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OIL SPILL: a crisis no longer waiting to happen

April 30, 2010

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its resulting crisis for the residents of the Gulf Coast is a wake-up call to those pressuring for off-shore drilling.

If a similar crisis were to be occurring with a nuclear power plant there would be no excuses for a permanent moratorium on the building (and [...]

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BATHYMETRY: plumbing the depths to get to the bottom

February 13, 2010

I stumbled onto this word recently and found it interesting. The idea of mapping the bottom of a lake the size of one of the Great Lakes or the bottom of the ocean caught my imagination, so I investigated it further. There is amazing technology available these days to do this with great accuracy.
My curiosity [...]

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KNEECAP: to undermine a person or injure a person's reputation in a particularly vicious manner. (www.WordSpy.com)

November 24, 2009

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A new word usually emerges out of an attempt to describe an action or activity which is prominent in the minds of the public. Keyboarding, for instance, has replaced typing in our vocabulary as the use of computers has replaced the use of typewriters for the most part.
To kneecap is one of those new [...]

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ENTITLEMENT: a right to benefits that is granted, especially by law or contract. (Dictionary.com)

November 15, 2009

If you start reading this expecting the topic to be Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or some other form of health or welfare benefits, you may be disappointed. While those are legitimate topics for another posting, they are not the topics about which I am concerned today. I want to explore the interplay between [...]

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