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Why do the poor drop out of college?
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One Light Bulb: $47.00
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Ugly Purse, $52,500. . .and, as Cartman would say, ‘You Can’t Have It!’
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What Gives in South Carolina?
I’m writing this from the new library in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. It’s a big, open all glass building that I wouldn’t want to be…
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Hands Off the Carbon Credit Business!
A well-reported front page story in today’s Washington Post shows that the indulgence–oops, I mean Carbon Credit Offset industry–doesn’t always work as advertised. Many…
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Climate Change and Gardening. . . What the !@#$@!@#?
This weekend many smaller newspapers likely carried this AP story about climate change and gardening as a prominent Sunday feature. One little problem: despite…