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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 > Terrorism The role of the CIA in the war on terrorism: 2 of 5
While for the most part the CIA has focused mainly on strategic intelligence gathering, it is also responsible for conducting clandestine operations on the advice of the President. These have not always been productive, and in some cases have proved to be counter-productive.After the Chinese invaded Tibet in their campaign of... More..
Relationships & Family > Love & Lust Soul mates: Do they really exist?: 68 of 169
Ahh..! The soul mate. In the world of the romantic, they certainly do exist - that one just right person. That one person who stirs in the sentimental heart the perfect yearning of desire for togetherness and that inescapable impulse to say, "hey, don't I know you from someplace?" the first time they meet, thinking full well ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Why has international intervention to stop the fighting in Darfur failed, and what policy alternatives might succeed?: 15 of 36
On December 31, 2007, a United Nations peacekeeping force officially aligned with an inadequate African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan to form the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID). It is intended to address the problems of continued Arab-African conflict and instability in war-torn Sudan.The opera... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues Spirit, Soul and Body: 6 of 14
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was in his time the foremost student of the mind. The practice of psychiatry owes much to this thinker for it utilizes the techniques which he developed to extract the essential knowledge of a patients' own condition from out of the deeper unconscious data base of memory engrams associated with their... More..
Sciences > Astronomy Why the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) may not be a good idea: 3 of 7
Let it not go unsaid that I firmly believe that life in the Universe is the rule rather than the exception. I propose a conservative ratio of one habitable world on which life is evolving for every one hundred suns in the galaxy. That means that there is the potential for life around a billion suns in this galaxy alone and th... More..
Arts & Humanities > Asian History History of the Japanese kimono: 3 of 7
The Kimono is ubiquitous in Japanese history, culture, and tradition. To the Japanese it means simply "thing worn" or "clothing". It is the only garment worn throughout history by the people of Japan for as long as most of the rest of the world has known them. The predecessor to the present day Kimono is the "ko-sode", meanin... More..
Sciences > Physics How airplanes generate lift: 3 of 7
It should be no mystery to the average high school student today just how airplanes get off the ground and stay that way. When we were kids we thought that it was the air pushing under the wings that made the airplane stay in the air and that by tilting the flaps down we would cause the airplane to lurch forward and downward ... More..
Sciences > Psychology Understanding the state of consciousness: 4 of 9
In the Scientific American article of October, 2007 titled How Does Consciousness Happen? neuroscientists Christof Koch and Susan Greenfield discuss independent theories on the nature of consciousness. The synopsis introducing the article on the content pages of that month's issue amounts to a compelling definition of conscio... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Software & Utilities Tips to diagnose and fix a slow running computer: 7 of 14
This article assumes that the reader has a limited budget to work with and if solutions to the problem of a slow PC can be had for free than that would of course be the preferable option. As far as I'm concerned, it is anyway and I've had some considerable success enhancing the performance of my own computers over the years a... More..
Sciences > Anthropology (Other) Controversial topics in anthropology in 2008: 3 of 6
Useful Mating Habits over TimeAccording to a report published in the March 19, 2008 edition of New Scientist online statistics show that monogamous males have the most children if they marry women younger than themselves. Optimal age differences were found to be about five years. Let it not go unsaid however that the age of t... More..