Marijuana may now be legal in Colorado, said Jordan Weissmann, but do purchasers really know what they’re buying? New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd highlighted that problem last week by describing what happened when she went to Denver to sample edible marijuana. Dowd ate too much of a weed-laced candy bar, which had no dosing instructions, and spent eight hours […]
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“Through her example, may [Most Holy Mary] encourage you to be in the new millennium announcers of hope, love and peace.” – Pope Francis
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” – Napoleon Hill
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Prague, Okla Tremors from fracking: Scientists have linked Oklahoma’s largest earthquake—a 5.6 magnitude quake near the town of Prague, in 2011—to hydraulic fracturing, supporting claims that the process increases seismic activity. Fracking, as it is known, injects water and chemicals into petroleum deposits in order to extract trapped gas. This week, researchers at the University of Oklahoma, Columbia University, and […]
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” – Lorraine Hansberry
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“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
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“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.” – Robert Bloch
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“Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.” – Stephen Levine
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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
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