Kaua'i, HA, USA - Mankind spends a lot of time in its own self-exaltation. We are always celebrating and praising the talents of one person or another. We are, after all, a unique accomplishment. Humans are the animals that think and possess consciousness. We are also the simultaneous co-creators and destroyers of this planet. A powerful lot, or at least we've become accustomed to telling ourselves...MORE
DAY ONE:
by KEVIN CAREY
I admired his delicacy but said that we and our children were responsible for the dilemma Holly faced; we had at best tolerated and at worst continued to vote for and benefit from a widening gap between the rich and the poor. We had, in the era of Thatcher and Reagan, turned greed into a public virtue, ignoring the downstream consequences in the form of poverty and social dislocation, environmental damage, crumbling public services and scandals like Enron. ...MORE
Sussex, United Kingdom - Recently at a dinner party, an old friend of impeccable good sense and wry humour uncharacteristically worried that his grand-daughter's graduation prom had been extravagant because it might make less prosperous peers feel inferior.
Give me your heart
Make it REAL
Or else forget about it ... - Santana
POWERSSOUND
by BOB POWERS
Marietta, OH, USA - Rosemary, this one's for you.
Fans of Rosemary Clooney knew it could be coming, but they didn't want to believe. The woman who spent nearly 60 years in show business died the evening of June 29 in her beloved home that once belonged to George Gershwin in Beverly Hills, California.
The news came after an announcement days earlier that lung cancer -- for which she had had surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., early this year -- had returned. Rosemary was familiar with comebacks; her career was filled with them....MORE
MY GLASS HOUSE:
by ROD AMIS
I didn't.
She shared it with me. He had lived there back in '96 or so, when she had. His name was James. He had shot himself up with Brasso and then hanged himself right in front of the large window that faces the street in the room where I now sleep....MORE
NEW ORLEANS - I should have been tipped off that night at the R Bar. My friend Beth showed up with a group of her archaeological cronies on their big night out away from their various digs, here in Louisiana and in Florida. As we were talking, she told me that she had lived in the flat directly across the hall from the one I am staying in for the month. Then she asked if I knew the story of the guy who had stayed in my room.
RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT:
by MIKHAIL TANK
Walnut Creek, CA, USA - You see it floating within the green bottles of Superfood Odwalla fruit juice drinks at your nearby supermarket, you dip your sushi and sashimi into it when you use the green horseradish, Wasabi, at any Japanese restaurant. Spirulina! It is the earliest living organism still alive today. It is the living organism at the very bottom of the food chain, encompassing a tremendous amount of energy, vitamins, minerals, health cures and, as Odwalla states, "has the most digestible protein than any other natural food source."
Spirulina can be easily grown in water supplies, thus cutting down the need to kill livestock and many other valuable parts of the food chain, as well as trees for space to grow food...MORE
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