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the money to keep the lights on has to come from somewhere. If 'keeping the lights on' is the priority then explain this; .. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/sep/21/at-the-foot-of-the-ladder/ For a host of reasons — from economic efficiency to the need for full-time teachers for introductory ...

"The moral code, the moral compass of the state-controlled media is something to behold. Now, some of you may not know the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner hosted a state dinner last night (January 19) for Hu Jintao of China. Hu Jintao is holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison in Chin...

For anyone in an engineering or design field, they're plentiful. Good luck getting any kind of Autodesk product to run properly in a virtual environment. Oh, I know that, but nevertheless those kind of jobs are a relatively small minority of all corporate personal computer users. For most of the la...

Suicides have been accompanying moneylenders for most of the last two centuries. Usually these loans are sought to meet living expenses or repay other loans, not generate further income. You don’t even need predatory practices for that to turn ugly. The frequent election promises of loan forgiveness...

Personally I feel road/bridge tolls are better means of limiting and organizing traffic into cities. It doesn't penalize folks for the convenience of an automobile provided they make a reasonable effort to live close to their workplaces/schools/markets. So, doesn't it feel like a never ending battle...

It may be wise to wait a couple days till the 6970 is released and see if it puts any pressure on the GTX460.

I wonder if the Indians will expel a diplomat in retaliation? The persons of ambassadors are supposed to be sacrosanct under international law. This is not the first time something like this has happened, though the last major infraction was by Continental Airlines, not the TSA directly. In that ca...

At the start of the 'miracle' in 1995, we had a local television channel demonstrate the same effect on an iron anvil at a workshop.

The white grade 8 NAEP reading score was 270. White males scored 267, so I'm guessing white females scored 273. Black males scored 238 versus 248 for black females. That's one third of the race gap right there. Why is there such a big difference between the boys and girls.