Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy New Year!

Some items to share:
Best New Year's Resolution? A 'Stop Doing' List by Jim Collins.

Secrets of Weight Loss Revealed! A little is easy, a lot is hard...

Sinus problems? Wash them away. Via Instapundit.

In a safer Baghdad, Iraqis party for 2008

U.S. Special Forces On Standby To Safeguard Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal

General Petraeus: man with a message of hope

The fact that there will be no demonstrations against environmentally destructive divorcees, who probably emit as much extra carbon dioxide as the average SUV, suggests that the desire to save the planet is not nearly as powerful as the desire to destroy a way of life. Theodore Dalrymple.

"Over a span of nearly 200 years, about 2,000 people, from lost children to Napoleon's soldiers, were rescued because of the heroic dogs' uncanny sense of direction and resistance to cold."

An exclusive list of 28 places the Smithsonian reader might wish to visit before ...it's too late.

A Natural History of Terrible Things: a story of war and the Warsaw zoo. I am reading this book, and it is beautifully written. The Zabinskis deserved their place as the righteous among the nations.

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