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"Well-rounded" is probably the best way to describe me. And I'm not talking physique here. I have done almost everything you can think of, from (in no particular order) driving taxis to gardening to washing windows to route sales to material handling to electronic

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Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 What do Republicans stand for?: 2 of 16
George Washington goes down in history as the only independent president of the United States. Most of America's founding fathers were opposed to political parties. In fact, after signing the Declaration of Independence, its principal author Thomas Jefferson remarked that the one thing he feared most was the tyranny of a two-... More..
Sciences > Medical Technology Living to 100 and beyond: 1 of 8
There is no denying that in a civilized society with a sensible and coherent health care strategy we find that people are living longer and longer over time. It follows then that people living in the most technologically and socially advanced nations will have the greatest longevity and people living in nations with a develop... More..
Health & Fitness > Asthma Symptoms and treatment of asthma: 2 of 15
I first developed breathing problems in 1987 as the result of a number of contributing factors. I had just been relieved from my job where the environment was replete with different paints, paint thinners and toxic compounds. At that time I had a housekeeping room in a rooming house. I shared the kitchen and the bathroom with... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center What role should the US play in reducing the production of illicit drugs-such as cocaine and heroin-in places like Bolivia and Afghanistan?: 6 of 44
The 2005 report of the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stated that the global retail trade in illicit drugs for the year 2003 was estimated to constitute 0.9 percent of the world gross domestic product (GDP) for that year. At the wholesale level, the illegal drug trade was equal to 1.3 percent of all global ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Will ordinary Muslims rejection of extremists hasten the end of terrorism?: 3 of 22
The problem of terrorism is that it is not focused on a single cause. One might say that the root cause of insurgency and militancy among civilian Muslims is the result of their general lack of initiative to develop a common direction to contribute economically and socially to their respective nations and that this is caused ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Artists & Artwork Biography: Leonardo da Vinci: 2 of 14
Will the real Leonardo da Vinci please stand up?After studying the Time Life Library of Art's "The World of Leonardo, 1452 - 1519" and being somewhat surprised by the details of his life and his character I felt compelled to do some research into the artist's life and times. That his was a special incursion into history can b... More..
Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) Inspiring quotes: 9 of 60
We live in a world of contradictions. At times it is a reality check which stirs our creative juices for reasons not from the obvious but from the unexpected. There is not a great man who has ever lived who has not inspired us with at least one surprising remark. In the words of one of the smartest science fiction writers of ... More..
Entertainment > Celebrity Gossip & News Celebrity commentary on the character of Paris Hilton: 3 of 16
I have the advantage by not being an American in being able to rationalize the media hyperbola of events surrounding the Paris Hilton phenomenon of being "famous for being famous" by being separated from another phenomenon, that of the expectation of opinion. I believe what I choose to believe. I am also an intelligent and an... More..
Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts Thoughts on scientology: 4 of 21
Scientology: cult or religion - you decideAs with any well known religion, Scientology too has a basic belief structure which borders on legend and on which lie the foundations for the establishment of its tenets and its precepts. The following is extracted from Janet Reitman's outstanding Rolling Stone Magazine article of Fe... More..
Sciences > Physics The uses of particles accelerators: 1 of 5
The first thought that people usually have when the subject of the usefulness of particle accelerators comes up in conversation is that they are really only used in the field of nuclear particle research. Few people realize that there are some very practical commonplace applications of nuclear particle accelerators.Perhaps th... More..