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POPSRocket Racing League The Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a futuristic sports league combining the exhilaration of racing with the power of rocket engines
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POPSPullman on Religion INTRO; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy constitutes one of the finest reading experiences for children I’ve ever seen. I read them as an adult, on the advice of a literary colleague, and fell under their spell immediately. They are fantasy books, for sure, but with a strong rational and anti-authority philosophy. And although I don’t think of them as purely anti-religious, if your religion is one with an authoritarian streak then … Interesting character.
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POPSInspiration in trying times As Wall Street continues to get slammed today, this is worth a read. Our financial system may be shaken but entrepreneurs are continuing to invent and change the game of nearly every imaginable industry. All of the businesses the WSJ highlights are exciting ones.
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POPSthings to remember on Dysfunctional Families Day There are a plenitude of days for celebrating your parents and getting together with your family. There aren’t a lot of days when you can admit that your parents actually drove you completely bats, or that you’d rather learn autotrepanning with a Black and Decker than sit down with the people who made your first 18 years a misery. And some people need that, because that’s the truth, and pretending otherwise is poison to the soul. Today is the autumnal equinox. Things are in balance, but shifting toward the darkness. What better day to use for this purpose? (For Southern Hemisphere readers, today is yet another day when your experience is overridden by the thoughtless majority, which is an equally valid reason.) Now, I’m not really qualified to discuss this matter, because, well, I kinda like my family…So let me yield the floor to those whose day this really is. What are you doing today, to either live with your past or transcend it?
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POPSRandy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
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POPSphotos from the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing Click through for captions & explanations of the photos. I love how scarred & battered their chair wheels are in the photo of the wheelchair rugby players. It seems that rugby is rugby, regardless of how you play it. I have a feeling that their street wheelchairs have the classic bumper sticker: "GIVE BLOOD: PLAY RUGBY". :-)
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POPSLearning from Dr. King "...And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From the sermon "But, If Not" delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on November 5, 1967.
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