Collegians Smoking Hookahs ... Filled With Tobacco

I love this guy (talk about BS):

 

"The hookah is 3,500 years old, it's part of culture, it's part of religion, and everyone loves it," he said. "I'm not going to give up."

 

Collegians Smoking Hookahs ... Filled With Tobacco

What If You Couldn't Sell?

What If You Couldn't Sell?

Short, but interesting.

Not Out of the Woods Just Yet

“OUR forests are the heart of our environmental support system. And yet, in the 36 years that have passed since the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, we have lost more than one billion acres of forest, with no end in sight.” Full Article.

Lingerie makes hagglers happy-go-lucky

Lingerie makes hagglers happy-go-lucky

Human Rights Association Critical of Police Handling of Child Murder Investigation

Human Rights Association Critical of Police Handling of Child Murder Investigation

Fool's School

 A good starting point: Fool’s School.

Qathafi Speaks!

The guy is unbelievable! http://www.alarabiya.net/Article.aspx?v=22754

FW: Enjoy the coffee

Very nice message, I thank my friend Ali Al-Saif for forwarding it to me.

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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

 

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

 

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

 

So please, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee

 

The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order

The person taking your order at the drive-thru may be 250 miles away! Check this out.

Brain's Darwin Machine

Brain's Darwin Machine

Scientists find evidence of a perpetual evolutionary battle in the mind. The process, they suspect, is the key to individuality.

 

Inside the strategy of Soros and Buffett

Here’s an interesting way of looking at both and finding similarities, instead of difference.

How I Work: Bill Gates

How I Work: Bill Gates

Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business.

 

Judas Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel

Judas Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel

A document from the year 300 portrays him as Jesus' closest friend, who carried out the betrayal only because Christ asked him to.

 

 

When nobody knows whether something is banned...

Unwritten rules are common in Saudi Arabia. The blurring of ads on billboards is one example. Here’s an interesting article.

Traits of Successful Money Managers

Very interesting article.

“Even when the underlying motive of purchase [of common stocks] is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent logic and good sense.”

 

--Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, 1940.

First Bladders Grown in Lab Transplanted

A significant milestone!

Jim Hightower

“If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”

 

-- Jim Hightower, Activist and former Texas Agriculture Commissioner.