Word: collectivities
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...bloggers are having trouble getting their way in Congress, they're showing they have some clout in a political battle in Connecticut. Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic Vice Presidential nominee who is in the midst of a difficult primary challenge, announced this week he will collect signatures to run as an independent in case he loses in the Aug. 8 primary to challenger Ned Lamont. Polls suggest Lieberman has strong support among independents and Republicans, and Lieberman is worried that he will lose a primary vote that may well be dominated by liberal activists who are angry...
...face it--Uncle Sam is broke. The gap between the U.S. government's future expenses and tax receipts is $63.3 trillion. No surprise. The nation has 77 million retiring baby boomers on track to collect well above $30,000 a year--the average amount we're paying today's elderly--in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. If you're planning for a cushy retirement, forget it. Get ready for much higher taxes, lower benefits and inflation...
...write papers for political indoctrination classes. That took about 30 minutes a day. For the rest of his remaining 18 months at the prison, Kurkov penned children's books. Writerly recognition took many years. Beginning in 1980, he mailed out 1,000 manuscripts, only to collect 500 refusals. "The rest got lost in the mail," he says. However, persistence paid off. In 1988, the London-based writers' association International pen accepted Kurkov as a member on the strength of his unpublished manuscripts. Then, in 1999, Death and the Penguin was picked up by a Swiss publisher, and began its slow...
Roosevelt began to collect animal specimens, including fireflies and squirrels. He filled his notebooks with drawings and life histories of animals and insects, such as the common black ant, and then read Darwin and Huxley, who helped him ponder how Homo sapiens coexisted with the so-called lesser creatures. When the American Museum of Natural History unpacked 2,200 mounted creatures from the collection of the Verreaux brothers, French naturalists, the unabashed young Theodore donated his own mounted menagerie--a bat and 12 mice...
...right. Thank you for awakening us. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England Consumers vs. Climate Change I was pleased to see Jim Ledbetter's essay [June 5] pointing out that individuals need help to slow global warming. I could put solar panels on my house, buy a hybrid car, collect and use rainwater and do a host of other things to curb my contribution to global warming, but the cost to do so is way beyond what I can afford. I am more than happy to do my bit, but someone has to help make it possible for me. Ron Kernahan...