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College Life is A Journey
by KevinPowell
Sep 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
I can’t forget when I was still a kid; I usually go out on the streets and glimpse upon each moving car.  I told myself that I’ll get one someday.  I’m not from a very affluent family, we never watched movie together nor did we eat in fancy and expensive restaurants.  True, I don’t remember doing...
Romney’s Own Words Offend Latino Elderly and Working Families
by telluride
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
New SEIU and Priorities USA Action Ads Focus on Medicare and Home Foreclosures WASHINGTON, DC -- The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Priorities Action USA tomorrow will release the third round of television and radio ads in their groundbreaking, joint $4 milli...
U.S. Marines and Breast Cancer at Camp Lejeune
by rcorkran
May 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
Hey everyone.  On Wednesday night, I was listening to "Fresh Air" on NPR.  Terry Gross was interviewing the investigative journalist Florence Williams about her new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History . She did mention some of the leading chemicals that accumulate in the fatty tissue ...
adventures and romance
by DonnaHardy
May 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
Today , when media maintain enormous effect on community , on the awareness and people's thoughts , in addition to the national language and customs , when most is determined by the effectiveness and adequacy of data transmission - more tha...
Use the NOAA.gov website in the winter? You need to know this...
by spiritforpeace
May 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
NOAA is redesigning their website weather forecast service at http://www.noaa.gov.  What are they changing?  Well, the main thing is - they are taking away the human detailed point forecaster and it's hard to see where they intend to place the interactive map that is so helpful for back country...
my poor wallet
by rcorkran
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
Fellow concerned breathers, I love the hemp wallet I get from Down to Earth.  But every now and then I have to let the wallet sit in the sun because it is so saturated with toxic fragrances from the bills and the receipts in it.  While this is not a health risk to me, it just reminds me how ub...
The smell of success
by rcorkran
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
Concerned Fellow Breathers, Toxic fragrances in air scent dispensers are on their way out from the bathrooms at my office building!  Different floor cleaners are possible also.  So if you face the same problem, talk gently to the managers of the properties, show the information about the risk...
The smell of success
by rcorkran
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
Concerned Fellow Breathers, Toxic fragrances in air scent dispensers are on their way out from the bathrooms at my office building!  Different floor cleaners are possible also.  So if you face the same problem, talk gently to the managers of the properties, show the information about the risk...
Start of the blog
by rcorkran
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
Hey everyone, As you may or may not know, I wrote the letter to editor that appeared briefly on the homepage on April 26 & 27 regarding the need for a ban on toxic fragrances in public and commercial indoor spaces.  If you want to read it, enter "toxic fragrances" in the search box and you will ...
CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression
by TellurideFreePress
Feb 17, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
CBO: U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression by   Alex M. Parker February 16, 2012   After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the ...

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