We're all well versed on the concept of growing a business. You come up with an idea or product, refine it, take it to market, then market and advertise and grow your sales, etc. Ideally, you have more people wanting what you're selling and as demand goes up, you start making more.
Jack Finney's novel Time And Again is a marvelous read with a unique plot told in an engaging first-person narrative. Simon Morely, an artist working in advertising in New York City, meets a U.S. Army officer named Ruben Prien. Prien tells Morely all about a unique project he is working on related to time travel, one done via hypnosis. Intrigued, Morely thinks it over and decides to take part.
As someone who has lived in the United States for most of my life, I have to admit that I spend very little time thinking about Canada. At one point I lived near the northern border of Minnesota, and also in Alaska, but as for spending physical or mental time there? Not really.
Lately the Keystone Pipeline project has been all over the U.S. news. The Keystone Pipeline would send synthetic crude oil from Canada down through several refinery hubs in the U.S. and end in Texas near Houston.
It sounds shocking, but it's true: In America, we have one of the least safe food supply chains in the world. The food that is being sold to us is making us sick at far greater rates than any other industrialized nation. We don't even realize it, but our food is contaminated like crazy.
Personally, when I travel across the
Though he won’t admit it, Bernard Lagat of the United States may be attempting to break a world record this weekend at the Millrose Games in New York. Already having set a record of seven wins in the Millrose Mile, Lagat, fresh off a 7:34 3,000M win, is in killer shape.
“American? Obama, Obama, Obama!” If you've ever been to Indonesia and you are from the United States, you've definitely heard this chant before. As well as seeing how much Indonesians love Obama, you’ll also be told a few times daily how Obama went to school in Java (true fact). While the love and conversation can be quite nice, hearing positive things about your country of origin isn't often abundant. The good ol’ USA doesn't always stir positive emotions in others while traveling.
The intensity of emotion following the attacks of 9/11 led to some surprising changes in the way the
Fear - it’s one of the things that keeps human beings alive. This natural response has been working its magic ever since we first evolved the capacity to think. We may not like it, but without our ability to be frightened, the human species would almost certainly be extinct by now. But fear is something that we don’t enjoy.
