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How to Obtain Real Wealth, Financially Speaking

as you have most of your life. But if you could turn that dream into reality, would you take the inspired action required to achieve it? Most people complain that most of those who are rich were born with silver spoons in their...

Neodesha, Kan., has new hope for a cleaner future

NEODESHA, Kan. | The first commercial oil well west of the Mississippi River was drilled here 116 years ago. Just under this town of 2,800 in southeastern Kansas is a sea of toxic oil that has, from time to time, gurgled to the...

History Isn't About to Repeat Itself

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The Five Horsemen of Environmental Change

Just as railroads fundamentally changed the country and the world in the 19th century, five even more power technologies are already among us, making it all the more imperative that we examine them from their potential...

Restoring Economic Sanity

Not that long ago, a dollar was worth a half-gallon of gasoline. Just a few days ago, a dollar was worth a little less than one-quarter-gallon of gasoline. When the value of the dollar is expressed this way, the question is did...

Anchorage disabilities advocate dies at 65

Sep 28, 2008

Published: September 28th, 2008 12:14 AM Last Modified: September 28th, 2008 12:50 AM Anchorage resident Joseph H. Laird, 65, died Sept. 24, 2008, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. "Joseph, Alaska resident and local...

Russia Resurgent

Gary Sudborough 27.09.2008 19:04 Themen: Militarismus A history of US intervention in Russia and the resurgence of Russia. After the French Revolution of 1789, most of the other monarchies in Europe immediately invaded...

Walking away with millions is not right

Walking away with millions is not right The chiefs of failed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are about to walk away with $24 million dollars, folks, and that ain’t right. Henry Huddleston Rogers, the No. 2 man at Standard Oil,...

9 Great Ways to Begin a Novel

Hook a Reader with Techniques from Great Writers The first sentence and beginning paragraphs of a novel are essential to capturing an agent or editor and, ultimately, the reader. Example: When Archbishop Richard Rushman,...

Hunting for oil -- and profit

BY CARL HARTMAN • ASSOCIATED PRESS • September 21, 2008 In 1908, a retired Civil War naval officer launched the first big American attempt to lock in a share of Iraq's oil. From the Turkish sultan whose empire spanned...

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