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Being a fan of musical theatre (and having participated in many a cheesy production myself), this just warms the cockles of my heart. See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die Kady is on a holiday induced sabbatical over at Wonkess.

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From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB supports Colombia’s water and sanitation reforms US$250 million loan tied to program to reach universal service coverage in Colombian cities and sharply reduce the coverage gap in rural areas by 2019 Colombia will consolidate its water and sanitation

In her periodic newsletter and update, Goddard College Professor Catherine Lowther circulates items of interest on environmental issues. With her permission, we pass these items to our readers. Gland, Switzerland: The world is heading for an ecological credit crunch as human demands on the world’s natural capital reach nearly a third more than earth can sustain.

For anyone, there is a limit as to how far you can go as far as staying awake is concerned. Particularly for people in profession, it would be wise to know when to keep on going and when to sleep. As far as medical people are concerned, it has been found that after 16 hours, they better slow down and get some rest if they want to remain competent.

From the World Bank: World Leaders Call for More Investment in Global Health A new high-level taskforce* set up to find new ways to finance better health results in poor countries has held its inaugural meeting in Doha at the UN Financing For Development Summit in Qatar. "This is a unique moment for us all.

I just ran into this in homeschool news about Carol Plum-Ucci. Looks like she’s hooked: Award-winning Author’s Memoir Chronicles How and Why She Homeschooled Her Daughter Homeschooling Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education and Tells All, a memoir by Carol Plum-Ucci, seeks to reveal how the

A Siegel wants aggressive action to green our country's school buildings, which is a "win-win-win-win strategy" because it would: # Save money for communities and taxpayers # Create employment # Foster capacity for 'greening' the nation # Reduce pollution loads # Improve health # Improve student performance / achievement Click here to read A Siegel's whole piece--there's a lot in there.

As if anyone would be interested in Dan Rather being “unleashed,” Tuesday's edition of the IFC Media Project, a weekly far-left show that presumes the media are biased to the right, featured Rather whining about too much entertainment in news and blaming “the big, huge international conglomerate that

I certainly don’t think President Bush has been a great President, and I think it would be more fair to judge him from the perspective of history instead of now when emotions about his leadership still run high, but those things aside I can certainly say that he hasn’t been the worst President in 50 years.