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Fact & Fantasy 10 This list will appear at the head of every Fact and Fantasy till no
longer applicable. It is a list of USA Bombings since World
War II. It has been compiled by the historian William Blum:
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -Catherine Aird Name of a shop: LARGER THAN LIFE: SIZES 14-26 "I had a sense that unless I was totally thin my friends would tease me or I wouldn't get a girlfriend", said Martin, a Peruvian boy of 18. He was committed to the hospital three months ago when he feared swallowing because he believed "my saliva had too many calories".
OXYMORONS: act naturally; almost exactly; ; peace force; government
organization; small crowd; tight slacks; sanitary landfill; exact estimate;
the living dead; sweet sorrow; 12-ounce pound cake; computer security;
silent scream; Microsoft Works.
More than 30% of America's personal computers are left running overnight and on the weekend, according the U.S. Department of Energy. By turning them off, notes the magazine mother jones (July/August issue, 2001), we could shut down eight large power plants and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 7 million tons a year. The Saturn Five space shuttle (or is it a rocket?) has twin fuel tanks, each holding half-a-million gallons of fuel. "The children of today are tyrants. They contradict their parents,
gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." A divorce court in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, awarded the family home to the two kids (age 11 and 13), allowing the mother three weeks visitation a month and the father one week. A university creative writing class was asked to write a concise news
report containing the following elements: Religion, Royalty, Sex, Mystery.
The prizewinner wrote: Ex-Marine Stanley Heiserman, 41, pleaded guilty in Allentown, PA, to six convenience store robberies, four of which he pulled off while naked. Heiserman told police that during a previous stint at robbery, he had been identified by his clothing and was determined not to let that happen again. Re. measuring by meters or yards: a mix-up caused the loss of the $125 million Mars Orbiter. One set of engineers used metrics. The other used pounds and feet, causing the space-craft to break up and burn up as it swung around Mars. First answering machine speaks: Hi! John's answering machine is broken. This is his refrigerator. Please speak very slowly and I'll stick your message to myself with one of these magnets. HEADLINES: Second answering machine speaks: Hello, this is Sally's microwave. Her answering machine just eloped with her tape deck so I'm stuck with taking her calls. If you want anything cooked while you leave your message, just hold it up to the phone. emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the australian coat-of-arms for that reason Third answering machine speaks: Please leave a message. However, you have the right to remain silent. Everything you say will be recorded and will be used by us … a giant squid has the largest eyes in the world by the time he was released from prison in 1990, after 27 years behind bars, nelson mandela could no longer cry. during his detention on robben island, the notorious penal colony 40 minutes across the water from capetown, mandela worked in a limestone quarry. day after day, he and other political prisoners were forced to hack into a wall of earth with picks and shovels. the sun's glare off the white limestone was blinding, the heat brutal. many prisoners ended up with permanently impaired vision. mandela's eyes were rendered incapable of producing tears. photographers are still forbidden to use a flash to take his picture. *(SOCRATES said that.)
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By Dec 8 2004 the population of the planet will have grown by 72 million
people. Every ten seconds the USA population increases by one person.
Worldwide, the elderly population is increasing by about 800,000
a month. The population of the world will hit seven billion in 2013
and 9 billion by 2048.
THE STATE OF THE EARTH: 