Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the [...]

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Blog Action Day
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. In 2007 the issue is the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.
So [...]

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I keep seeing these high record notices scattered up and down the east coast.
New York, New York (10001) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground
Record high temperature set at Kennedy…a record high temperature of 90 degrees was set at Kennedy today.
This breaks the old record of 75 set in 1990. This also breaks the
record [...]

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It looks like it’s time to keep an eye on the tropics if you live in this part of the world. Hurricane Dean has reached category 4 and he’s still strengthening. He is prognosticated anywhere from the Bay of Campeche in Mexico to the mouth of the Mississippi, due to come ashore somewhere [...]

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