This is sickening:
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article2496657.ece

"You know what you should do....eat, drink, and travel as expensively as possible and write it all off as business expenses!" -Dad

I am sitting at home watching the first snow and looking at pictures of Russia.
Wouldn't you like a big extravagant fur hat?

Listening to jazz and thinking of beautiful Susan at the bottom of Lake Baikal...

In the morgue of her desire
she pens her fiction as fact.

raised fists.
the color of shriveled apricots.
pound out an industrial dawn
on a horizon
stretched taut
like the skin of Adam.

On their website family.org, Focus on the Family bemoans the evils of secular universities: feminist activists, minority activists, and what is delicately referred to as "diversity."

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On a brighter note, visit http://data.aolsearchlogs.com for hours of fun.

A catastrophe which can occur for four control factors and one behavior axis. The butterfly catastrophe is the universal unfolding of the singularity f(x)==x^6 of codimension 4, i.e., with four unfolding parameters. It has the form F(x,u,v,w,t)==x^6+ux^4+vx^3+wx^2+tx.

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quantum cryptography based on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle-
an abstract: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000096000007070501000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes