Archive for April, 2009
Bedbugs — Be Gone!
Snipped from Examiner.com.
Yes, bedbugs be gone, but at what price? Oh how nice it would be to be rid of the little critters! Well, bedbugs may soon be eradicated or least controlled.
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Need To Escape? Then Just Imagine
Sure, you can name the play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the 1950’s. You might tell the following facts to anyone willing to listen: the name of the first man to conquer Mount Everest, know who played the movie role of Lawrence of Arabia, rattle off the capitols of each of the fifty states, can recall the man who, with just a smile and a fountain pen, pulled off the biggest billion dollar scam ever. You know lots of stuff, don’t you?
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“Proposed Bans on BPA Picking up Steam”
Snipped from SciAm.com.
It looks like the critics of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in #6 plastics called polycarbonates, are winning the war over its wanted ban. The rationale behind the worry of BPA comes from its ability to mimic the female hormone estrogen, aka. an endocrine disrupter.
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A System From Hell
How a Medical Crisis Put a Family in Financial Ruin
Snipped from TheNation.com.
This story is a must read. It covers a personal account of how a family ended up in financial ruin because of America’s broken and profit-centered health care.
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Neuroscience: Why Poverty Perpetuates Itself
“I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told.” — Paul Simon
Photo: www.urbanministries.org
It seems we are slowly starting to unveil what constructs the “person” that each of us become. Will she be an extrovert, a success story, a victim of poverty or an intellectual? These questions are on the forefront of nearly all parent’s minds, and it seems we are getting closer to figuring out just what constitutes who we are.
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Ten Ready-Made Excuses to Avoid Jury Duty
10) “While waiting to be interviewed, Your Honor, I took a 10 to 1 bet that this defendant would be found ‘not guilty.’ ”
9) “Yes, Your Honor, I’ve served on a jury before, in fact, 27 times. After I was laid-off, I became a professional juror for the pay we’re allotted for days served.”
8) “Certainly, I can serve on a jury providing the court permits me to bring my youngest, so I can breast-feed her during the trial.”
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