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The Supreme Court: Another Blow For Women’s Rights
Jul 12, 2016
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Women and society as a whole had a great day recently, when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that regulated abortion clinics so stringently, the rules would have run them out of business. (Blog 6/30/15) Texas insisted the regulation was intended to protect women’s heal
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Bio-Electronics May Be The Answer To Drugs, Pain and Cost
Jul 08, 2016
We’ve all heard the commercials promoting prescription drugs. Take a pill to reduce a headache but the side effect could cause a heart attack. Not only is the pharmaceutical approach to illness, risky, but the cost of the drugs can be astronomical. One company, Glaxo-Smith-Kline
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Food Boards, Gag Laws and Mayonnaise
Jul 07, 2016
Who knew there are 14 food boards, presumably regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that receive a billion dollars in taxpayer money to promote agri-business? Who knew these funds were used to stifle negative information about the quality of food products? Agricultural ga
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Don’t Cry For Us, Venezuela: New Experiments With Wealth Distribution
Jul 06, 2016
More than once, I’ve shared concerns that technology is reducing the number of jobs in our society and allowing money to pool in the hands of billionaires who use it to make decisions better left to the community. My solution is to disrupt the money pool and allow it to flow to
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Alzheimer’s: Some News But More Mystery
Jul 05, 2016
The latest research on Alzheimer’s hasn’t pulled back many veils about the disease but it has uncovered a few puzzling facts. For example, some people who have the neuron-killing tangles associated with the illness, never display symptoms. Others aren’t so lucky. To explain
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Self-Driving Cars: Are They Already Retrograde?
Jul 01, 2016
I’ve been eating Spinach and doing yoga exercises in the hope of living long enough to see a self-driving car. But yesterday, I woke up to learn my aspirations are way behind the curve. More likely, I’ll see flying cars before self-driving ones. Believe it or not, the tech
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U.S.A: The World’s Biggest Debtor And the Long Bond
Jun 30, 2016
This campaign season, the voter hasn’t heard much about government debt, probably because, not only is the subject boring, but it is also depressing. According to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek, “The U. S. government is the world’s biggest debtor…” (“Why the U.
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The Long And Short Of It: Women’s High Fasion
Jun 29, 2016
While I’m standing at the lunch counter at the retirement center, a woman whom I’ve known for several years greeted me with surprise. Had I grown and inch or two she wondered. By her recollection, she’d always been taller than I. She was right, of course. But age had don
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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