February 2011
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The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More... →
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JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food stamps, the more profits JP Morgan makes. Yes, you read that correctly. When...
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“FLASH: Google says has launched service for people in Egypt to send Twitter...”
– @Reuters (via brooklynmutt)
A+, Google.
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New vice president announced, [being sworn in now]... →
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Wikipedia has been amazingly speedy to update:
Lieutenant General Omar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر سليمان) (born July 2, 1936) is the current Vice-President of Egypt, and was formally a Minister without portfolio and director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID), the national intelligence agency of Egypt. He has been in office since 1993. In his role as director of EGID,...
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via bitchville)
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25 commandments for journalists →
goldman:
Bookmarked.
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America's 50 most powerful people in food
In the food world, the people with power are the ones who affect what and how and where and why we eat — or who can, if they want to. They’re the agribusiness moguls who decide what gets grown and how it gets harvested and sold; the representatives of major food processing, distribution concerns, and retail food outlets who create new products and service the demand for edibles old and...
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washingtonpoststyle:
RIP Sargent Shriver.
And for anyone who is confused as to how he fit in with the Kennedy Clan, we offer this family tree that our illustrator Patterson Clark cooked up back in 2009.
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“The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as...”
– Sargent Shriver
Colman McCarthy - Sargent Shriver: A life of grace
(via apsies)
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Restaurant Week: Is it worth it? Chefs and servers...
Generally, restaurants embrace the opportunity for more business. But Restaurant Week is a different beast. Ask some servers and chefs how they feel about it, and they’ll tell you it sucks.
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American schools are more segregated by race and... →
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kateoplis:
The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and...
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WatchOn Saturday night, Sambonn Lek, head bartender at the legendary Town & Country Lounge, where he’s worked since Gerald Ford was president, will don his white shirt, red tie and black vest, stand behind the bar, and make some of the best sidecars around, along with even better small talk. - Washington Post What an amazing and charismatic person.
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