Zippos - Keeping America Lighted for Decades

Zippos are not just lighters. Over the years, they have become iconic symbols of a breed of men and a lifestyle. Rolling Stone Keith Richards keeps a Zippo close to his guitar. In countless Hollywood movies, heroes and villains alike use Zippos to light cigarettes, burn ropes and documents, ignite fuses, or find their way through pitch-black caves and moss-covered caves.

Gas Suppliers Stockpile Consumers Cash

This article looks at the way in which gas suppliers are stockpiling their customers' cash, potentially earning ?514.5m per annum.

I Cannot Hear Another Refugee Story Today

I cannot hear another refugee story today. My heart is filled with so much emotion for the suffering children of Africa and the world's poor and displaced. So we too. have become another voice for calling action to solutions. If you are a super hero, no matter your race or religion you will answer this call to alleviate poverty and disease.

Investigation and Privatization

Security Management is described as essential part of the business operations in big companies as well as medium size enterprises today. Needless to say that success of business depends highly on many aspects of company's procedures and policies in security segment, but such segment has to be greatly supported by the company's executives. The articles claims that the key to effective security functioning is in advocacy that has to be sought in those who make final decisions especially in terms of financial assistance. Evidently such approach to this problem is a wise one as it sets a right start for the implementation of security system as a whole in the company.

Forty-Three Million Americans Do Not Have Health Insurance - Uninsured

We have a problem with Health Care costs in the United States, it has gotten too expensive for most people. Recently the subject came up at the Online Think Tank and it was determined that it is economically unfeasible to provide free-health care to all citizens. Indeed a registered nurse asked;

Why Prince William and Kate Were Right to Split

There has been mainly hostile reaction to the shock news of Prince William's split from his girlfriend. But that was a kneejerk reaction to the unexpected surprise. Time will prove that they did the right thing.

Addiction Transfer - Society Duped by Bariatric By-Pass Surgery

Carney Wilson's 1999 mega publicized bariatric by-pass surgery for which she extolled the virtues of the procedure and Al Roker's subsequent surgery and weight loss has propelled this highly risky surgery into surgery du jour. Approximately 140,000 bariatric surgeries have been performed in the United States every year for the past six years.

An Increasing Need for Nurses

The following article discusses the increasing need for nurses. Nurses serve as an integral part of the medical system and in years to come America will suffer a shortage of these professionals unless something is done to reverse the situation.

Society and Culture - The Informational Age

Information technologies demand strong ethics and morality from citizens of this new global empire

Top 7 Tips to Beat High Gas Prices

As we watch the prices rise at the pumps we are becoming more aware that we need to be smarter about the way we use fuel.

Vegetarian Movie Stars - Who Came First?

It seems that every second Hollywood star is a vegetarian, giving up meat for health or moral reasons. Vegetarian societies can now provide long lists of entertainers who don't eat meat, including vegetarians like Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Winslet and Natalie Portman, and pescatarians like Hillary Swank (who eat fish, but no other animals).

California Real Estate Sellers Spared By Governor Schwarzenegger

Sales of secondary residence under California law may pay a whopping 3 1/3% estimated tax of the gross sales price. Find out how California Assembly Bill AB 2962 allows a work-around.

The Future Of War

Will we continue fighting wars forever? Will we destroy ourselves or is there hope for the future? I contend that military action against other nations will increasingly become a less effective method to resolve conflicts.

Black Mesa - A Navajo Sacrifice Area

After thirty years of struggling to stay on their ancestral land, the Navajo (or 'Dine', as they call themselves) are still resisting relocation by the US Government to benefit the Mining Industry. This article discusses the situation as well as the author's personal experience living with two elders caught in the middle of it all.

Concentration Camps - A Brief History of Germanys Darkest Times

An overview of the horrifying concentration camps that took place in Germany during the Hitler era.