These are a few of some 45 hatchlings from the Linton Zoological Gardens in the UK. They are African Sulcata Giant Tortoises, also knowns as Spurred Tortoises — the third largest tortoise in the world, second only to the Galapagos and the Aldabra Tortoises.
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Robert Reich: The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
It’s time for Wall Street to fall. I don’t want to work in it.
Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making the public more distrustful than ever.
The Street’s biggest lobbying groups have just filed a lawsuit against the…
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163 Sharing Poetry: Robert Frost, "Reluctance"
Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
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153 Nature: Before he died, Joaquin Luna put on his best suit, white shirt and...
Before he died, Joaquin Luna put on his best suit, white shirt and black skinny tie, the same outfit he wore every Sunday without fail to the Pan de Vida church in his home town of Mission, Texas. As his brother put it: “He dressed himself to go to God.”
Then he shot himself in the shower…
(Source: Guardian, via rorschachx)
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111 Robert Reich: The Empty Bully Pulpit
How did we get into this mess?
I thought I’d seen Washington at its worst. I was there just after Watergate. I was there when Jimmy Carter imploded. I was there during the government shut-down of 1995.
But I hadn’t seen the worst. This is the worst.
How can it be that with over 9 percent…
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JAZZ UP THE WORBS
After editing to an entire document of bad spelling and punctuation errors (and then creating a trifold), this is the response I received from my client:
Cuppla thing
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