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Muammar Gaddafi, Hillary Clinton And The U. S. Dollar
Jun 14, 2016
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Much has been said about Hillary Clinton’s support for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Some say she supported the action because she is “hawkish.” But why overthrow a leader who’d started to cooperate with Europe and the United States? On the surface, the poli
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Number of Women In Plus Sizes Growing: Will Retail Follow?
Jun 13, 2016
I have a confession. Since I joined the retirement center, I’ve gained 6 lbs. My doctor didn’t seem alarmed. “A little extra weight as a person gets older is good,” she shrugged. Easy for her to say. She doesn’t have to fit into my jeans. Some extra pounds might be t
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The 2016 Election: How to Get From Disagreement To Unity
Jun 10, 2016
The central question for the upcoming election is: “How would the candidate, as President, bring our country together around a common vision for where we need to go as a nation and how we can get there?” (“Stop Fighting, Start Fixing,” by Jon Huntsman Jr. and Joe Lieberman,
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When Stephen Hawking Speaks Humans Should Listen
Jun 09, 2016
Thinking about Artificial Intelligence, Stephen Hawking warns, “One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” (“The End of Code,” by Jason Tanz,
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Jun 08, 2016
A friend of mine was driving along a freeway one dark and stormy night when she was overcome by a fear that forced her off the highway. Except for the pounding rain, nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Still she was so upset, she asked the friend with her to drive them hom
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Overwhelming Questions And A Simple Answer
Jun 07, 2016
As technology shrinks our world, rubbing differing cultures together with the force of colliding tectonic plates, human beings are facing an overwhelming question: Is it better “to give wide freedoms to differing subcultures to live as they wish, or to assert a universal standard of
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Word Processing: Who Knew Its Fascinating History?
Jun 06, 2016
I sometimes marvel at the subjects some authors choose to explore. Take, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschbaum. (“Word Perfect,” by Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, June 2016, pgs. 71-73.) How large, I wonder, is the audience that
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Ballet Noir press release May 30, 2106
Jun 03, 2016
PRUnderground Press Release – May 30, 2016 – Full release here Fourth Novel From Caroline Miller: Death, Intrigue… Ballet Noir Industry: Book Publishing Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official an
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Dating Via The Internet Becoming Too Specialized
Jun 03, 2016
Several years ago, I had a male acquaintance who, depressed after his divorce, joined a dating service on the internet. He enrolled in more than one, in fact, as they were free. Once he’d signed up, images of blonde babes lit up his cell phone, so many, that when we met for coffee
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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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