When it comes to choosing flooring for your home, laminate provides several benefits over hardwood. If you plan on installing the floor yourself, you will find that laminate is much less difficult to put in. It is also a more eco-friendly choice, as it does not require any trees to be cut down. Price Considerations [...]
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The Implied Piper: How Many Jobs Will Keystone XL Really Create?
Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Kenneth Story.
A slow-moving economy, little to no jobs growth and a Congress crippled by an inability to find common ground has been a dark wind blowing through the past 18 months. Keystone XL is a project that divides Americans along those very lines. The Keystone Project refers to a 1,700-mile pipeline that would carry crude oil [...]
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Everyone knows what a hermit crab is. You probably had them in your elementary school classroom as a child. You may even have had one in your own home, where you decided to get all artistic and paint the shell to provide your decapod crustacean with the coolest shell that you could possibly dream up. [...]
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In recent years, the word green is meaning much more than a color. It has taken on a much more revolutionized meaning and is an action that individuals do to make the planet a cleaner and safer place to live. The words green and sustainable go hand-in-hand as both wordsdescribes living environmentally healthy. New and [...]
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We’ve all seen the Black Friday rush and the news reports of skyrocketing Cyber Monday sales and felt the pressure to spend, spend, spend over the holidays. But how do these numbers really add up? In our brand new infographic, find out when people shop for the holidays, where they spend their money, and perhaps [...]
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The New Year is just around the corner, that time of year when meaningless promises are made in the form of resolutions, only to be broken within a month of two. Instead of being so short-sighted in your intentions, why not think more long-term? Here are 10 things that simply must change in the next [...]
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Once upon a time, the wealthy ate meat and refined foods, while the poor subsisted on a mostly plant-based diet and coarse breads. How the times have changed since then! Now, low-income families search for coupons to buy bags of frozen chicken nuggets and loaves of white bread, while the wealthy take advantage of local [...]
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Will The Medical System in America Crash? Not If We Pay Our Bills
Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by admin.
What will happen if you get sick and need immediate medical attention? Will the hospital still take you even if you don’t have health insurance? That is two questions that frequent the mind of uninsured Americans daily. With more people unemployed than in the past years, America is becoming a scary place to live. But [...]
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I was watching directv deals and a show about the Costa Rican jungles came on. I was really interested to watch it because my husband and I had just gotten back from the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. We stayed at a great Eco Lodge called Lapa Rios. It was pretty difficult to get to the resort. [...]
