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POPSCandy light bulbs bring holiday cheer to dollar store shoppers
Nearly every person in the store looked like they just came from the Jerry Springer audience. There were a lot of old sweatshirts with cliche sayings or Looney Tunes characters on them, bottle blondes who needed to touch up their roots, men who looked like Todd from Beavis and Butt-head loading up on Christmas gifts for their families, and many people who looked like they only came in there to hang out because they had nowhere else to go. As we passed one suspicious looking man, my friend remarked, “Everyone in here looks like they’ve done time.” As if by some scripted coincidence, seconds later, a woman in the next isle remarked loudly, “Well, I’m finally allowed to see my kids again, so...” before trailing off. We went up and down each isle, looking for the one item that would perfectly encapsulate the experience, the Holy Grail of garbage, until we saw..... candy light bulbs! Like a prop from a comedy skit that somehow migrated into
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POPSWe are what we do! Ok... now that you have clipped to your hearts content, had a cuppa joe, get busy doing something about what peeves you, celebrate your life, I dunno.... but go here and make a change one person at a time.... I will!
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POPSNew clothes for your blog Do you agree that the quality of clothes you wear has direct relation to the degree of impression that you create in someone's mind. Its a kind of ratings effect. Likewise when someone lands on one of your blogs pages, the first thing that his mind will register are the images and colors that your site present to him. If you have a great post but your blog theme has registered a negative impact on the visitors mind he is not likely to remember your blog. He may not bookmark it. Your blog fades from his memory and you have lost a potential long time client. So what should I do about it, you ask? To put it simply, get some new clothes for your blog. A great mind in shabby clothes will not create a lasting impression. Get some great looking template for your blog. Dress it up and watch as you begin to retain those drifters from the WWW.
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POPSProposed Ban on Genetically Modified Corn in Europe In the decisions, the environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, contends that the genetically modified corn, or maize could affect certain butterfly species, specifically the monarch, and other beneficial insects. For instance, research this year indicates that larvae of the monarch butterfly exposed to the genetically modified corn “behave differently than other larvae.” In the decision concerning the corn seeds produced by Dow and Pioneer, Mr. Dimas calls “potential damage on the environment irreversible.” In the decision on Syngenta’s corn, he says that “the level of risk generated by the cultivation of this product for the environment is unacceptable.”
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POPSBangladeshi writer leaves Jaipur Indian intelligence officials say Ms Nasreen was flown out of Calcutta in a special plane to Delhi from where she was taken to Jaipur in the western state of Rajasthan. She spent Thursday night at a hotel in Jaipur under heavy security, the police said. Early on Friday, Ms Nasreen moved out of the hotel and sped away with a police convoy towards the main road linking Jaipur with Delhi, the BBC's Narayan Bareth in Jaipur says. Taslima Nasreen's Indian visa is valid until March 2008. Wednesday's trouble in Calcutta began after the predominantly Muslim All-India Minority Forum called for blockades on major roads in the city. The group said Ms Nasreen had "seriously hurt Muslim sentiments". Many Muslims say her writing ridicules Islam. The army was called out and a night curfew imposed. The All-India Minority Forum says Taslima Nasreen's Indian visa should be revoked and she should be forced to leave the country. In August this year, she was attacked in the souther
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POPSShootings threaten black rhino project Efforts to save the black rhino from extinction have been dealt a blow by the killing of three adults who were part of a breeding programme in Zimbabwe. The apparently gratuitous act has stopped the programme in its tracks, writes the BBC's John Kay.
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POPS Scientists Research Disappearance Of Bumblebees Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate any this year He fears that the species — Franklin's bumblebee — has gone extinct before anyone could even propose it for the endangered species list. To make matters worse, two other bumblebee species — one on the East coast, one on the West — have gone from common to rare. Honey Bee Die-Off-Alarm Beekeepers http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070205144500
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