December 2011
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WatchBrene Brown: The power of vulnerability
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Air Force Dumped Remains Of 274 Troops In Virginia... →
This week, after The Post pressed for information contained in the Dover mortuary’s electronic database, the Air Force produced a tally based on those records. It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008.
An additional group of 1,762 unidentified remains were collected from the battlefield and disposed...
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Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators →
youmightfindyourself:
By Nick Hanauer Bloomberg, Nov 30, 2011
It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop.
Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for example, people were sure that the sun...
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Their camps in tatters, Wall Street demonstrators... →
The Occupy movement is beginning to follow a familiar pattern, said Todd Gitlin, a sociologist at Columbia University and an authority on social movements. He noted that the 1960s anti-war movement grew gradually for years until bursting onto the world stage during the election year of 1968. He predicted big rallies around the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., and the...
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