Archive for April 12th, 2007
What if Don Imus was a rapper?
In the five days since he referred to members of the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team, as “nappy-headed hos,” Don Imus has apologized so many times I’ve lost count. For some people, in particular Al Sharpton, no amount of “sorries” can make up for what he said. Sharpton along with Jesse Jackson and number of others [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2007 under What If - Misc..
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What if you could contribute to cancer research?
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What if there were no satellite images?
Google is using its popular on-line mapping service to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.
In a project with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, inaugurated Tuesday, the Internet search company has updated its Google Earth service with high resolution satellite images of the region to document destroyed villages, displaced people and [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2007 under Life Stories.
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What if you took a 4000 mile taxi ride?
Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don’t drive, and they don’t want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
Their solution: “Hey, cabbie.”
They met taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his cab after a shopping trip several weeks ago.
They [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2007 under Life Stories.
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What if there were no cell phones?
By the time daylight climbed over Oregon’s central coast sand dunes Saturday, Dennis Pease was thoroughly freaked out.
His 38-year-old wife, Debi, who has diabetes, had phoned home late Friday night from her new job at the Three Rivers Casino in Florence complaining that her blood sugar was falling. She was disoriented, confused.
Dennis had made her [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2007 under Survival.
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