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by JJ Rusch

Loud voices get media; unfortunately, "the water crisis":http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=25 speaks in whispers. It also doesn't help that water issues are currently not as politically hi...More>
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by Ryan Henson

"War never changes." That is the tagline from Fallout 3's ad campaign, promising a game laden with post apocalyptic chaos. It's soon into the game that you understand this isn't just a tagline. Eve...More>
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by Pauline

"The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession" penned by best-selling author Paulo Coelho touches upon a subject experience by almost every other man on this planet: loss. It is a tale about a successful author wh...More>
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by Tim Williams

Sales training is an entrepreneurial necessity. If your business is struggling to succeed, sales training can provide you with the skills you need to sell. And sales are what makes your business an ec...More>
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by S B BLACK

Cropping photos for scrapbooks is an easy thing to do, once you figure out there is no exact way that it must be done. With all of the tools available for scrapbooking, it is possible to crop photos ...More>
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by Laurel Robbins

I'm a big believer in discovering as many magical off the beaten path places in a lifetime as possible. Not the mythical kind where one might encounter leprechauns or fairies, but the kind where anyt...More>
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by Joyce Good Henderson

Self-editing, or that one-hundredth rewrite of the same paragraph can only go so far in polishing your manuscript. Sometimes what you truly need is another pair of eyes, an impartial reader, a critic...More>
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by Elizabeth Armstrong-Brown

Unlike most other domesticated pets, such as cats and dogs, rabbits do not like traveling at all. Some rabbits will actually become quite angry at their owners for making them travel by going into a c...More>
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by Robert Kelly

Writing a research paper at any level of education, whether it be in high school or in college is strenuous to say the least. To begin with, the student must pick a topic that will have a reasonable ...More>
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by Benjamin Rubery

Fable is a RPG on the Xbox and has had an expanded version called The Lost Chapters a year after release date and was adapted to PC after originally being an Xbox only game.I only played the original ...More>
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by Emily Johnson

Yes, the power of the President to veto legislation is not merely helpful; it is a founding principle that goes to very heart of American democracy. Without the veto, we wouldn't have true separati...More>
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by Bob Holt

It was a beautiful winter day at the North Pole toy factory. It was 75 degrees in December due to global warming, and winds were E/NE at 5 to 10 MPH. The elves were all snuggled in their tanning beds,...More>
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by Sarah Brodie

Overcoming previous beliefs can be the most challenging roadblocks many of us have, especially in dealing with personal relationships. When you reach adulthood and have a set of beliefs about yourself...More>
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by Fulvio Max

If you are at the stage where you are confident in your decision to start a home business, you will want to take the next logical step and that is to write out a professional business plan. A business...More>
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by Naima Manal

Homeschooling keeps parents actively in the loop of their child's educational development. The advancements of our society have streamlined the delivery of services of all of its institutionalized bra...More>
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by P.L. Hubble

Can an alcoholic ever drink again socially? The answer to this is a simple and emphatic no. An alcoholic is by definition someone who is addicted to alcohol. Addicted means physiologically or psychol...More>
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by Thom Rudegeair

As a psychiatrist, I have an unusual take on the notion of "catch-up growth". The development of a child, both his or her physical growth as well as the emergence of increased social mastery, depends...More>
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