Is Divorce Morally Acceptable?
The Pew Research Center posed the question to over 40,000 people in 40 countries. A sampling of how many said no. Ghana – 80% Pakistan – 73% U.S. – 22% Spain – 4%
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Alexander Pope Quote – Generous
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” – Alexander Pope
Read moreBungling British Burglar
A bungling British burglar who volunteered to be fitted with a police GPS tracker was arrested after he carried out a string of burglaries while wearing the device. Nicholas Broadley, 33, wore the tracker as part of a program to help career criminals go straight. But when police checked his movements, they discovered that he’d been at the scene of three […]
Read moreKiller whales under threat of extinction from toxic ocean chemicals
At least half of the world’s killer whales will become extinct because of toxic waste in the oceans within the next century according to researchers. Some areas despite efforts to control the pollutants of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) still remain at high levels. Research scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are saying that if we don’t bring down the […]
Read moreWarmer seas speed up Antarctic ice melt
European researchers have once again warned that the thinning of the Antarctic ice shelf means that the flow of glaciers on the frozen continent could accelerate, with a consequent rise in sea levels. They examine, in two separate studies, the increasingly precarious state of some of the ice shelf. When the shelf, consisting of ice floating on the ocean, melts, […]
Read morePoem – Crystal Blue (By Melissa R. Mendelson)
Crystal Blue The rain pounded the pavement as if it were furious over the lonely hearts that hid in their rooms with nobody to wipe away their tears or make them smile, but the rain did share their pain and splattered kisses upon windows of their homes to console them because the rain could see the love they hid […]
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R. Buckminster Fuller Quote – The Thought Is Staggering
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
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Douglas Adams quote – This planet has a problem
“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t […]
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