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- Nation & World Views Life can't really be valued in dollars - Ithaca Journal
What's the value of a human life? ... We do have an answer, courtesy of our national nanny — the federal government. A human life is worth $6.9 million. To be more precise, that amount is the statistical value in today's dollars, calculated by the ...
- Obama's Grand Speech: Reason for Hope - Mother Jones
Obama's Grand Speech: Reason for HopeMother Jones, CA - 8 hours agoHe seeks to inspire and attract support with political poetry--but there's a touch of abstraction to the exercise. Nevertheless, what was in the speech was ...
- Winning poem receives mixed reception - North Queensland Register
Winning poem receives mixed receptionNorth Queensland Register, Australia - 40 minutes agoOn the 2008 Bronze Spur Award entry form it states: “Poems to be keyed to the theme of rural Australia, its people, animals, way of life and values” and ...
- Crossing barrios to promote peace (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO – Every Sunday, Lucky “2 Tears” Morales laces up his steel-toed boots, wraps a bandana across on his forehead and slips on his black, fingerless gloves to march the streets of southeastern San Diego alone.
- McCain's Annoying Little Fraud - Slate
( Pierre, S.D .) McCain would like everyone to think his campaign imploded last summer because of his courageous support for the surge in Iraq : I fought for the right strategy and more troops in Iraq, when it wasn't a popular thing to do. And when ...
- INTERVIEW: PHILLIPE PETITE & JAMES MARSH (MAN ON WIRE) - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
INTERVIEW: PHILLIPE PETITE & JAMES MARSH (MAN ON WIRE)Cinematic Happenings Under Development, NY - 3 hours agoGiven to flights of poetry while answering the simplest questions and given to praising himself to the heavens, he seems like a self-involved little ...
- Meet the man who has had sex with 1,000 cars! - Newstrack India
Melbourne, Aug 1 (ANI): A stunning woman won't set his heart racing but a car is more than enough to leave Edward Smith gasping for more. Smith claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars insisting that he would prefer a car over a woman any day. Smith's ...
- One Housing Group organise concert to unite young people and raise ... - 24dash
One Housing Group organise concert to unite young people and raise ...24dash, UK - 1 hour agoFollowing tomorrows concert, One Housing Group, in partnership with Castlehaven Youth Project, plan to set up an anti-violence forum, with representatives ...
- Sunday Journal: Trip to the morgue scares teen silly - St. Petersburg Times
One of my varied outside duties while working as a 16-year-old copy boy at our local newspaper was the trip to the city morgue to collect the obits and return them to the city editor for the next day's page. I hated making this trip. The morgue was ...
- Washburn puts the banjo in unlikely Chinese setting - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeWashburn puts the banjo in unlikely Chinese settingBoston Globe, United States - 16 minutes agoWhen she asked him to join her on a tour of China, he was so impressed by her clawhammer settings for Mandarin poetry that he jumped at the opportunity. ...
- Tips for Obama: no poetry, promise to defeat evil (Financial Times)
At the civil forum on faith last week, Barack Obama was asked whether evil existed and, if so, whether we should “ignore it, contain it, negotiate with it or defeat it?”
- Conventionist: Inside the DNC Media Swag Bag - Laist.com
DCist is here in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, which kicks off tomorrow. We were too wiped out to attend last night's big Media Welcome Party at Elitch Gardens (though there's some evidence we may not have gotten in anyway), but we ...
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings - The Independent
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This ...
- Musicians Perform for Pope One of His Favorites (Zenit News Agency)
VATICAN CITY, AUG. 26, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- The city of Castel Gandolfo offered its honored guest -- Benedict XVI -- a classical music concert in his honor, featuring one of the selections the Pope says is among his favorites.
- Review: Everything is Connected by Daniel Barenboim and Music at ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Review: Everything is Connected by Daniel Barenboim and Music at ...Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoYet during the last decade, Barenboim has also become celebrated for the originality and clarity he brings to speaking and writing about music. ...
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