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Mothers increasingly look like their daughters, and they, mothers and daughters, both behave like little girls. Fathers compete with their sons. We all try to stay young until we die. Nobody wants to be lumped in the “old jerks” category anymore. That’s why the world, or the richest and
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Recently, Wal-Mart has been rolling out plans for what it calls a sustainability index — a measure of how green the products it sells really are. It is asking each of its suppliers, an enormous list of businesses, 15 questions about the life of their products from manufacturing through disposal:
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Books fly off shelves as library use soars http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090108/NEWS0107/901080426/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 The Santa Barbara Independent Libraries Busy in Faltering Economy http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jan/08/libraries-busy-faltering-economy/ The Public Library
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She might have three selves, but she also has two different styles. The French one, which loves these abstract ideas of freedom and the future. And the American one, with its management clichés of teamwork and listening. The two make an odd mixture. Perhaps she herself is a miniature version
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I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that explains the national debt. It has been called the Inconvenient Truth of fiscal realities: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo] The CEPR disagrees with the documentary's numbers. David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, on 60
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A long article at The New Yorker
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The Christian Science Monitor will cease publishing a weekday paper. Time Inc. is was cutting 600 jobs and reorganizing its staff. The largest newspaper publisher in the country is laying off up to 3,000 people. The Los Angeles Times' newsroom is half the size it was just seven
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From "How to rebuild America".
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the current economic woes look a lot like what my 96-year-old grandmother still calls "the real Great Depression." She pinched pennies in the 1930s but she says that times were not nearly so bad as the depression her grandparents went through. That crash came in 1873
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* Pay the Salaries of 22 Million People * Establish Universal Health Coverage * Purchase a Communications System for Emergency Medical Services * Build Levees around New Orleans * Buy Denmark -- Twice * Finance Germany's Entire National Budget for Over a Year * Fight Poverty in Africa for 10 Years * Finance all US Intelligence Operations
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The money meltdown.
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By 2015, the United States will have more than 45 million households with people from 51 to 70 years old, compared with about 25 million for the “silent” generation, born from 1925 to 1945. Their real disposable income and consumption will be roughly 40 percent higher, and they will control