10 Debt-Laden States Quickly Becoming The Next California
Los Angelos fired the first shot. But across the state, numerous cities will try to wrangle out of derivative agreements they entered into with Wall Street.
American health-care reform dead or alive
“EVERYTHING there is to say about health care has been said and just about everyone has said it…now is the time to make a decision.” So declared President Barack Obama to an audience of doctors and nurses gathered at the White House. After a year of dithering, he is now leaping into action.
Katherine Bigelow drawn to provacative characters
She was a starving NYC artist who worked in construction to pay the rent, she climbs mountains, and she’s dating a guy 21 years her junior. Meet Kathryn Bigelow, the baddest dude in Hollywood.
twittering humor
U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed. The complaints ranged from concern about genitals being seen and the use of the devices on children, to anger over passengers not…
80 events will be taking place worldwide to celebrate women and demand an end to war!
The Butterfly Effect February 10, 2010 2:58 PM by Zainab Salbi The World Through Tom’s Shoes The butterfly effect is a metaphor for the concept that small, seemingly insignificant events—like the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings—can produce tremendous and unanticipated consequences. In this blog, Zainab Salbi, the founder of the humanitarian group Women for Women…
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INSPIRED MY NATURE
TO THE WILD Edgy and bold, the organic accessories revel in their raw and exotic splendor, inspired no doubt, by Maestres’s childhood in her native Colombia. Although she’s now based in Toronto, Maestre’s frequent travels, along with her respect of indigenous and tribal cultures, color much of her ethnic-inspired aesthetic. Maestre’s accessories showed up at…