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POPSThe Perils of Cheap Oil CONT'D: "When economic growth resumes across the globe, demand for oil will surge once again. Only this time around, given the constraints presented by declining oil fields and the current apparent freeze in investment in new oil production capacity, the supply-demand equation will likely send oil prices shooting back up, perhaps even further than before. "Which is why now is the time, more than ever, for government leadership that promotes conservation, energy efficiency, fuel economy, and increased production of renewable energy. Waiting until the economy recovers before tackling energy would be a huge, huge mistake."
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POPSTwo doctors in Saudi Arabia want to change cultural attitudes to female genital mutilation In Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali, for example, more than 80% of women have undergone FGM. Typically, the procedure is carried out by a Daya (an elderly female birth attendant) when a baby girl is a few days old, but it can be done at any time during childhood, adolescence, before marriage or during a first pregnancy. The scope of the operation – which is often carried out in non-sterile conditions using household implements – can vary considerably from removing the clitoris to cutting away all of the woman's external genitalia before stitching the wound back together leaving only a tiny hole for menstruation and urination." yes it still exists.
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POPSSignificado da palavra Mystique Este conceito de standards quando foi implementada era a primeira do seu tempo. Levou muita crítica pois quase que se podia comparar a uma ordem religiosa, uma empresa ter um credo, um 'ritual' line-up e um foco tão grande no envolvimento do empregado para transmitir e 'acreditar' nos valores da empresa era algo na altura que nunca tinha sido considerado desta forma.. quase excessiva
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POPSReferenda: Good News for Women, Bad for Gays Good on them. However, several states cast votes that they'll eventually regret. In California, Prop. 8 wins . Marriage equality is dead in California -- the same is true of measures in Arizona and Florida. In Arkansas, gays are banned from adopting or becoming foster parents . That's a shame -- literally. These are attitudes we'll all look back at with shame.
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POPSJobcreating Business Leaders Chose McCain Over Obama
CEOs support renewables but not a renewables-only policy. They support going after more fossil fuels by a 6 to 1 ratio for now. For example, Michael J. Leib, president of Hazleton Casting Co., summed up the general attitude of CEOs. "I am a strong proponent of a comprehensive energy policy, which includes drilling in all U.S. territories as well as harvesting oil from U.S. shale deposits he said. The backbone of our industrial economy is cost effective energy resources." They are in favor of international trade as evidenced by the 70.3 percent that would like to see trade restrictions loosened. Obama is viewed as particularly inexperienced when it comes to trade policy and understanding the links between free trade and growth, something President Bill Clinton knew well. McCain gets a solid B+ his highest grade on defense, and a B on foreign policy. Obama gets an almost failing D+ for each a grade that would not keep one in any school or employed very long at any business.
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POPSApparent change in women’s fidelity "Dr. Fisher notes that infidelity is common across cultures, and that in hunting and gathering societies, there is no evidence that women are any less adulterous than men. The fidelity gap may be explained more by cultural pressures than any real difference in sex drives between men and women. " more women talking about affairs centered on “electronic” contact. “I see a changing landscape in which the emphasis is less on the sex than it is on the openness and intimacy and the revelation of secrets,” Are these also signs of the revolution ?-)
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POPS"Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve ... ... and believe in God." - Rep. Robin Hayes, warming up a crowd for John McCain in North Carolina Saturday. Do you know liberals who hate Americans that work and achieve and believe in God? I don't. I do despise bigotry like this, though, and hope North Carolinians refuse to let these men and their divisive attitudes return to Washington.
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POPSNever Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death The common view of death as a great mystery usually is brushed aside as an emotionally fueled desire to believe that death isn’t the end of the road. And indeed, a prominent school of research in social psychology called terror management theory contends that afterlife beliefs, as well as less obvious beliefs, behaviors and attitudes, exist to assuage what would otherwise be crippling anxiety about the ego’s inexistence. Yet a small number of researchers, including me, are increasingly arguing that the evolution of self-consciousness has posed a different kind of problem altogether. This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start.
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POPSBlews - good/bad/left/right - News ? am not sure if these are good news or not. we, modern society just embarked on a new phase of pluralism of attitudes, open source info-verse and inter-connectivity, may soon end up in a world where ALL is narrowed to be either of blue or of red? is it some kind of "new" black & white ???
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POPSInsurance Research Here you will find some of the results from the recent research and surveys carried out through an independent UK survey company.
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