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International News Desk – At Home: PowerCost Monitor Keeps Canadians Informed – In Foreign News: Greenpeace Protests in Berlin to Stop Whaling

At Home: PowerCost Monitor keeps Canadians informed about their energy costs Canada’s Blue Line Innovation has presented a new PowerCost Monitor system that will enable households to closely watch their energy consumption; the hope is that once put under such close surveillance, energy use will go down. The main drive behind this proposal is the… Read more »

Music To Eat Lunch To – Sanctity – Road to Bloodshed

Release date: April 24, 2007 Label: Roadrunner Records Tracks: 12 Rating: 8 Road to Bloodshed is the debut album for the four-piece North Carolina metal band Sanctity, and It’s a showstopper. The band was thrilled to receive the highest praise from Trivium’s front man Matthew Heafy, who helped them get the record deal, and shortly… Read more »

Editorial – On Death and Dissent

When protestors refused to ride the buses during the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott of 1955 and 1956, they struck a blow against one of the many institutions that upheld segregation. When suffragettes disrupted Britain’s House of Commons in 1908, they targeted a body that was determined to deny them the right to vote. Protest–steadfast, prolonged,… Read more »

Education News – Google Bans Ads for Essay-Writing Services

In response to complaints that essay-writing services ?undermine the integrity of university degrees? (1), Google will ban advertisements for these services from its site. Beginning in June, the popular search engine will no longer carry ads from companies that sell made-to-order essays. Several such ads can still be found on Google, with some sites offering… Read more »

Lost & Found – Galapagos

The human consciousness is an immense body of water, an ocean of immeasurable depth. We carry billions of tide pools in the delicate bowls of our skulls. At night, if you put your ear to your lover’s head, you can hear the sound of foghorns blowing, of waves lapping at a distant shore. You can… Read more »

From Where I Sit – Changing Bite by Bite

Occasionally–okay, every chance I get–I use this space to promote reading, lifelong learning, investing in numero uno. I believe trite little phrases like ?I’m the CEO of Me Incorporated.? I believe that regardless of how we earn our living, all of us are in sales. We are all selling ourselves all the time. I’ve invested… Read more »