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Caribbean Isle Bans Cell Phones on the Sand {Switched.com}
Aug 30th 2007 1:20PM Some of us "losers" who travel on business need to be in contact with our children, elderly relatives and their caretakers as well as our managers if we're away. If one of my kids gets sick while I'm at a conference, I don't want to know about it a week later when I get home and find the baby's in the hospital just because beachgoers want to get pissy about me talking in public. I'll keep my conversation quiet if you leave me alone.
Airline CEO Mistakenly Hits "Reply All," Blasts Customer {News Bloggers}
Aug 29th 2007 2:34PM One of my best friends got fired a few months ago over a similar e-mail snafu except, well... the last line of a personal email he was sending someone he was trying to date somehow jumped onto his work e-mail and got sent out, so the entire nationwide company knew he wanted to lick her @$$hole!
Bottled water report {Slashfood}
Jun 29th 2006 1:33AM It's the same concept as organically grown foods -- you don't completely eradicate your chances of ingesting a pesticide when you eat organic, you just stack the odds more heavily in your favor, reducing the amount of ingested pesticides in your diet.
Taste is probably the major factor in why people choose bottled over tap, especially in certain metropolitan areas (and some small burgs a la the one mentioned above from "Erin Brockovich"), but even in metro areas where the water runs RELATIVELY clean, there is the additional concern of individual households whose piping may be aged, leaching heavy metals (e.g. LEAD) and other chemicals into the home's water supply.
In addition, several strains of giardia protozoa have been found in relative abundance in tap water and in far greater amounts in well, stream and other "natural" sources of water.
BTW, I was raised on bottled water from birth. My family, until recently, subscribed to Arrowhead, so there was little to no bottle waste from water in our house. Even now, we reuse our bottles as often as we can and recycle those that we don't. As far as cost, we don't buy those little 8-, 16-, 20-, or 32-ounce bottles except in a pinch -- generally, we buy gallon bottles (at no more than $1.69 each AT MOST) to keep in the car so we won't HAVE to buy water that's more expensive than gas.
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