Talks of cost savings dominate Pinellas School Board workshop
By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, May 15, 2012 LARGO — Pinellas County school superintendent John Stewart has ordered his staff to temporarily halt business with the auction house that organized a recent school district property sale that raised concerns that the district was getting short-changed. The measure was one in a multipronged approach he believes is necessary to ...
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Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex?
Sex toys have transformed into sophisticated and well-designed gadgets that take their inspiration from Apple not Hustler. But one company has a bigger hope: that a better machine could mean better sex ...
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Asia’s new elite — Shaun Tan
MAY 15 — “Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two; one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.” — Plato, The Republic It can be said that the walls around gated communities mark the borders of a foreign country. Of course, not all exclusive neighbourhoods are surrounded by walls — many are not — ...
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A brand-new Sarah Palin headache
Don’t look now, but her candidate might be on the verge of a huge upset in Nebraska today
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Where Do Real US Jobs Come From?
What kind of crackpot system do we have...where the president can create jobs ...like the Fed creates money...out of thin air? Of course, we know the answer, the new jobs are just like the new money; they're not real.
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