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On Walrus Island in 1874 there were around five hundred bulls in residence. Since then they greatly diminished in numbers, and would eventually disappear entirely. Their skin is a mottled yellowish-brown, with very short, rouqh bristles scattered over it. It is wrinkled into folds all about the neck and shoulders. The animal’s posteriors are disproportionately small as compared with the anterior half of the body. The males exceed the females in size and reach a ton or more in weight. The tusks of the female are long and slender and are usually curved inward so that the points nearly touch. The tusks of the males are shorter and stouter, with the ends several inches apart. The largest pair of tusks I ever saw weighed 16 pounds.

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If, at some future veterans’ convention, the uniformed weathermen of World War II get to swap experiences, their tales easily can hold their own with hair-raisers from any other branch of the service. The “Mets”, as they were called, can jingle plenty of medals, and, as for variety-few other outfits will be able to match the meteorologists. They traveled by snow tractor and dog team to Greenland’s frigid ice cap, and they carried their own equipment through torrid jungles of the South Pacific. They parachuted into the Balkans ahead of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. They jumped with the airborne spearheads on D-day in Normandy. They flew in one-man fighters ahead of regular bombing formations, and they rode in B-29s over Tokyo. Weather is a vitally important factor in modern warfare.

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Environmental awareness is no longer the preserve of the ardent activist: it is something which is gaining momentum in terms of popularity and importance. With widespread concerns with regard to the extent to which we abuse the planet and increased endeavours to endorse sustainable products and reduce carbon emissions; an environmental corporate conscience is now nothing short of imperative. There a great deal of ways in which a company can make steps to neutralise their carbon emissions and generally improve their energy efficiency and eco-sustainability. One of the simplest and least disruptive or costly means of bringing an organisation up to date in terms of environmental awareness is a simple switch to sustainable office supplies. Recycled paper has been around for a number of years and is even more important than ever. The rainforests have suffered greatly over the decades in order to provide the vast quantity of timber we utilise for all manner of applications: paper need not increase this burden.

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In April 1995, a young Chinese chemistry student at Beijing University lay dying in a Beijing hospital. Although her doctors had performed numerous tests, they could not discover what was killing her. In desperation, a student friend posted an SOS describing her symptoms to several medical bulletin boards and mailing lists o. n the Internet. Around the world, doctors who regularly checked these electronic bulletin boards and lists responded immediately.

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I just lost a friend because he disagreed with my point of view on these five high school students who were booted from school for wearing American flags on “Cinco de Mayo.” And it’s not that I disagreed with him, really. I said that I thought it was a mistake for the school to boot these five numbskulls for acting like little racist, teabagging idiots. If they want to wear the American flag on a t-shirt (although a TRUE patriot KNOWS that wearing the flag as an article of clothing is inappropriate), unless these little teabaggers were in violation of a school rule, then they should have been left alone.

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Just for fun, let’s assume a really fanciful, utterly unimaginable set of circumstances – a real screwball fantasy:

Let’s say that a group of religion-drunk psychopaths with dreams of paradise flew a pair of commercial aircraft full of screaming passengers into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on, say, September 11th, 2001. Let’s suppose they kill, oh, a couple thousand people.

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The principle headline in the Outlook section of this Sunday’s Washington Post read: “The New Culture War”, the subheading continued: “On one side, the forces of free enterprise. On the other, an expanding and paternalistic government. It’s time to choose.” The author, Arthur C. Brooks, argues that a liberal minority now in power, supported by perhaps 30 percent of the population, are actively seeking to remake America in the image of a European-style social state. The culture war is the clash of the traditional, uniquely American free enterprise legacy system with the progressive, egalitarian, highly regulated, state managed society. These ends, Brooks declares, are mutually exclusive. We now stand at a crossroads of history. We must choose a course.

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Remember back to high school algebra, how we wondered what use the formulas and all that work would be in real life. Those quadratic equations were, in a word, intimidating. We challenged ourselves, maneuvered and manipulated, stewed and considered, reduced and pureed, until finally we could determine “x” or at least leave the equation of unknown variables in its simplest form. Have you used the equations much since then?

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LONDON, May 15 (Xinhua) — Economists have warned of Britain’s large sovereign debt and suggested that the new government make huge cuts and raise taxes to tackle the nation’s record deficit.

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