Category Archives: rural

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Coming to a subdivision near you

08-08-15 – 01:07:am

AJC (Schwartz, “Drug Violence in Atlanta Tied to Several Cartels,” 31 July ’08): “Powerful Mexican cartels have assumed control of drug distribution networks throughout the United States, sparking worry from U.S. law enforcement and experts that they may export the same violent methods that have ravaged Mexico for years.” Kidnapping, for example. Vast tracts of [...]

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Great idea, Bob, let’s do a study

08-06-30 – 12:01:pm

A math whiz says math is the first step to solving colony collapse disorder:

Using the data from the inspectors’ survey, we can assume that one-third of 150,000 colonies die off over the course of six months. Supposing that during the same time the number of infected but not yet collapsed colonies declines (as it would [...]

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“Matching luggage” and “residential units”

08-05-10 – 06:10:pm

“Matching luggage” means overstuffed garbage full of someone’s life, and “residential units” means someone trying to live in a self-storage space—according to Fred Reger, auctioneer and ironist. This from an NYT story about self-storage sites auctioning off the property of people who’ve defaulted on their storage rental fees. “U-Store-It’s stock is up 33 percent this [...]

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