We've all heard about the concept of global warming. Celebrities make commercials and public announcements about it. Nature and environmental groups try to educate the public about it. Even governments attend international summits to discuss it. But what, exactly, is global warming, and how does it affect us?
Is the concept of a North American Union coming to our continent?
As the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics draw to a close, China is as much in the spotlight as ever.
Cell phones are everywhere, most of us, myself included, have one. Why then do so many people fail to observe even the basics of common sense when using them?
In July of 2001 the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, China. Even though the People’s Republic of China is ecstatic to be hosting the country’s first Olympic Games, criticism of the Olympic Committee’s choice has been growing during the last seven years
Now that the primary nominations are in the bag, the true battle for the White House has begun.
Have you ever taken the advice of those self proclaimed TV experts on how to best organize, decorate or live your life? Her is one person's example of how not to let others complicate the life that YOU like.
The young woman behind the counter had obviously never met my mother. I approached the counter, purchase in hand, said “hello”, and handed my goods to her to ring in. There was no acknowledgement of my greeting, let alone of me. She made no eye contact, her attention glued to the cell phone growing out of her left hand. I may as well have been invisible. She rang in my purchase with her right hand and declared to the Lays potato chips poster on the wall “$4.24”. Not “that’ll be four dollars and 24 cents please.” No, just “$4.24”.
We’ve all met them. That insidious couple that always seems to be standing your way whenever something bright or new comes along. They nag, they pester, they sink their sharp teeth in and overall, they do more to stand in the way of expanding your horizons than possibly anyone or anything else. I’m talking about the Yabuts, happily married to Ifonlys.
