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…can warn us about the future – No matter what one of our candidates says about polar bears, the truth is that global warming is rapidly reducing the number of animal species.And it?s not only happening in Alaska?two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan. Polar bears are disappearing now, but these other extinctions happened 8 million years ago, when the climate shifted dramatically.Since this happened so long ago, why should we care? Paleoecologist Catherine Badgley says, “Climate is going to produce changes in ecological structure of all sorts of plants and animals around the world, now as in the past.read more

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Be happy! – Here’s a new reason to be happy: Women who have a positive outlook on life are less likely to get breast cancer.

Getting divorced, or having a loved one die, increases your risk. BBC News quotes researcher Ronit Peled as saying, “We can carefully say that experiencing more than one severe and/or moderate life event is a risk factor for breast cancer among young women. On the other hand, a general feeling of happiness and optimism can play a protective role.”
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In Whitley’s incredible new Journal, he writes: “What a week! We have seen the effective nationalization of the financial industry, and handed a bill to pay that will reach past a trillion dollars. More fantastically, our national wealth is to be spread among the horde of Wall Street bankrupts not by an impartial agency, but by contractors who will be working for a profit and will, essentially, be the same people who have gone broke, giving our money to themselves.”

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You’ll spend less if you pay cash, but in these tough times, you may not HAVE any cash, so what do you do? You barter!

A growing number of us are surviving the recession by trading?with our friends and neighbors and through websites. CNN.com quotes like Craig?s List spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best as saying, “When the economy turns unfriendly, Craigslist users become far more creative to get their everyday tasks done.”

CNN quotes Jessica Hardwick, the CEO of one barter website, as saying, “I think a few years ago it was more for fun, but we’ve seen a real shift in the last year, and especially an increase in the last few months, where I think people are really doing it to get by.”

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