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Have you ever read the book 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley?
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It has been a hoot these last days to watch the excitement in Wisconsin at the announcement of a new tourism slogan: live like you mean it. There's been a lot of chatter in cyberspace about how this phrase is or isn't a fit for Wisconsin. The opinions, as one writer noted, are split between dislike and hate. What's the fuss? I personally think if you can and do find meaning by wearing cheese on your head then it is possible to get a grip on how to live like you mean it! So here is my coaching challenge for my new friends up north.
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In mid-2008, we might be facing an economic recession in global proportions. There are important factors that caused this economic slowdown. These include the high oil prices which will lead to high prices of food.
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The United States military is the strongest and most disciplined military in the world. The troops in the U.S. military have fought and died for many of the freedoms that we enjoy today. Without our troops we would not have independence at all, because they rose up against the tyrannical reign of the British government to fight for our freedom.
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The latest research estimates that the average household uses around fifty thousand litres of water in any one year for drinking and bathing. This amount of water, to give an idea of scale is the amount needed to fill a private swimming pool, to add more realism to this sum, if a person was to buy this water in bottles, the annual cost would be around twenty thousand pounds.
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The threat of recession and economic disaster facing many areas of business, its effect on employment and income levels, personal debt and security of homes is solvable. If the root cause is not addressed then the financial crisis can only deepen causing financial misery throughout both the developed world and emerging nations.
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September 11, 2001 is the day one when of the most famous bastions of "capitalist might", the World Trade Center, fell down like a ton of bricks from a massive terrorist attack. Thousands of people were dead in a matter of minutes, and the bustling financial district where once stood the famous twin towers turned instantly into a morbid graveyard of rubble called the Ground Zero.
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An 18-year-old man sustained serious injuries in a boating accident in Mission Bay on Monday.
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Two weeks before President Elect Obama officially launched his bid for presidency in full-scale earnest; he finally got around to paying the parking tickets he'd accrued in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts during his years of attendance at Harvard Law School. They were seventeen in number, which he received between the years 1988 and 1991, according to Cambridge's Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department. Of the seventeen, Obama only bothered to pay two of them during his time as a student, and he paid both of the two late.
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This Friday saw the sentence of O.J.Simpson for up to 33 years in prison by a Las Vegas judge. He was convicted on charges of armed robbery of sports memorabilia as Simpson stormed into a Las Vegas hotel room on September 13, 2007. However before the sentence could be pronounced, the football Hall of Famer who is 61 year old, apologized for his deeds and described the action as a mistake which was not intended to harm anyone. He further tried to justify his actions by describing it as a foolish act. But his plea for compassion was rejected by the judge as the judge described the act as an act which involved much more than stupidity.
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