A man walked into a Costco in Florida and left with 100 generators, all of which are heading to The Bahamas. His receipt read $49,285.70 and most of that came from paying $450 a pop for 100 generators. Peas, beans, coffee, salt, pepper and other essentials made up the rest of his mega purchase from… via …
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By Maeve Higgins In January of 2014, a girl who had left from Cobh in Ireland (formerly known as Queenstown) journeyed across the Atlantic, and skipped rosy-cheeked off an airplane at John F. Kennedy Airport to start her new life. That was me, compensating for my indoor ghost face with too much blush in a …
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By Martha C. Nussbaum from The New York Times, The Big Ideas - Opinion Over time, the idea of “being human” has surely meant — and will continue to mean — many things. There is and has never been just one answer. But surely one thing it ought to involve today is the ability to …
A sad statement on society's abandonment of its most vulnerable. Fenced out: Los Angeles businesses find new way to keep away homeless https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/24/where-the-sidewalk-ends-businesses-keep-out-homeless-with-fences?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Human race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Each year, a smaller proportion of Latinos in the United States speaks Spanish. But for many, the language is still a fundamental marker of their identity.(Image credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) via Can You Lose A Language You Never Knew? — News : NPR
Gazing into the eyes of a tiger is like looking into nature's very soul: something so primal yet more powerful then anything imaginable.
A lifeless dog that was pulled out of an apartment fire in California was brought back to life after a firefighter performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on it earlier this week. Santa Monica firefighter Andrew Klein’s life-saving efforts were captured in photographs and videos Tuesday and have been getting attention from across the country. The small dog,… via …
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