Feb 13
CHICAGO — does your blood boil at the idea that a candidate for political office can be denied a spot on a ballot because of the inability to speak perfect English? or does the boiling commence when someone suggests that elected officials don’t need to be proficient in the English language to carry on the …
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Jan 30
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Jan 28
When graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon – rips under stress, it does so in a unique way that puzzled scientists who first observed the phenomenon. Instead of tearing randomly like a piece of paper would, it seeks the path of least resistance and creates new edges that give the material desirable qualities. …
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Jan 20
The speaker effect. Using one of the most gross examples, when Newt Gingrich talks about lazy blacks on welfare and food stamps who do not know the meaning of hard work he is mindful of his audience. Remember, politics is ultimately about the creation and reinforcement of imagined communities. Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, and Paul know exactly how to …
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Jan 19
Most people will tear the wrapping paper off their Christmas presents without a second thought tomorrow. Not Rachel Goodchild. she is already thinking about wrapping paper for next Christmas. Suzanne Savill meets her. Pictures: Chas Breton There are cut-out cardboard baubles hanging in front of the marble fireplace in Rachel Goodchild’s Bristol studio. They look …
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Jan 12
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G L Peiris on Tuesday met French ambassador to Colombo, Christine Robichon, and lodged a protest over postage stamps issued in France with images of rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Peiris said it was the responsibility of the French government to ensure that such publication should not …
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Jan 11
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack. Claiming the Postal Service is bankrupt, critics are pushing legislation that would defuse the postal crisis by breaking the backs of the postal workers’ unions and mandating widespread layoffs. but the …
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Jan 03
So I made my little sign thing and as I was doing it, I got tired and just wanted it finished, so I kinda did a rush job. it took me forever to do the words at the bottom because I was using alphabet stamps and originally my plan was to make a FABULOUS sign …
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Dec 25
I was standing on the Huntington Beach Pier one night a couple of weeks ago when we were having all those big offshore winds that were blowing over trees and stuff. ADVERTISEMENT We had just finished dinner at Duke’s with my pal Bugs Christian and my two sons, Clint and Tanner, and decided to take …
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Dec 23
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