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How to Find Free Shipping Online Retailers
I buy a lot of things online. I like the convenience of having large objects — a lawnmower, reams of paper — delivered to my door. I like to avoid the hassle of running around malls looking for the perfect pair of boots. What I do not like is paying for shipping and handling. more »
Culture Watch - What We Aren't Told and That Salandar Woman
Two trilogies: Women write about what they wish they had known earlier. These discussions are about how the fact of being female makes the lives of women differ from the lives of men at a deeper level.Our Stieg Larsson reviewer was suspicious and too stubborn to believe that anything so popular could be so good; she finds otherwise. more »
To Read and To Write
Joan L. Cannon writes: POETRY is a big word, in both denotation and connotation. Hours of classroom time and reams of thesis papers have been wasted in the attempt to analyze, categorize, classify, and define it. Rhyme, rhythm, diction, subject ... since before written language, from nonsense through ritual and history, folk songs, epics, in all languages, the list of schools and variations in form is too long to contemplate. However many attempts are made, full agreement is not likely. more »
Pew Reports: The Tea Party, Religion and Social Issues
A poll by the Pew Research Center and Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46%) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about "the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right" more »