How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American Middle Class

Source: The Atlantic

Here's the game plan: Hire over here, sell over there. More companies are creating jobs by taking advantage of rising global wealth -- and we should be cheering them on. Last week, 41 American companies received awards at a little-noticed White H ...
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The garden inspired by a war zone

Source: BBC News

25 May 2012 Last updated at 07:13 ET By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service Not many show gardens have a watchtower and barbed wire. But to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean war (1950-53), its tensions and aftermath have been evoked in the unlike ...
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Croydon Advertiser published Jubilee fun strikes Gold

Source: This Is Croydon Today

I n time for Jubilee Celebrations the award-winning Zippos circus is bringing to Croydon its 2012 family production entitled Gold. The new show welcomes back equestrian princess Yasmine Smart, acknowledged as the First Lady of Circus. Her personalit ...
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Comment on Report: Dodgers interested in Winter Classic by Wilmonde

Source: LA Kings Insider

Lets just get rid of Bettman. @Sandy, That’s like saying, “Just get rid of evil” …easier said than done. Why don’t you just cure cancer while you’re at it? Oh, wait, same thing. Anyone else remember that it was cold ...
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Police Blotter: Man charged with stealing $5 baseball cap from Dixie Highway store

Source: Palm Beach Post

A customer at the drive-through of a restaurant in the 4200 block of 45th Street attempted to pay for her order with a $100 bill. The store manager checked the bill with a counterfeit detection pen and l ...
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Burning for You

Source: AdWeek

Even if you’ve never smoked a cigarette, you know that...sound. It happens when the stainless steel lid pops open under the pressure of the cam spring—a crisp, metal-on-metal “click” that precedes the snap of the flint wheel. This is the sound o ...
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Tuck: How GM Otis Smith Failed The Orlando Magic

Source: ESPN Florida

Otis Smith came on board as Magic general manager in 2005. During his tenure he made some great moves that extended his shelf-life. Most notable to his success was as an assistant general manager the year before in convincing John W ...
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Trace Pickering wrote a new blog post: Standards-Based Grading/Classroom Practitioner "Meet-Up" - June 7th 12 to 4!

Source: The Gazette

As a follow up to our Co-Creators Camp and our efforts to continue to build community conversation and action around education as a part of www.iowatransformed.com, we’re hosting a “meet-up” on June 7th from 12 to 4. Here are the details: Purpose: to wel ...
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Source: Vowles The Green

The independent views of a long time Green campaigner, Glenn Vowles, in Knowle, Bristol, UK. Thoughts about our real wealth - the natural world, the source of our resources and the basis of our lives - and how it can and should be sustained for gene ...
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