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Make Love With Your Money
By Natalie Pace · 15 years ago
You are a creator of our world. Your retirement dollars are invested in the corporations that define our existence. When you realize the power of your money and investments as tools to make you rich ...
The Dangers of Radiation
By Michael Ozner Md Facc Faha · 15 years ago
The most serious problem with the widespread use of CAT scans is the radiation these devices leave in our bodies. CAT scans are not simple chest X-rays, which deliver only a small amount of radiation. ...
Divas, They're Just Like You and Me
By David Desmond · 15 years ago
Do you demand only the finest 1000 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheets or require that your bath be drawn only with bottled spring water? Do you insist that your coffee be stirred only counter‐clockwise? If ...
Chapter 2 (excerpt)
By Inga C Ellzey · 15 years ago
Jewelle's breathing was labored as she came back to reality from her horrible thoughts of that night seven years ago. She focused and realized she wasn't in that hotel room. She wasn't awaiting trial. There ...
Texting in Dating and Relationships: Avoiding the Ten Deadly Mistakes
By Dr Diana Kirschner · 15 years ago
I think texting rocks! It means that no matter what you are doing you can be in touch with and connected to your loved ones. Texting has absolutely deepened our dating and love relationships. Now ...
Why They Talked, and What They Want
By Bill Murphy Jr · 15 years ago
A great gulf exists between American military and civilian societies. But paradoxically, it can be hard to tell young veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from their peers who haven't served. As I ...
Long John Silver for President
By Edward Chupack · 15 years ago
The country and the world are in crisis. Markets are melting like snow cones in the sub-Saharan desert. Unfortunately, neither of the U.S. presidential candidates has a plan to steer the economy out of this ...
Vaginal Deliveries
By Jennifer Wider, Md · 16 years ago
Recovery time from a vaginal delivery is usually shorter than the recovery time from a Cesarean section. But sometimes it can take a while, especially if you've experienced any lacerations or tears.
The perineum, or ...
The Blame Game
By Judith O'reilly · 16 years ago
As a parent, you accept from the start that it is all your fault. Every last inhibition, weakness and thing that goes wrong in your child's life is down to you -- however old they ...
Debunking the Myth of the Oil Crisis
By Robin M Mills · 16 years ago
The opening years of the 21st century are marked by milestones in the world of oil: the war in Iraq, the Shell reserves downgrade, Hurricane Katrina, and the breaking of the once unthinkable $100 per ...
How Gentrification Saved Harlem
By Judith Matloff · 16 years ago
Recently homeowners in my corner of Harlem held a soiree in someone's garden. We form a warm group of 130 people who represent the changing neighborhood -- black old-timers with a growing number of whites. ...
How To Talk Like a Pirate, Me Hearty -- A Tutorial
By Edward Chupack · 16 years ago
So you wants to parley like a pirate, do yee? Thar be certain matters to attend to afore yee can tack about and talk like a proper tar. Some landlubbers ain't suited for the seafaring ...
The Myth of the Oil Crisis
By Robin M Mills · 16 years ago
There are some things most people today know about oil.
* Global oil output is going to plummet
* Prices are going to rise forever
* The transition to alternative energy will be long and ...
Some Reflections on Bob Woodruff's China White Wash
By Peter Navarro · 16 years ago
"So near to the truth, yet so far." That’s the feeling I came away with after watching Bob Woodruff’s recent China Inside Out documentary for ABC news. It’s regrettable that a journalist of such a ...
Prologue (Pharmakon book excerpt)
By Dirk Wittenborn · 16 years ago
I was born because a man came to kill my father. If he hadn't showed up with a gun in his pocket and bad thoughts in his head, I wouldn't exist, much less have a ...
Somalia, Long John Silver and the U.N.
By Edward Chupack · 16 years ago
What do Somalia, Long John Silver and the U.N. have in common? The answer, unfortunately, is confusion.
Somalia is a regime without a central government. The country would be an Abbott and Costello routine, little ...
Lawyers and Pirates
By Edward Chupack · 16 years ago
I have been surprised since writing my novel, "SILVER -- My Own Tale As Told By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder", by a particular question that readers have asked and the frequency with ...
How Do Pirates Dress For Halloween (And What Do They Do?)
By Edward Chupack · 16 years ago
How do pirates dress for Halloween? They can't strap on a peg leg, prop a plastic parrot on their shoulders, apply an eye patch and wrap a red bandana around their scurvy heads. That's no ...
Comrade Lenin: Alive and Well
By Daniel Silva · 16 years ago
The New Russia may have finally embraced free-market capitalism, but Vladimir Lenin, founder of Soviet communism and one of the great murderers of the twentieth century, still casts a long shadow across the Russian landscape. ...
Shrink Not -- Adjust the sail and seek The New Gold Standard of Leadership
By Joseph A. Michelli · 16 years ago
Soaring gas prices and the US credit crunch have many business owners scurrying to reduce costs and "do more with less." But this natural and reflexive approach to economic uncertainty is often the worst path ...