Year: 2006
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Things you didn’t know you didn’t know
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.A snail can sleep for three years.All polar bears are left handed.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.Babies are born without knee caps. They…
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Television
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx
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A woman’s random thoughts
If you love something, set it free…If it comes back, it will always be yours…If it doesn’t come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn’t appear to realize that you…
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El Ascencion
My friend Duane McDowell, who frequently sends things for my blog was just in Venezuela on vacation and took the following picture of a Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata) hummingbird in the garden of Posada La Brevera in Chorotal, Merida that he was particuarly happy with. Hope you enjoy it too.
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Ten questions for James Baker
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:04:13 -0500From: “Jonathan Lord” <jdl@ieee.org>To: letters@time.comSubject: Ten questions for James BakerDear Editor:Talk about arrogant; since when does one particular party, “own all three branches of government”? It seems to me that the American people “own” the government. An ideology can influence the policies of the government, but I don’t recognize…
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Not today
One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the…