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Bird's Eye View by Karen Wright |
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Written by Karen Wright
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”- Alan Cohen
Blindness is sneaky. It moves in slowly...undetected...and increasingly dims our sight. Today we see less than we did yesterday and tomorrow will even be more indistinct. |
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Ask and You Shall Receive by Jerry Maldonado |
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Written by Jerry Maldonado
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Anytime an accident of any kind happens there are people who don’t think about the reason it happened, all they do is ask why? Undoubtedly, those involved have a right, but there are some who understand that their prayers might have just been answered. |
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Enjoying ohe Passion Of the Here and Now - Life In the Fast Lane |
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Written by Wild-Man Bill
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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During my life, I’ve known many unhappy people who felt that way because they were getting up in years and they had never met their soul mate, the love of their life. Speaking about my own life, I’ve been with about three hundred women and there were three or four women that would have been the ideal wife for me if I had married any one of them. While I was involved with these women, my focus was on other things and I didn’t realize how wonderful they were until gone from my life. It was my fault that these relationships fell apart. |
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Finally, Another Medal of Honor for a Fallen Hero by Dorian de Wind |
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Written by Dorian de Wind
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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According to an article in Thursday’s Daily News Tribune, Waltham, Massachusetts: “Janet Monti was home nursing a cold when the call came in. At first, she thought it was a joke.
A person who claimed to be a White House aide asked if she would be around for the next half hour. Ten minutes later, she was on the phone with the President. “He said, ‘I hear you’re a little under the weather,’” she recalled of President Barack Obama’s first words to her. |
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San Diego Zoo, Museum, State and Federal Agencies Collaborate to Save Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog |
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Written by Green Liver
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Idyllwild, California - For the first time in nearly 50 years, a population of a nearly extinct frog has been rediscovered in the San Bernardino National Forest's San Jacinto Wilderness. Biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessing suitability of sites to re-establish frogs and scientists from the San Diego Natural History Museum retracing a 1908 natural history expedition both rediscovered the rare mountain yellow-legged frog in the San Jacinto Wilderness near Idyllwild, California. |
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What Makes a Rolling Landscape Roll? |
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Written by MIT
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Cambridge, Massachusets - Anyone who has flown over the western United States knows the patterns well: Seemingly endless repetitions of similar landforms, ridges and valleys and ridges and valleys arranged with nearly the regularity of the teeth on a comb. Now, an MIT geologist and co-workers say they have found the underlying mechanism that explains these widespread patterns - and how they vary from one place to another. |
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UCLA Scientists Present First Genetic Evidence for Why Placebos Work |
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Written by UCLA
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Los Angeles, California - Placebos are a sham - usually mere sugar pills designed to represent "no treatment" in a clinical treatment study. The effectiveness of the actual medication is compared with the placebo to determine if the medication works.
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Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision |
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Written by NASA
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
Baltimore, Maryland - NASA scientists have interrupted the checkout and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. The spot, caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid, is changing day to day in the planet's cloud tops. |
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Border Patrol Seizes Marijuana Despite Lead Shield |
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Written by Sunday NewsCape
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Sarita, Texas - Border Patrol agents assigned to the Kingsville, Texas station seized 115.8 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $92,640 yesterday. |
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Turbulence! by Jackie Papandrew |
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Written by Jackie Papandrew
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 |
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I had the honor of being in Philadelphia - at Independence Hall - on July Fourth this year. It was a moving experience. We had an enthusiastic National Park Service guide who gave us all the salient historical details and then threw in some interesting tidbits, like the fact that the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence was 26 and the oldest - acclaimed kite-flyer Ben Franklin - was 70. |
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