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Getting Your Retirement Organization Started: 6 Tips
Given the diversity of higher education institutions and organizational cultures, there are many ways of beginning a retirement organization to support the needs and interests of each campus. A few tips for getting started, from our experience, might stimulate your thinking. Tip #1. Join AROHE! This organization is a vital source of information and contacts with…
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Painless facelift Imagine, attaining a face lift, snug eye and neck contour, firmer jowl line, less noticeable skin discolouration and open pores, and super boost skin hydration and vitality — all within the very first session of a Power Lift Facolift Series’ facelift therapy. Besides 100% safe, one experiences strengthening of the skin to reduce…
Read MoreNowhere is global warming felt more acutely than in the Himalayas, where ice and snow are retreating
Melting capsNowhere is global warming felt more acutely than in the Himalayas, where ice and snow are retreating. By SAM TAYLOR STANDING in the Himalayan valley of Langtang, Rinjin Dorje Lama remembers where he used to play as a child in the 1960s. “When I was a kid, it was a lot longer,” said Lama,…
Read MoreTrash is not always wasted. It can be recycled or even turned into educational exhibits.
Trash on showTrash is not always wasted. It can be recycled or even turned into educational exhibits. By DAVE COLLINS IN a waterfront industrial area near the Bridgeport line in Stratford, Connecticut, the trucks keep dumping trash and the school buses keep dumping children. Eight-year-old Matt Carlucci is in awe as soon as he walks…
Read MoreA British-based firm insisted for years that its tanker was not to blame for poisoning thousands in West Africa
Toxic ShipmentA British-based firm insisted for years that its tanker was not to blame for poisoning thousands in West Africa. Now proof of its lethal cargo has emerged.By DAVID LEIGH and AFUA HIRSCH ON a July day in 2006, workers at the port in Amsterdam began their usual task of removing “slop” from a ship…
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Starting fromApr 8,m t3, the Curve – one of Malaysia’s first pedestrlan~sed lifestyle shopping mall -will be transformed into the ultimate urban oasis dedicated entirely to beauty, health and relaxation. With a unique Zen theme, the Curve will oe decorated with a backdrop of healing stones, running water and plants to create a harmonious and…
Read MoreA new road near Taman Negara may well be built at the expense of wildlife and their habitat
The road to ruin -A new road near Taman Negara may well be built at the expense of wildlife and their habitat.By TAN CHENG LI IT would shorten the route by a mere 6.6km – probably 10 minutes of driving -but the new alignment of a stretch of road near Gua Musang, Terengganu, will eat…
Read MoreLost wilderness – yet another tract of forest will be sacrificed for dams and timber.
Tourist attraction: the damming of Sungai Tembat will mean that the popular Tembat waterfalls will be no more An expanse of green in the upper reaches of Terengganu, home to countless species of wildlife, including the highly endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, will soon be no more. It is being logged and will eventually be flooded for…
Read MorePlanet Keepers – Six campaigners winthe environmental world’s ‘Nobels’.
Planet KeepersSix campaigners winthe environmental world’s ‘Nobels’.By PETER GRIFFITHS FROM the rainforests of Africa to the mountain-top coal mines of West Virginia, six campaigners who have fought governments and industry to protect the planet won prestigious Goldman Environmental Prizes recently. The awards, often referred to as the Nobel Prizes of the environmental world, went to…
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