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POPSQuick, free, online photo re-sizer Quickly changes photo dimensions or file size to optimize photos in seconds for your blog or application. Because it's so simple, I use this sooner or later every week. No registration, no software download.
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POPS Inconvenient Truths About Oil by imports, which now account for 75% of our needs. So much for the pledge to make America independent of unreliable foreign sources. What went wrong? Of natural crude, we have large reserves off the coasts of California and Florida. America also has additional reserves in the Gulf areas, from Florida to Texas. In Alaska, both onshore and offshore, we have large areas of proven reserves. In the mountain Western states, large amounts of oil are available in the shale rock formations. The conversion of coal to oil, a technology available for over 100 years, remains another untapped resource. While this 86.3 billion dollar legislation does tell the auto makers how to build cars, tell us that we can’t buy incandescent light bulbs after 2012, and demand that we continue to use 1.25 gallons of gasoline to produce 1 gallon of ethanol (subsidized by us of course); it does not result in one new gallon of gasoline, or one watt of new electricity.
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POPSOne year old pregnant child. She is not pregnant in the sense we know a pregnancy. It's that she was a twin but the other twin grew inside her and didn't devlop into an actual baby.
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POPSThe world's rarest big cat. Know as the Amur, and is found in Russia and China. I had no idea Russia had Leopards. Just shows you learn something new everyday.
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POPSHow Creepy Do You Want It? I love stories like this. :) ...because, well, that's where the action is. That's where we get to touch the void, dance on the edge of perception, realize how little we truly know of anything.
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POPSIce sheets growing, temps cooling These findings led him to conclude that the meteorological record "shows that the observed variations in air temperature in the real Arctic are in many aspects not consistent with the projected climatic changes computed by climatic models for the enhanced greenhouse effect," because, in his words, "the temperature predictions produced by numerical climate models significantly differ from those actually observed."