Today many parents panic if their child gets a tattoo at some point in their life. Many think of it as a degrading practice that symbolizes rebellion. But it should be remembered that tattooing was and is an art that came naturally to various native peoples for hundreds of years. Tattooing has been a native [...]

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Rising fuel costs has become a big headache for car or motorcycle owners all over the world. And with rising fuel price, bicycles are back in fashion. There are lots of reports that people are going back to bicycles to move between short distances. In some cases people are sharing cars in their way to [...]

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I went home to a family reunion in December. Normally stories of this nature conjure images of either loving parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings, laughing and loving, or the opposite image of squabbling relatives, all wondering why they had traveled such great distances only to spend the holidays in abject misery.Not so in my case. [...]

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The northeast corridor got clobbered by heavy snow and ice this week, leaving many parts of the New York City metropolitan area without power for several days. Our tiny town was no exception; most of Ridgefield was without electricity all day Wednesday. Extended empathy for victims of Katrina and last year’s Asian tsunami immediately bubbled [...]

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Copyright (c) 2008 Deborah KlingerKnown as the city that never sleeps; you will need to have at least seven days in New York City if you want a real taste of what it has to offer the visitor. One of the busiest visitor locations in the city is the Empire State Building and even if [...]

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As the weather gets cooler and your lightweight summer maternity clothes are no longer warm enough for chilly mornings and evening, you know it is time to go shopping. If this is your first pregnancy, chances are there is nothing in your closet you can wear as pre-pregnancy clothes stop fitting by the 2nd trimester, [...]

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