How to leverage gold and silver without any borrowings « Peter J. Cooper’s...

" In any rising market for precious metals, and with inflation and dollar devaluation inevitable as part of the bail-out of the American financial crisis I do not see how we can be about to experience anything else, there have to be some associated asset classes that do...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Bin Laden's driver found guilty in a split verdict

"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. A...

Al Gore's call for renewable energy sets us up for a useful failure

Many environmentalists (like Al Gore) have been calling for more rapid adoption of green technologies. But as this piece illustrates, it won't be as easy as Gore and others have been saying. But as the article...

115-year-old Woman's Brain in Tip-Top Shape

" A Dutch woman who reached 115 years of age and remained mentally sharp throughout life also had a healthy brain when she died, a new study finds.The woman's brain showed almost no evidence of Alzheimer's disease. The finding suggests Alzheimer's disease and other forms of...

England: first Towns prepare for life after oil

Many people envision future where we come to terms with inevitable fuel shortages"Maybe after your meal you take a walk down the car-free streets to the nearest bar where you buy a round of drinks with locally...

Race Matters

" NEW YORK--Do white right-wing preachers have it easier than black left-wing preachers? Is there a double standard? The political explosion around the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was inevitable, given Wright's personal closeness to Barack Obama and the outrageous rubbish the pastor...

We get happier with age, study says

This is good news indeed: with age comes contentment, according to an extensive new study.The findings make sense on an intuitive level; older folk seem to know and accept themselves moreso than do idealistic...

California prisons rocked by problems

Chino Mayor Dennis Yates said the dilapidated prison dormitory where Friday's fight between inmates took place was built to house 60 men but holds nearly 200."It's a ticking bomb down there," he said.The...

Best case/worst case for the next president

"It was inevitable that they would play the race-card, make the issue about him not being qualified for the job. I said it here myself. America is a fearful, racially divided country, at some point his skin-color is going to be an issue, and by «issue», I mean «problem». "

Can Artists Be Labels? Reznor, Radiohead, and the Mass Market

While artists rail against exploitative labels, those labels do fulfill a role in the entertainment-biz ecosystem: basically, everything other than actually recording and performing the music. However, thigs are...

Irish Royal visit is 'inevitable'

"A visit to the Republic of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II is inevitable, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has said. Mr Ahern was speaking on RTE radio on Christmas Eve when he made the comment. "I think she will...

Stockpile food for flu crisis

"EVERY Australian household should stockpile at least 10 weeks' worth of food rations to prepare for a deadly flu pandemic, a panel of leading nutritionists has warned.  World health experts now agree a...

Hillary Clinton: a good leader (for a girl)

This is a really interesting discussion of gender issues as they pertain to political leadership. Topical, relevant, and more than words."The possibility that America will elect its first woman president next...

1st Indian-American governor in U.S. vows 'fresh start' for La

"BATON ROUGE | In a campaign that had the air of both inevitable and the historical, Bobby Jindal was elected governor Saturday, claiming the electoral prize that eluded him four years ago. By winning more than 50 percent of the primary vote against a field of 12 candidates,...

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