessWeek

  
  Discover520.COM — Authority: 175
  Globe and Mail Iceland Says It Wont Default Following Junk Rating BusinessWeek ... an international bailout agreement and has already triggered ratings downgrades in the western nation hardest hit by the global credit crisis . ... Iceland Blocks Bank Compensation for Foreigners New York ...
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• "Society is not benefited by this kind of rent-seeking. Unfortunately, our politicians do not..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 136
  “Society is not benefited by this kind of rent-seeking. Unfortunately, our politicians do not understand what rent-seeking is. As a result, they confuse false GDP created by rent-seeking for real GDP and choose to look the other way as the rentier class imposes private taxation-without-representation on society. ...
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• Venezuela may shut industries due to power shortage

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Caracas, Jan 6 (IANS/EFE) Hit by a severe power crisis, Venezuela has announced that it may shut down a few aluminium and steel plants as part of the country’s electricity conservation measures.The government cannot rule out suspending operations at state-owned steel mills and aluminium plants as part of measures ...
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• Emotional or Suicidal....

  
  Ti Lian Ker (Thinking Aloud) — Authority: 126
  Of late we have seen childish emotional behavioral pattern among our past or present leaders and our people too. This is more prevalent after the last general election whereby politicians, NGOs and individuals rush to go public with their emotions on their sleeves in a blatant display of heroics. Sometimes ...
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• Foreclosure crisis: 75-year-old Naples man loses home of 47 years – Naples Daily News

  
  Discover520.COM — Authority: 175
  Foreclosure crisis : 75-year-old Naples man loses home of 47 years Naples Daily News Its been held up as an example of the kind of sub-prime lender that started the credit crisis in the first place. On Keiths loan documents, ... and more »
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• Y2.01K

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 137
  After our recent discussion of decimal/hexadecimal confusion at the turn of 2010, alphadogg writes in with a Network World survey of wider problems caused by the date change. "A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking ...
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