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Is Socialism Bad For America? ... I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration...

Spabeautyschools.com Featured School Of The Week June 4, 2007: Beauty Schools Of America ... We do what it takes to get them (students) engaged to make the best students can be." While all training programs result in diplomas, there are various subjects of study from which to choose: If hair styling is your niche, then Beauty Schools of America provides a comprehensive 1,200-hour cosmetology program...

Is This The Future We Have We Have Coming? ... The first strike comes from Asia. For the past six months, the new government of Japan has sought to revise a 2006 agreement to relocate a Marine Corps Air Station from one part of Okinawa to a less populated area...

Vw Takes Diesel Racing To North America ... The first ever all-diesel powered racing series will hit the tracks in 2008 with the formation of the Jetta TDI Cup, sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Pro Racing department, said Motorsport...

Make It Fit America Inc. Offers Virtually Free Fitness Service To All Mississippi Residents ... "A membership to MAKE IT FIT™ is normally priced at $14.95 per month," said Principal Stacy Bick.  "Offering it almost free to an entire state is an unprecedented event for us, but one we feel is essential to our ultimate goal of helping Americans improve their physical fitness and better manage their weight." "We are also offering the businesses and corporations in Mississippi a special discount for signing up for MAKE IT FIT™ Corporate plans," said Rebecca Johnson, co-owner and principal of MAKE IT FIT™.  "We have unique corporate packages that provide an affordable way for companies to include MAKE IT FIT™ in their employee wellness programs, thereby keeping employees more physically fit and reducing costs related to productivity and healthcare." ...

Love At First Strike-baseball In Latin America ... The Spaniards assumed that the baseball practice and teams were just a cover-up for the preparation to go to war. Throughout the Caribbean region, Cuban players spread their newfound knowledge which increased the popularity of the game...

Bondurant-area Businesses Come Together To Help Wounded War On Terror Veterans ... Corporal Donny Daughenbaugh, US Marine Corps (Ret.) and Specialist BJ Jackson, Iowa National Guard (Ret.), area veterans, will be in attendance. While deployed to Iraq in 2004, Donny was shot in the face by insurgents, and the bullet lodged so close to his brain that doctors were not able to remove it...

The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in america were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the american. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind—men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh—who founded the English colonies in america.
—J.F.C. Fuller (1878–1966)

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in america signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic—I mean my motion.
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

Whoever the last true cowboy in america turns out to be, he’s likely to be an Indian.
—William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)