July 5th, 2010 
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Oregonians near end of jobless benefits
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregonians by the thousands are using up the last of their unemployment benefits, many after as long as two years. So far this year, more than 14,000 Oregonians have run out of jobless benefits, the state Employment Department reported Friday. That includes about 3,000 people drawing benefits from a temporary state extension that ends the week of July 4. By November, the …
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February 24th, 2010 admin
Jobless Bank On Their Best Resource: Time
Local residents are finding creative ways to put something other than money in the bank. Instead, they are banking time. Cambridge’s Time Trade Circle allows members to do work for someone, bank that time, and then cash in that time on a service provided by another member.
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December 29th, 2009 admin
according to a leading authority on global warming. In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the worlds resources. A vegetarian diet is better. Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas. Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review …
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